0 a large room that is used for formal dancing --
1 a large room that is used for dancing or other activities --
Most ' modern sequence ' dances are made up from figures that were developed from ' ballroom ' dances, and there are several similarities between the two.
The visual impact in the ballroom must have been dazzling.
In ballroom scenes, the terms giri or in giri were also used to mean circling or taking a turn around the room.
The established code of social ballroom dancing, with which many dancers became well acquainted in their youth, is that the man leads at all times.
Many of these dancers moved into ' sequence ' when dance halls closed down, or they could no longer manage the competitive element of ' ballroom ' dancing.
In both forms the dancers as couples move anticlockwise round the dance floor, and the ' ballroom hold ' is often used for both.
In it are found dozens of increasingly picaresque and abbreviated sections depicting folk dances, ballroom dances, waltzes, marches, polkas - you name it.
At the masquerade, the eight men run into the ballroom at the stroke of midnight and scare the gathered revelers.
