Troylus Searll, London Gay Symphony Orchestra (LGSO), The Great Malarkey, Attack Attack Attack , Rubyyy Jones, Miss Cairo, Ungewinster, Moorita, Lolo Brow, Dott And Slim, Kasaï Masaï, The Roustabouts

Suzette Field,Tribune of The Last Tuesday Society, offers a curious invitation to The Rite of Spring – The Great May Masquerade, a concupiscent celebration, a fecund frolic and a fatal dance to the death.

On the one hundred and first anniversary of the scandalous Parisian premiere of "Le Sacre du Printemps", The Rite of Spring depicts an ancient ritual in which a pagan tribe gathers to welcome the Earth's annual renewal and propitiate the gods by selecting a sacrificial virgin*, who then ritually dances herself to death.

Dress code: Masks Obligatory, clothing optional. Frolicsome fecundity, Fairy tale characters, forgotten glamour, fantasy, Pagan Gods, Venice Carnival, circus, top hat and tails, burlesque.

Troylus Searll will welcome you to the ballroom with The Earth's Kiss: a fantasia which takes inspiration from - and the odd liberty with - Stravinsky's seminal ballet score.

The London Gay Symphony Orchestra will perform The Dance of the Earth, a terpischoreal trip through the ages, taking in the classical, the romantic and the decadent.

Attack Attack Attack will lead you to the climax of the evening, The Great Sacrificial Dance, though, due to health and safety requirements, dancing yourself death is discouraged.

Elsewhere at the ball:

THE FERTILITY FEAST
Gorge yourself upon a bountiful Baroque buffet of epicurean aphrodisiacs, sensually served by our gilded and masked mischievants.

THE DEATH RITES
Capture an immortal moment from time immemorial in our life drawing room, as Art Macabre and their cast of maidens and sage-elders recreate a pagan sacrificial ritual for the delectation of your eye and pen.

THE VIRGIN'S PENANCE
Let Captain Crop and Mistress Ivy entice you down to their dungeon of despair and delights where you can purge your passion, atone your ardour and shrive your sensuality under their iron discipline.

THE CHERRY BLOSSOM VIEWING
Celebrate the coming of Spring in medieval Japan, venerated in the traditional observance of the appearance of the cherry blossom; accompanied by the ritual of shibari, the ancient art of rope binding.

THE HOT SPRINGS
Shed your clothes and subject your body & soul to ritual purification and ablution in our hot tubs, frothing with primordial potency, while you imbibe our classic movies of adoration, obsession & sacrifice.