How to have a fun masquerade ball

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Winter… The time of the shortest days and longest nights, gray skies and rare sun. Maybe in order to improve your mood, brighten up your life, feel hope and happiness, people came up with the New Year. And with it, a masquerade ball.

As the encyclopedia explains to us, a masquerade is a ball at which all those present must be with masks on their faces and dressed in various costumes - national, characteristic, historical or some kind of fantastic.

The first masquerades came to us from Italy and today they are one of the most popular and beloved entertainments in the whole world. A masquerade is not just a ball. This is a real holiday, a real celebration of the people with theatrical performances, street processions, games and fun in the open air. Even in Ancient Greece, especially in its colonies in Sicily, such mass holidays enjoyed universal recognition and love of the audience.

If you remember the history of Russia, then the ancestors of the masquerade ball were folk Christmas-Shrovetide festivities and performances of buffoons. But over time, they changed, gradually losing their nationality. In the end, in the 19th century, the festivities of the whole peoplealmost disappeared, but there was such a form as a masquerade ball.

These entertainments were held mainly among the nobles and were closed. In the masquerade, a certain plot completely disappeared, each mask was chosen arbitrarily and behaved independently of the others. But still, masquerades differed significantly from ordinary balls with their strict schedule and etiquette and allowed some liberties.

Modern masquerade takes place here mainly in winter - on Christmas and New Year's Eve. It is the most enchanting, full of vivid impressions and colors event. They prepare for it in advance, the organizers think over the script, the participants sew costumes. A mandatory holiday accessory is a mask.

Organizing a New Year's ball, especially for children, is a very interesting activity that will bring positive emotions. In preparation, the children themselves write scripts, prepare costumes together with their parents, decorate the hall where the New Year's “magic action” should take place. Humor, jokes, games, songs, poems, riddles - the whole arsenal of New Year's entertainment is selected by the guys. For them, the New Year's masquerade ball becomes a real celebration of fun and smiles, where sometimes the most incredible adventures take place.

If a masquerade is being prepared for adults, then everything is more complicated here. Adults have already grown out of the age when the world seems rosy. How to hold, for example, a corporate holiday, so that everyone likes it and remembers it. There is only one way out - to write a script, appoint those responsible for the organization and allocatefunds. It is on the latter that the chosen method of organization will depend: either on your own, or with the help of professional animators from holiday agencies.

The holiday organized by the agency will certainly be perfect. Jokes of animators, colorful costumes, masks, fun will make the masquerade ball colorful. The scenario of the carnival can be chosen for every taste. However, this pleasure is not cheap. And you need to order a mass entertainer in advance, because good agencies are in great demand on New Year's Eve. But, on the other hand, strangers will introduce some stiffness or their jokes will turn out to be stereotyped and not at all funny.

So isn't it better to organize a New Year's carnival on your own? In order for the holiday to turn out, it is necessary to choose a group of workers who have creative potential and are able to create a festive atmosphere. The cost of a self-organized holiday will decrease significantly - after all, it is done for yourself! And there are always plenty of ways to thank artists.

A festive buffet can be organized in a restaurant, outside the city or right in the office. Invitations should be sent out in advance to create a certain atmosphere of solemnity. They can even specify in what style the event is held. It can be a masquerade ball, a New Year's fairy tale or just a celebration without a dress code.

So, the script is written, approved by the management and rehearsed a thousand times, the tree is installed, the room is decorated, small gifts are purchased. Prepared toasts,jokes, anecdotes and funny stories. You can safely start the holiday and have fun, joke and dance. After all, there is a popular sign - as you celebrate the New Year, so you will definitely spend it!