Art Students' Balls and Artists' Balls continued to be held at the Trocadero through the 1950s and up till the early 1960s over a period when dance music encompassed a wide range of styles including swing and Australian jazz in the early years, to foxtrot, waltz and tango in the later ones.

[1] The Sydney Trocadero was closed on 5 February 1971;[2] the building was demolished and replaced by a modernist cinema complex owned by the Hoyts group.

Some dancers were in elegant evening clothes, some in street wear, but the majority wore the "fanciest" of fancy costumes that their ingenuity could devise.

Murals designed by the president of the ball committee, Mr Stanley Cross, and executed by students of the Technical College decorated the walls.

Guests also used ingenuity in decorating the tables, one of which sprouted a row of five-foot high palm trees, another effigies of scarecrows, and a third a table-length model of an illuminated ferry-boat.