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Guests of the Masquerade Ball
Brian Froud cameos as one of the dancers.
The Masquerade Ball occurs during Sarah's dream sequence while Jareth sings "As the World Falls Down".
Sarah wanders the ballroom, as if in a trance. The entire choreography of the scene was designed to have a dreamy, trance-like quality. The guests dance, laughing, having a good time. In the scene, Sarah seems uncomfortable around the others, until the Goblin King arrives. The two dance together until Sarah begins to realize what is going on. She flees from the guests. She breaks out of the dream, and when she does, the entire sequence visibly begins to break down. The guests fall over or fly to the ceiling and the wind blows hard through the room.
The masks were designed to be parodies of the goblins, and made to fit each individual dancer. Cheryl McFadden choreographed the sequence which features Louise Gold and Cheryl Henson as dancers.[1] Brian Froud also cameos as one of the dancers.
One particular dancer, with a sinister grotesque mask and chapeau-bras decorated with a bone, is noticeably glowering at and following Sarah throughout the dance, and is seen towards the end surreptitiously drifting in back of the lined dancers without diverting his gaze towards Sarah. Aside from the costumed dancers, there are also women in full gold body paint, seen in brief glimpses in the background.