Celebrating the dawning of a new year has been a part of human culture for a long time. Fortunately, dancing fits very well into any sort of revelatory event. Remember the Yuletide dancing chickens? For the New Year's Eve ball below, I give you...dancing cats and dogs!!! How egalitarian!

An elegant affair, I'm sure...

Technically these two are skating, but skating is a form of dance, after all.

An enchanting scene in the moonlight before or after the dance.

Me neither. :-) Kidding. My dances all belong to Gary.

Masquerade New Year's balls were common way back then.

Another masquerade party.

Sweet and old fashioned.

The New Year's kiss...especially nice at the end of a dip. I'm very much looking forward to mine.