Viennese Waltz - Technique and Styles

Technique and Styles

The Viennese Waltz is a rotary dance where the dancers are constantly turning either in a clockwise (natural) or anti-clockwise (reverse) direction 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.

The competitive style Viennese Waltz has a reduced amount of steps: Change Steps, Passing Changes, Hesitations, Hovers, the Contra Check, Natural and reverse turns.

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