The Spring Ball-2025 took place at the Orsha City Palace of Culture.
The traditional "Spring Ball-2025" has already taken place at the City Palace of Culture "Orsha".
The event was attended by 20 couples – students from colleges, representatives of organizations and enterprises in the region, and the older generation.
Guests of the evening were greeted in the foyer of the Palace by the orchestra of classical music from the Orsha City Children's Art School "Harmony" and young footmen in costumes from the era of Peter I.
Photo zones were also set up, which were very popular among participants and guests of the event.
With a welcoming speech to the organizers and participants of the spring ball, the archpriest of the Central Deanery of the city of Orsha, priest Dmitry Savushkin, addressed the audience.
As per tradition, the dance evening opened with a polonaise.
At the head of the procession were the holders of the titles King and Queen of the "Ball of Flowers-2024" Tatyana and Sergey Kalugi. They were part of the jury and at the end of the evening were to perform the honorable mission of passing their crowns to the new title holders. In addition to them, the performances of the participants were judged by the head of the exemplary choreographic group "Veselushki" of the GCK "Victory" Alena Mysko, the choreographer of the honored amateur collective of the Republic of Belarus from the exemplary circus studio "Arena" of the GDK "Orsha" Anna Grigoryan, and the first secretary of the Orsha District Committee of the BRSM Maria Trubkina.
The spring ball continued with the Gibson gallop, the déjà vu polka, the contradance "Black Horse", the krakowiak, the quadrille, the padespany, and others. Ladies in elegant dresses and men in strict suits twirled in dances for two hours.
During the breaks between performances, participants and guests of the ball were presented with creative gifts by the members of the folk club of veterans "It's Not Evening Yet", artists, and amateur art groups from the GDK "Orsha". Of course, there were also social games.
According to the voting results, the king and queen of the ball became a couple of students from the Orsha College of VGU named after P. M. Masherov Irina Olesyuk and Ivan Kharevich. They were awarded crowns of winners and gifts from the event organizers. Irina and Ivan participated in a similar event for the second time. Last year, their performance also left a mark on the jury members and was even awarded a special prize.
Meanwhile, the winners of the audience sympathy prize were the newcomers of the spring ball – a student of the Orsha State Mechanical and Economic College Maria Lyutova and the master of industrial training Andrey Masekhnovich.
All participants thanked the event organizers for the bright emotions and new life experiences. Special words of gratitude were given to the chief choreographer, head of the sports ballroom dance studio "SPRES" Anna Blinchik and choreographers Anna Kaldanova, Olga Peterenko and Svetlana Belek.
The event was organized by the City Palace of Culture "Orsha", the Culture Department of the Orsha District Executive Committee, and the Orsha District Committee of the BRSM.
Vadim KRAVCHENKO.
Photo by the author.