Great Ball of Dawn 2019 – Forli

Great Ball of Dawn 2019 – Forli

Great Ball of Dawn 2019 Saturday 23 November at Palazzo Albicini, the clubhouse of the Art, the Società di Danza – Circolo di Romagna also organized this year the Grand Ball of Dawn. For the Bolognese associates the event has become an eagerly awaited event, which they wish to participate in large numbers. The dance takes its name from the fresco of Charles Cignani depicting the Aurora present in the ballroom. For nearly three hours, in richly frescoed rooms, in the light of the beautiful chandelier that adorns the hall magnificently, the many dancers had fun taking turns in Waltz, mazurke, quadrilles, country dances and marches. The dances were accompanied by the sound of the piano and ...

September – October 2019 They resume the dances

September – October 2019 They resume the dances

Finally incorporate the dances – With the arrival of autumn, throughout Italy take up the courses for members of the Società di Danza. After the summer break, it is a pleasure to gather together to reshare moments of learning and growth. The dancers of the Bologna group have started the new dance season with participation in the Grape Festival that takes place annually in the town of Castenaso. Thursday 12 September, at the invitation of the municipality itself, They participated with a dance to line the festival opening night, in the central Piazza Bassi. It’ It was an opportunity, for members of Bologna, to review the dances in view of the Grand Ball Risorgimento in Piazza Minghetti. The evening ...

Gran Ballo Risorgimentale in Piazza Minghetti

Gran Ballo Risorgimentale in Piazza Minghetti

Saturday 21 September Minghetti Square was transformed into a beautiful ballroom. The nineteenth-century buildings that surround it are the perfect setting of the Grand Ball Risorgimento, organized to celebrate 160 years of the Assembly's declaration of Romagna, that in September 1859 Bologna, under the chairmanship of Marco Minghetti, Bologna protagonist of the history of the Italian Risorgimento, proclaimed he no longer wants the papal temporal power, proposing the annexation to the future Kingdom of Italy, that led to the next plebiscite of March 1860. Below, the beautiful article by Bologna Today "We the representatives of the peoples of Romagna, gathered in General Assembly, appellandone of God ...

Great Ball at Rocchetta Mattei 2019

Great Ball at Rocchetta Mattei 2019

Rocchetta Mattei 2019 Saturday 15 June, always in the fantastic setting of the Rocchetta Mattei, for the third consecutive year, the Company of Dance Bolognese achieved a Grand Ball Ottocentesco in one of the most evocative of the Bolognese historic homes. At the invitation of the municipality of Grizzana Morandi, the Grand Ball was organized at the opening of an extraordinary evening, during which they were made tours which allowed to attend the event. The Grand Ball Ottocentesco is designed to pay tribute to the historical period in which the Rocchetta Mattei achieved fame and beauty that still preserves. The Grand Ballroom in the nineteenth century were the high point of social life town and pl ...

School Farini – 'Ball and rookies 2019

School Farini –

School Farini 2019 School Farini – With great expectations, even this year, for the fifth consecutive, at the end of year party which was held Tuesday 5 June, the students of the third middle school classes L. C. Farini have achieved the Grand Ball and rookies. In this edition participated 80 school pupils, who were divided into two groups of 40. In only four practice afternoons, actually two afternoons per group, winning their natural shyness and reluctance, the boys have experienced a new way of being together, sneaking in various kinds of nineteenth-century tradition of social dances. It does not seem, but at this age, shake hands without laughing is not a gesture ...