Janice McEntee

OLD TOWN TEMECULA COMMUNITY THEATER – VIENNESE WALTZ

Picture taken during my performance of Viennese waltz. A Thousand Years by Christina Perri. VIENNESE WALTZ – is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either toward the leader's right (natural) or toward the leader's left (reverse), interspersed with non-rotating change steps to switch between the direction of rotation. A true Viennese waltz consists only of turns and change steps. Other moves such as the fleckerls, American-style figures, and side sway or underarm turns are modern inventions and are not normally danced at the annual balls in Vienna. Furthermore, in a properly danced Viennese Waltz, couples do not pass, but turn continuously left and right while traveling counterclockwise around the floor following each other.
https://youtu.be/xT5pn6rbvF4 (Viennese Waltz routine practice at the Arthur Murray Temecula Studio)
https://youtu.be/zlTzt4URsHg (Argentine Tango routine practice at the Arthur Murray Temecula Studio)