The Waltz is a smooth dance, with gentle, flowing movements, a memorable 1-2-3 rhythm, and a distinctive ‘rise and fall’ action. In its early years the Waltz caused outrage. It was called the ...

This was no primly patterned minuet, where dancers stood side by side, attention directed to precisely mapping elaborate steps. In the waltz, the couple hugged and glided and touched. The dance ...

DW steps into the world of the Viennese waltz. The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk dance scorned by upper class Austrians. Born on the outskirts of Vienna in 1825, Johann Strauss II ...

based on a Ukrainian folk dance, and the elegant Waltz of the Flowers. The Russian Dance - the Trepak - is a Cossack dance normally performed by men who would kick their legs out from a squatting ...