Ball (dance)
A ball is a formal dance occasion. By formal is meant: people were invited, wore their best clothes ('evening attire'), and the ball was held in a splendid ballroom. In former times everyone danced, but only the wealthy went to balls. Girls had dance cards: men had to sign up to dance with them. Older people sat around the sides and watched the younger people dance. It was a society occasion.
Galleria
- Apsley1908 72.jpg
A ball at Apsley House. Shows King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra dancing a quadrille, 1908.
- The ballroom at Eglinton Castle.JPG
Ball at Eglington Castle 1839
- Almack's Assembly Rooms inside.jpg
Almack's Assembly Rooms, London, about 1820.
- MardiGrasBall1930sWPA.jpeg
Mardi Gras Ball, 1930s
- Wedding ball of the Duc de Joyeuse, 1581.JPG
Wedding ball of the Duc de Joyeause, 1581. Attributed to Herman van der Mast.
Sheet music cover
- Ball de tarda.jpg
Bal de Tarda by Ramon Casas i Carbó, 1896
- William Hogarth 035.jpg
by William Hogarth, 1745
- Palacio San Martin ballroom.jpg
Palacio San Martín, Buenos Aires
- The Royal York.jpg
Ballroom of the Fairmont Royal York Hotel, Toronto
- Casa Canals, Tarragona.jpg
Ballroom of the Canals family mansion, Tarragona
- Catherine Palace ballroom.jpg
The ballroom of the Catherine Palace, near St Petersburg
Ball (dance) Media
- Wilhelm Gause Hofball in Wien.jpg
Two ladies are presented to Emperor Franz Joseph at a ball in the Hofburg Imperial Palace, painting by Wilhelm Gause (1900)
- Ball at 20s by Kardovsky.jpg
A ball at the Russian imperial court in the 1910s
- Linna-Stormbom-1968.jpg
A Finnish author Väinö Linna (left) and his translator Nils-Börje Stormbom (right) in the middle of a ball at the 1968 Independence Day reception at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, Finland
- Quadrille set five person set colonial ball at the Albert Hall.jpg
Five partner dance at a Colonial Ball in the Albert Hall Canberra (circa 2016) (sepia)