In 1949, the first Pillsbury Bake-Off, a lavishly publicized event featuring a hundred homemakers working at top speed in a hundred model kitchens, was staged in a ballroom at the Waldorf-Astoria.
When Quartararo and co-founder Gregg Schwenk launched the first Newport Beach Film Festival in 2000, they staged it in the ballroom of the Newport Beach Marriott hotel.
Far from being staged in the usual hotel ballroom or university lecture hall, it will take place among the bucolic surrounds of Ballymaloe, the family estate made famous first by Myrtle Allen's seminal country house restaurant, and then by her daughter-in-law Darina's cooking school and picturesque organic farm.
A large-scale community dance project will be staged at Glasgow's Barrowlands ballroom as the finale to the London 2012 cultural programme.
Swedish DJ duo Dada Life briefly earned the record for largest pillow fight after a show staged at Chicago's Aragon Ballroom where each participant of the 3,813-strong 3,813-strong haudiencepillowasefore thandedw.
The show reminds us that the refined mischief in Watteau's paintings comes out of the stage, the ballroom and the concert hall.
According to HuffPost's Bonnie Christian and James Gerken, when Gore walked on stage, a ballroom full of people greeted him with a standing ovation.
The instant she heard the swooshing sound of skates on ice, and saw a blur of beautiful women swirling onto an Atlantic City stage in ballroom dresses.
Up on stage, the ballroom DJ Byrell the Great is hunched over his laptop and mixers next to a table of judges who are, for some indiscernible reason, all sucking on lollipops and waving neon glowsticks.
The story's enchantments are seriously staged, from the glittering coach to the vast clock descending on the ballroom scene.
