quadrille

The mazurka - derived from a Polish musical form - and contradança from the British quadrille dance.

Many sections resemble contredanse or quadrille: ballroom arrangements of circles, lines, stars; dancers holding hands as they pass.

On the dance floor, guests ingest opium with lolling tongues, then variously pop their booties and walk a quadrille.

The room features holographic-type images of eight dancers in period dress performing a dance called a quadrille to the sounds of La Traviata.

The image of the British aristocracy wading through muddy quadrilles is irresistible.