Winter ... The time of the shortest days and longest nights, gray sky and rare sun. Maybe in order to improve the 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 everyone present should be wearing masks on their faces and wearing various costumes - national, characteristic, historical or some kind of fantastic.
The first masquerades came to us from Italy and today are one of the most popular and favorite entertainments in the whole world. A masquerade is not just a ball. This is a real holiday, a real walk of the people with theatrical performances, street processions, games and fun in the open. Even in ancient Greece, especially in its colonies in Sicily, such massive holidays were universally recognized and loved by the audience.
If we recall the history of Russia, then the ancestors of the masquerade ball were folk holy-carnival festivities and performances of buffoons. But over time, they changed, gradually losing the nation. In the end, in the XIX century, the festivities of the whole people practically came to naught, but such a form as a masquerade ball appeared.
These entertainments were carried out mainly among noblemen and were closed. A certain plot completely disappeared in the masquerade, each mask was chosen arbitrarily and behaved independently of the others. But nevertheless, masquerades differed significantly from ordinary balls with their strict routines and etiquette and allowed some liberties.
A modern masquerade takes place here mainly in the winter - on Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve. It is the most enchanting event, full of vivid impressions and colors. They prepare for it in advance, the organizers think through the script, the participants sew costumes. A must-have accessory for the holiday is a mask.
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New Year's ball, especially a children's one, is a very interesting activity that will bring positive emotions. In preparation, the children write the scripts themselves, prepare costumes 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. Adults have already grown up from the age when the world seems rosy. How to spend, for example, a corporate holiday, so that everyone would like and remember it. There is only one way out - to draw up a scenario, appoint those responsible for the organization and allocate funds. It is from the latter that the chosen organization method will depend: either on their own, or with the help of professional animators from holiday agencies.
The holiday organized by the agency will certainly be perfect. Animator jokes, colorful costumes, masks, fun will make the masquerade ball colorful. The scenario of the carnival can be chosen for every taste. However, such a pleasure is not cheap. And it is necessary to order a mass-entertainer in advance, because good agencies are in great demand in the New Year time. But, on the other hand, strangers will add some stiffness or their jokes will be stereotyped and not at all funny.
So is it not better to organize a New Year's carnival on your own? To get a holiday, you need 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 - because it is done for yourself! And there are always plenty of ways to thank artists.
A festive buffet reception can be organized in a restaurant, outside the city or right in the office. Invitations must be sent in advance to create a certain atmosphere of solemnity. They can even indicate in what style the event is held. It can be a masquerade ball, a Christmas 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. Toasts, jokes, jokes and funny stories have been prepared. Feel free to start the holiday and have fun, joke and dance. After all, there is a national sign - as you celebrate the New Year, you will surely spend it!