The Viennese waltz refers to the ballroom dances of Europe. Its movements are similar to the slow waltz, but it is performed with greater speed and complemented by an emphasis on the first bar. The musical size is three-quarter. Each measure consists of three steps, as in the slow, the first step will determine the second step, during the second step dancers must make a turn of 180 degrees. The third step consists only of sticking a free leg.

Partners lower part of the body minimally separated from each other, in the upper part of the partner is deflected, creates a shape. The partner should create conditions in which his partner can make free movements. If the “right” waltz is performed, the partner deviates to the right and the first step begins with the right foot.

What you need to pay first attention:

In the first measure, the first step is performed between the partner’s legs and not past, because this execution of the step allows for the most effective turn;
The difference in the movements of the partners should be one measure, the exception is the figure waltz, which may have additional figures in the set of movements.

Forward Movement
The first step begins “with the heel”, the foot turned to the right – “right waltz”, the second step complements the first, during its execution partner “bypasses” the partner. The complexity of the second step directly depends on the first, because, as already mentioned, the total turn should be 180 degrees, the last step is the third. It is just putting the foot.

Backward movement
It begins with the left foot and the partner steps with the right foot, as described a few lines above. The first step of the partner in the second measure should coincide with the step of the partner, she, in turn, is oriented on the partner. The second step completes the corner, the leg which has remained free, attached to the third step.

The ballroom dancing championship always contains in its program a Viennese waltz, with the obligatory figures are considered:

Natural and Reverse Fleckerle;
Reverse and natural turns;
Forward-backward change;
Check (transition) from inverse fleur-de-lis to natural.
A large role belongs to the interaction of partners, the staging of their bodies, as well as their hands.

History of Origins
“The predecessors” of the Viennese waltz, were very chaste. The partner was usually at a great distance from the partner, and the touch was made only by the fingertips.

When the waltz that we already know came into being, the dancers and the adult society treated it with skepticism and considered it vulgar. But young people happily embraced the innovation.

After the final victory over Napoleon, the Congress of the Allies was convened in Austria (Vienna) in 1815. The countries celebrated their victory and the new dance sparkled at the balls. It was at this time that the Viennese waltz acquired an emphasis on the first measure, no matter how much secular society resisted, it took its triumphant place.