Took turns with dancer covering line dance's opening (8)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

L in SALOME D[ance]; although not mentioned by name in the two Biblical accounts that relate the story associated with her (and made famous in works by Wilde and Richard Strauss), Salome’s dancing so pleased her stepdad (one of a fistful of Herods that were doing the rounds at that time – she was the daughter of another) that when he told her he would give her anything she wanted, she consulted her mum (Herodias – naturally enough) and asked for John the Baptist’s head on a platter – as a teenage girl would.  Mum was upset with John for declaring that her marriage to her second Herod was unlawful.