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 ...

The “Chairman’s Waltz” in John Williams’ score to the 2005 film “Memoirs of a Geisha” is another lilting, lovely example of grappling onto a dance that refused to die. But the elephant ...

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 ...