Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year's tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance's greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...

But in the early 19th Century a new dance shook Britain – the waltz. In the polite society of the time men and women rarely found themselves alone together until they were married. The waltz’s ...

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 ...

Even 200 years after the birth of Austria's world-famous "waltz king" Johann Strauss II, his music has lost none of its magic ...

Best known for his rousing waltz The Blue Danube, which became Austria’s unofficial national anthem, many of his 500 dance pieces live on in Vienna’s roaring ball season. Strauss’s persistent ...