The Viennese Waltz is a fast-paced ballroom dance, set to 3/4 music, with a 1-2-3 1-2-3 lilt to it. Like its name reveals, it comes from Vienna, Austria, and many classical Viennese waltz numbers were composed by Austrian musicians. In standardised ballroom dance competitions, the Viennese waltz is set to music speeds of about 58-60 bars per minute.
Though very fluid and graceful when performed properly, it is actually a fast dance, and is the fastest of the International Style Standard dances. A true Viennese Waltz contains only turns and changes, and moves around the ballroom in an anti-clockwise fashion continuously, i.e.
Standardisation by International Style ballroom teachers has added a move called the Fleckerl, which essentially spins the couple together as one unit on one spot, and the Contra Check, which is a very quick move that puts the woman into a rather steep backward dip (Note: This is an inadequate description, see the first few seconds of the video).
For a video demonstration of International Style Viennese Waltz, see:
www.YouTube.com/watch?v=iwdWE-X2vRI
There are some cool waltz dances from many countries here are some examples: * Viennese Waltz * International Standard Waltz * American Style Waltz * Cross Step Waltz * Peruvian Waltz * Curacaon Waltz * Mexican Waltz * Canjun Waltz * Tango vals * Venezuelan waltz
Wunderbar is not based on a Strauss waltz, although its composer was Viennese. It was written by Robert Katscher, 1894 - 1942, and was appropriated, with credit by Cole Porter for Kiss Me Kate.
Russell Corrigal, from Winnipeg Manitoba, wrote one of the songs called Red River Waltz. There was a few of them about 1965 is when his version came out. I have a 45 rpm recording of this.
Crazier, which Taylor Swift did for the hannah montana movie (I hate miley, but love Taylor) is the only song I've heard from her to which you can dance a waltz. If your unsure about whether a song is a waltz you can google sheet music for it, so you can see if it's written in 3/4 or 6/8 time. I recomend results from musicnotes.com that might come up. They usually will allow you to preview the song. If 3/4, it's a slow waltz. If 6/8, it's a Viennese waltz.
In miniseries "Strauss Family", Johann played violin as well as piano
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Waltz in its early days was actually what we know now as the Viennese waltz. Viennese Waltz requires a very close hold to be properly executed and was controversial due to the close proximity in which the dancers were dancing to each other. Many people thought this was indecent. This is why the Waltz was controversial early on.
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There are some cool waltz dances from many countries here are some examples: * Viennese Waltz * International Standard Waltz * American Style Waltz * Cross Step Waltz * Peruvian Waltz * Curacaon Waltz * Mexican Waltz * Canjun Waltz * Tango vals * Venezuelan waltz
There are 4 categories in ballroom dancing: International Latin has the samba, cha-cha, rumba, paso doble ,and the jive. American Rhythm has the cha-cha, rumba, east coast swing, bolero, and the mambo. International Standard has the waltz, tango, viennese waltz, foxtrot, and quickstep. American Smooth has the waltz, tango, foxtrot, and viennese waltz.
Foxtrot, waltz, swing, tango As an extension of this, the 5 International ballroom dances are Slow Foxtrot, Modern Waltz, Tango, Quickstep and the Viennese Waltz.