Queuing for entry, they're corralled by impassive ticket collectors (two of the dancers) into a holding pen close by the door.
Instead he has been acting as though millions of Bulgarians and Romanians will be queueing for entry as soon as the restrictions are lifted, confident that they will spring to the top of the jobs, housing and welfare queues.
Street style isn't huge in the Peruvian capital, but here fashionable young Limeans are queuing for entry; clothes lean towards black, while at least three people brighten the queue with neon dyed hair.
And on the fourth day, with 20,000 packed into the disorderly old palace complex where it is held, and the queues for entry still growing, the police abruptly closed the gates.
It also helped to establish his country's place at the head of the queue for entry to Nato and the EU, and to give weight to his wider advocacy of central Europe's special place at the heart, not the edge of Europe, and the Czech lands, once "the spiritual crossroads of Europe", as the place where that heart beat strongest.
There were two queues for entry, one for ticket holders, the other for non-ticket holders.
There, soldiers confiscate food, baby milk and medicine and at times refuse entry even to people who have queued for hours.
They queued for space on a plane even at night.
Hundreds of distinguished observers queued each day for entry to the court.
San Franciscans seem happy to queue for anything up to two hours for entry into the city's most popular brunch spots.
