Dancer was my main in XI, and I say it at least once a week to anyone who will listen that I want dancer in XIV.

What made it fun in XI, though, was that it could do a bit of everything and was incredibly versatile, which unfortunately isn't something we really have in XIV. With the defined roles of tank, healer and dps it just wouldnt fit.

I would like to see it be a melee healer though as others mentioned. Thats what it was SUPPOSED to be in 11, but the cooldown on waltzes and shared timers made that difficult, and SE didnt seem to want to relent on that :/ A melee healer who focuses on buffs/debuffs while being up close sounds great.

Somewhat related, since I could see it coming off a class that also branches into thief...lets look at Thancred. I think he states somewhere in game he's a bard but...he's clearly not. We see him leap around and throw daggers. There's also a screenshot for 2.2 that shows him with TWO daggers on his hips, which I dont think he has currently?

Gladiator does have daggers, but since ARR came about, they've been making them less and renaming some. There's plenty of other hints in the game there will be a dual dagger class- just whether this class leads into dancer or not is another matter though.

I could totally see dancer story involving those dancers in uldah and costa not being REAL dancers.