# 68 Wildclickers arranging a ball

shall we dance ~




ok ok - formal wear - brb

whew, all dressed and ready for the ball ~

Stradee-
beautiful dresses.
Dan- uniform, tux or "tails" ?

Waltz- left or right waltz? No, this is not a political question.
Last night's ball was crowded- after 2:30 am you could start really dancing.
Still a bit tired- came home at 6:am.

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Good article from The Guardian, ehBeth. Ul will know all about those places. Well, maybe not the underground jazz places.

Great vintage dresses!

Ul,

I hope you were really swirling after 2:30 a.m.

Nice article- and thankfully they mention only the upscale and most touristy places. Although a late breakfast on the terrace of the Schwarzenberg in summer is marvellous.
Porgy and Bess is a good jazz club.
For experiments you could try different locations- Sargfabrik ( Coffin factory).
The Klimt paintings are still a political issue here- and right so. It is a shame how this was handled by the government.

Sumac, we certainly waltzed as soon as there was enough space on the dancefloor.
A very good (fatburning) exercise.
A Viennese waltz is dances faster than a normal waltz- and there was a time when this dance was thought immoral.


Even as late as 1866 an article in the English magazine Belgravia stated:

"We who go forth of nights and see without the slightest discomposure our sister and our wife seized on by a strange man and subjected to violent embraces and canterings round a small-sized apartment - the only apparent excuse for such treatment being that is done to the sound of music - can scarcely realize the horror which greeted the introduction of this wicked dance."
Source

ha ha ha to that quote, Ul.

Glad that you had a good time.

Mark Twain,1862

"I was exceedingly delighted with the waltz, and also with the polka. These differ in name, but there the difference ceases -- the dances are precisely the same. You have only to spin around with frightful velocity and steer clear of the furniture. This has a charming and bewildering effect. You catch glimpses of a confused and whirling multitude of people, and above them a row of distracted fiddlers extending entirely around the room. The waltz and the polka are very exhilarating -- to use a mild term -- amazingly exhilarating."

Did you do a left or a right waltz? Or both?

Good reporting from Twain.

Left of course- it is Vienna.
Just when you feel dizzy you might try to sneak in some right turns-

President Truman and First Lady are going to a ball in 1952.

g'day all ~

<aw, shucks, have ta stay home from work> A gift from the gods!

The silver birch leaning a bit - the snow heavy on sleeping branches - and the heavenly bamboo all but disappeared from the porch, berries and golden leaves covered in a blanket of snow. Quiet and beautiful - nature sent a spectacular surprise today!

Took some photos of the landscape at 7:00 AM - when all was still quiet, mist gently traveling through the pines - gosh, so pretty!

Kittens all "what is that"! they're not accustomed to the snow staying on the ground - just flurries generally, but not today! hurray!

Glad that you have a winter wonderland. If snow is going to fall, it might as well stick around at some depth and be pretty.

Mardi Gras ... that's Irish, I tink.

Or is it Maude MacGrath I 'ave in moind?

Ah well, not to worry, the dance is the ting, idnit?
At least according to Masthur Yeats ...

O body swayed to music, O brightening glance,
How can we know the dancer from the dance?

Let them but love, then, and leave us the dancing!

Languishing love cannot bear the glad dance.
Let us whirl round in the waltz's gay measure,

And let them steal to the dim-lighted wood.
Let them but love, then, and leave us the dancing!

Languishing love cannot bear the glad dance.

Goethe

I've clicked everything including my heels and am still turning from the twirling. Thanks ladies........

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert ~ Restoration Ball - 1854...

A ball? I can't dance. But if i'm going to make a fool out of myself it might as well be for a good cause.

THE WILDCLICKERS!!!!

woops, no yelling at a Ball.

It's a Mardi Gras ball, Amigo - so shout it out!