Historical clue formulations

• Dance for flexible people — 2026-06-02
• Kind of bar that's hard to pass — 2025-10-24
• Competition favoring flexible contestants — 2022-05-31
• Contest described by 19-, 30-/41- and 51-Across — 2020-12-09
• Reason to lower the bar — 2020-08-13
• Something to bend over backward for — 2019-06-04
• Middle state — 2017-12-06
• Bad state to be in — 2017-11-04
• Gray area — 2017-02-22
• Bar entertainment? — 2015-11-05
• First circle of hell in Dante's "Inferno" — 2012-08-12
• Neither-here-nor-there state — 2008-09-17
• Dance at a bar? — 2004-12-22
• Transitional state — 2002-12-19
• It's neither here nor there — 1998-01-09
• Chubby Checker's "____ Rock" — 1995-11-30
• Bar dance? — 1994-10-27
• The lowdown on dancing? — 1993-11-29