BOCCONI ALUMNI CHAPTER VIENNA PRESENTS

INTERNATIONAL WEEKEND VISITING BANK AUSTRIA BALL IN VIENNA, 18.01.2020

Vienna’s Ball season

The Vienna Ball Season is a set of individual Gala and Dance events in the winter months between November and March each year and taking place in the most glamorous Palaces in the city. This period of the year is probably the most magic one and the entire city of Vienna is transforming into an enormous ballroom dancing to the famous Waltzes of Johann Strauss.

Why attending a Ball in Vienna?

Vienna's most important cultural heritages are the Original Viennese Waltz and the winterly ball season. These sets of events have been influencing the social and political life in the city for centuries and are still firmly fixed in the live of the locals nowadays. And since the Viennese Balls are quite entertaining and dancing the Original Waltz and Midnight Quadrille is quite a bit of fun, these events perfectly showcase a local heritage and offer a deep insight into the Viennese culture as no other event of the year does - apart from the New Year's Concert, maybe.

What is the BANK AUSTRIA Ball?

BANK AUSTRIA ist one of the most traditional Austrian Financial Institutions and seit almost 15 years part of UNICREDIT GROUP. Every year BANK AUSTRIA organizes a ball. This time it will take place in the leisure framework of the Vienna Cityhall, on January 18, 2020. About three thousand guests will socialize and demonstrate their dancing and partying abilities which will take their take their thoughts away from daily concerns such as interest rates, stock prices, and so on.

The whole program of the weekend in Vienna is the following:

17th of January, Friday – arrival, optional dinner ‘’Get together’’ (not included in price)

18th of January, Saturday

11-00 – 13-00 Dance Crash Course at Tanzschule Stanek (included in price)

13-00 – 19-00 – free time, Ball preparations

19-00 – 21-00 - Dinner (included in price)

21-00 – 04-00 The Ball (seat at of the Bocconi Alumni tables is included in price)

Sunday, 18th of January

12-00 – Brunch (included in price)

How to prepare?

Since a Ball in Vienna is a quite traditional series of events, we recommend learning how to dance prior to the event. That is why we will organize a few-hours crash course at one of the Viennese historical Dance schools where you will be able to improve your dance style, body-posture and dance-hold, but also train you on the most important do's and don'ts and introduce the Viennese Ballroom Etiquette to you. The Dress-code for the Ball is not so strict as it is for some other Viennese Balls, but still ladies need to have floor-length evening dress, while gentlemen - black tailcoat with white bow tie, black tuxedo with black bow tie, black suit with bow tie (no tie!) or high uniform.

What do I need to do?

You simply need to register and buy your ball package (Waltz-Crash-Course, Aperitivo-Dinner, Ball Ticket with Access to the Bocconi-Alumni Tables and Brunch on the next day).

NOTE FOR OUR ALUMNIs WORKING FOR UNICREDIT GROUP:

Alumni employed at Unicredit Group or Bank Austria, register via the website of Bank Austria and not using this form, as we have only a limited number of places for Bocconi Alumni distributed on ’’first come – first served’’ basis. The Ball tickets’ sales for Bank Austria employees will open on the internal Bank Austria page at the end of November – first days of December. If you book your tickets directly there, it will help us to have more Bocconi Alumni at the Ball. For the rest of the package, then, contact us via email vienna@bocconialumni.it once booked the ticket.

Bocconi Alumni Vienna - Viennese Ball Weekend