A ballroom or ballhall is a large room inside a building , the primary purpose of which is holding large formal parties called balls . Traditionally, most balls were held in private residences; many mansions and palaces , especially historic mansions and palaces, contain one or more ballrooms. In other large houses, a large room such as the main drawing room , long gallery , or hall may double as a ballroom, but, a good ballroom should have the right type of flooring , such as hardwood flooring or stone flooring (usually marble or stone). . For most styles of modern dance, a wooden sprung floor offers the best surface.
18-789: Irving Plaza (known through sponsorship as Irving Plaza, powered by Klipsch and formerly known as the Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza ) is a ballroom -style music venue located within the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City . It was featured on the Complex City Guide list of "50 Best Concert Venues of America" in 2013. The building was purchased by the Polish Army Veterans of America District 2 in 1948, and turned into
36-432: A Polish-American community center. Generals and other distinguished Poles graced its stage including, in 1976, the future Pope John Paul II . In 1978, the hall was converted to a rock music venue by future Peppermint Lounge promoters Tom Goodkind and Frank Roccio, who after a year began to share promotional efforts with a "Club 57" crew headed by Jane Friedman and Louis Tropia. Goodkind and Roccio brought in acts such as
54-414: A ball" has grown to encompass many events where person(s) are having fun, not just dancing. Ballrooms are generally quite large, and may have ceilings higher than other rooms in the same building. The large amount of space for dancing , as well as the highly formal tone of events have given rise to ballroom dancing . The largest balls are now nearly always held in public buildings, and many hotels have
72-497: A ballroom. They are also designed large to help the sound of orchestras carry well throughout the whole room. A special case is the annual Vienna Opera Ball , where, just for one night, the auditorium of the Vienna State Opera is turned into a large ballroom. On the eve of the event, the rows of seats are removed from the stalls , and a new floor, level with the stage , is built. Sometimes ballrooms have stages in
90-623: A cost of 30 shillings and this price included a buffet and music provided by two bands with a Cabaret and Fully Licensed Bars. It remained a popular venue and continued until it closed in 1974. After its closure it became Baileys Club in the same year until its closure in 1977. The Reading Top Rank Ballroom opened in October 1967, with the building being demolished in 2015 to make way for the Station Hill redevelopment. The Sheffield Top Rank opened in 1968 on Arundel Gate, before becoming
108-593: A few Battle of the Bands , there as well. The 1960s saw the Top Rank active in Croydon . During the following decade it was rebranded as Cinatra's, which was an equally popular venue for many years. The reputation of the club began to decline in the 1990s, and eventually so did its trade. Cinatra's closed its doors for the final time in 2004 & has been vacant & boarded up ever since. The Doncaster Top Rank Suite
126-562: A spinoff of Clear Channel Communications , renovated and reopened Irving Plaza under the name "Fillmore New York At Irving Plaza" on April 11, 2007, reviving the name of the former Fillmore East in Manhattan's East Village , which had been open from 1968 to 1971. However, in May 2010 Live Nation conceded that the new name had not caught on and due to "unrelenting demand" the name "Irving Plaza" would be restored as from June 23, 2010. A replica of
144-834: The B-52s , Talking Heads , the Ramones and, with Friedman and Tropia, a wealth of British bands, establishing the venue as a premier American location for punk and new wave . The venue was reopened by Chuck Terzella in October 1983, with management by Frank Gallagher and the English DJ Andy Dunkley, presenting reggae and other ethnic music, plus college rock , proclaiming in their ads "We don't have video". Terzella's club filed for bankruptcy in December 1985, and closed in June 1986. Chris Williamson, who already promoted
162-481: The Event, and then refurbished and renamed Event II in 1996. In 2007 another refurbishment led to it reopening as Oceana , and later as Pryzm. The Cardiff Top Rank Suite opened in 1963 on Queen Street in the centre of the city. It hosted acts such as The Beatles , Led Zeppelin and U2 . The Top Rank closed in 1982 but the venue continued under a series of names until the building was demolished in 2005. They held
180-595: The Roxy Disco in 1985. The venue still exists as a destination for live music, and is now part of the O2 Academy Group . The Southampton Top Rank opened in the mid 1960s, was renamed The Mayfair , and closed in the late 1980s. The Swansea Top Rank was built by the Rank Organisation in 1967, and was initially a cinema. In 1972, Leslie Harvey , guitarist and co-founder of the band Stone
198-455: The building to condos fell through. They had to spend $ 25,000 on bringing the venue up to firecode before, in April 1987, Chris Williamson re-opened the club, featuring improved sound and lights, with an inaugural multi-night stand of Big Audio Dynamite . Williamson continued putting on shows into 1988—including hosting the popular "Milky Way" hip hop nights—but, as Irving Place gentrified, there
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#1732776761191216-436: The front of the room where the host or a special guest can speak. That stage can also be used for instrumentalists and musical performers. This list only includes ballrooms with permanent wood floors. The size of the floor only includes the largest contiguous area without obstructions. The websites and materials about some places add up multiple spaces, rooms, and balconies, and floors. However, this list ranks ballrooms based on
234-401: The original marquee was commissioned. On February 14, 2015, Paul McCartney played a surprise show announced only that morning on Twitter . On May 25, 2016, four people were shot at a T.I. concert before T.I. took the stage. One of the victims died later at a hospital. In 2019, the venue closed for renovations, with completion anticipated in 2020. After a fundraising concert that June,
252-572: The punk and hard rock oriented "Rock Hotel" nights at the Ritz, then took over in November 1986. He began programming alternative rock occasionally using the designation "Rock Motel". A New Year's Eve Rock Hotel show with The Dictators turned nasty after the band initiated a food fight and a bouncer became upset and began beating up some of the patrons. Plans by the Polish Veterans to convert
270-549: The size of one single open space with a hardwood floor. Video Top Rank Suite Top Rank Suite was the name given to a chain of nightclubs in the United Kingdom owned by the Rank Organisation . They were sometimes known as Top Rank Ballrooms . The Brighton Top Rank Suite opened in October 1965. It was rebranded in 1973 plus referb and called KingsWest. It was refurbished in 1990 and renamed
288-665: The venue officially reopened in August 2021 with a forty-concert season that ran to May of 2022. The new capacity was 1,200 and the renovations included improved sightlines, a VIP Lounge and performer amenities. It is operated by Live Nation. Notes Ballroom In later times the term ballroom has been used to describe nightclubs where customers dance, the Top Rank Suites in the United Kingdom for example were also often referred to as ballrooms. The phrase "having
306-418: Was increasing local opposition to the hall. A plan by Williamson to present a play in the winter of 1988 fell through and, in December 1988, it was announced that the club would close and be demolished and turned into condos. The last show was The Ramones on December 31, 1988. Dee Dee Ramone praised the venue: "It was funky without being a dump." Ron Delsener took on management in the early 1990s. Live Nation ,
324-626: Was on Silver Street from 1964 to 1974. Situated on the corner of Cheapside and Albion Square opposite the Hanley Town Hall the Top Rank Suite and Ballroom opened on 03/02/1965 at 12 noon with the official opening by The Lord Mayor of Stoke-on-Trent, Alderman J. E. Hulme J.P. This was then followed on 05/02/1965 with an opening “CHARITY BALL” where Evening Dress was required and was In Aid of Rotary Charities. It advertised Dancing from 8:00 pm – 2:00 am, Tickets were strictly limited at
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