Sunday May 27, 2012

Vienna Ball

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Vienna Ball
REUTERS/Yuriko Nakao

Photographers take pictures during the Vienna Ball 2009 in Tokyo on Saturday night, held as part of an event marking the 140th anniversary of the diplomatic ties between Japan and Austria.

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    GoingtoJapan

    looks fun=D

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    some14some

    Beauty from afar...!

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    Sarge

    Shall we dance?

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    neverknow2

    Of course! Traditional Japanese Ballroom Dancing.

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    kwatt

    Reminds me of the movie "Shall we dance"

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    Smythe

    Only for the pleasure or the picked few to the rich. Out of our class.

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    outofmydepth

    oh, there IS the japanese WAY of doing this i am sure.

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    TokyoGas

    Looks good.

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    kenchan

    sorry, but wheres the austrains?

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    Azrael

    Fashion Alert: The photographer at the left is wearing WHITE SOCKS/TIGHTS with a DARK PANTS SUIT.

    That said, I think these events are remnants of the Meiji Restoration when so-called refined social traits were eagerly adopted by Japanese nobility and European manners and dress became a standard in Japan, displacing the Japanese equivalent. It looks like the dancers are having fun. That is nice.

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    Athletes

    Kenchan

    **sorry, but wheres the austrains? **

    I saw Austrians are playing musical instruments in the photo. They are not dancing.

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    Betzee

    It looks a bit slow and staid for my taste. When I lived in China one of the few forms of entertainment was dance parties. So I did a lot more classical dance, as opposed to contemporary, in Asia then I ever did closer to where it was invented. One of my favorite pieces of accompanying music was "Die Lorelei," precisely because you can go very fast, almost as if you are on ice skates.

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    uberloser

    Paid dancers? All of the women seem top be wearing one of two dress designs...

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    watershed

    Where's Bruce Forsythe? Is this the warm up for S"trictly".

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    AlfGarnett

    I agree with watershed, you can't have one of these events without Forsythe's presence.

    Looks bloody boring to me though, i always hated all that dancing in the old days.

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    kenchan

    Athletes> good spot, but my point is that is the ball is about ties with Austria then shouldn't the dancing be mixed?

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