Ballroom Dance - Beginner - Viennese Waltz
CERA Recreation Complex • 3300 Bryant Irvin Rd Fort Worth, TX 76109 Organized by Corporate Employees Recreation AssociationAbout this event
Description
We're sorry, but this activity is over. The last meeting was Wednesday, April 24, 2024.
The dance that is popularly known as the waltz is actually the English or slow waltz, danced at approximately 90 beats per minute with 3 beats to the bar (the international standard of 30 measures per minute), while the Viennese Waltz is danced at about 180 beats (58-60 measures) a minute. To this day however, in Germany, Austria, Scandinavia, and France, the words Walzer (German for "waltz"), vals (Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish for "waltz"), and valse (French for "waltz") still implicitly refer to the original dance and not the slow waltz.
The 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 travelling counterclockwise around the floor following each other.
Age Category
Adult
Prerequisites
Staff Member - CERA - Annual
or Staff Member - CERA - Lifetime
or Ballroom Dance Associate Membership
or Ballroom Dance Guest Membership
Instructor
Maghen Garrett
Multiple Instructors