How do you toast?
Cheers, no roar!
Right dinner partner:
During a ball you toast, if you are the right dinner partner, by first lifting your glass with your right hand and turning to the left towards your left dinner partner. Lift the glass for a toast, but without the glasses touching each other! Then to the right towards your neighbor and lift the glass. After this, you raise the glass to the person sitting in front of you, lower it again and take a sip. Then you do the same thing again but in reverse: opposite, right, left. You have now performed a toast.
Left dinner partner:
During a ball you toast, if you are the left dinner partner, by first raising your glass with your left hand and turning to the right towards your right dinner partner. Lift the glass for a toast, but without the glasses touching each other! Then to the right towards your neighbor and lift the glass. After this, you raise the glass to the person sitting in front of you, lower it again and take a sip. Then the same but in the other direction: straight ahead, left, right.
ATTENTION!
What makes it clever for table left and table right is that you must always have an "open embrace" towards the person you are toasting with. That is, you must switch hands between right and left so that you hold the glass in the hand furthest from the one you are toasting with.
Still feels messy? Just keep calm! It usually works out on the spot how you should go about it, and if it doesn't, you have a given topic of conversation!