Grand Ball of Roses 2019

Grand Ball of Roses 2019 - Here we are in April with the blossoming of the first roses of the year, arrives, Great Ball of Roses to the Officers' Club.

Sunday 14 April at the Salone d'Onore of Palazzo Grassi, Home of the Officers of Bologna, the Società di Danza Bolognese has organized this year, as a pleasant habit, Gran Ballo delle Rose. The name "Grand Ball of Roses" was chosen to recreate an ideal connection with the first Great Dances organized by the Società di Danza between the 1991 and 1993 just in this wonderful hall.

For the occasion, we were privileged to have as guests the National President of the National Federation of Dance Company, Dr.. Fabio Mollica, which first association founder, and National Coordinator Dr. Simonetta Balsamo.

The Gran Ballo delle Rose is a beautiful feast in which the Bolognese members of the Dance Company get together and are pleased to offer hospitality and to share the joy of dancing with friends from other circles of the Dance Company. It 'an opportunity to spend a beautiful Sunday together in a beautiful mansion in the pleasure of dancing.

This year we had the pleasure to have as guests the duo "The Music of the Heart", composed by Antonella Goldsmith, soprano, e Neville Jason Fahy, pianist and, this year, member of the group from Bologna.

For us, they ran the "Love dream" Franz Liszt di, and other pieces by Franz Lehar, Manuel de Falla and T. Sakellaridis.

At the end of the dance we were organized a dinner buffet in the elegant Sala del Cardinale.

Special thanks to all the people who have given us, as always, their help in the preparation of salt.

Program of dances:

Spanish Waltz, Marcia Arlesienne, Quadriglia Charivari, Blue Night Waltz, Parisian Polka Joy, Contr. The Beau Monde, The Mazurka sneer, Quadriglia Csikos, Contraddanza The Revolutions of '48, Waltz Dream of Love, waltzing Flames, Marcia Merry Widow, Quadrille The Gypsy Baron, Waltz Sympathy, Contr. Ambassadors’ Reel, Galop William Tell

as extra Mazurka Mousme