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Music

Viennese Waltz Music is fast ¾ time music; about 60 bpm; often classical.

• Carribean Blue (Enya)
• Can't Help Falling in Love (Elvis)
• Wonderful World (Louis Armstrong)
• Waltz for the Moon (FFIV)
• Merry Widow Waltz?
• That's Amore?

Steps

• Basic (Progressive)

• Hesitations
  • Progressive Hesitations
  • Zig-zag Hesitations (similar to Sr. Walk in Foxtrot)
  • Forward & Back Hesitation
  • Side-to-side Hesitation
  • Side-to-side Hesitations - with outside & indside underarm turns
  • Butterfly Hesitations
  • Viennese Hesitations (similar to "Points")

• Cross-body lead
  • Starts with M doing backward progressive
• Cross-body lead with underarm turn
• 3/8 Right Box Turn - start facing 1/8 turn toward center
• 3/8 Left Box Turn - start facing 1/8 turn toward outside

• Right box turns (fast)
  • start facing 1/8 turn toward outside
  • allow a little less room in frame

• Left cross turns (fast)
  • start facing 1/8 turn toward center
  • allow a little extra room in frame

• Spot turn
  • First do side-to-side hesitation with outside & indside underarm turns (UATs)
  • Separate a bit more than usual after the inside UAT, then take a big step toward W on L (to get momentum) and both of you spin around a center point with 9 tiny steps.
    While turning, try to keep your upper bodies facing each other as much as possible. Also, keep your feet as close together as you can, to keep the turning circle as small as possible.
  • Side-step to your right & close with your left (as though finishing a side-to-side hesitation)

• Underarm turn during Zig-zag hestitations (Jan '06, Goggin)
  • Note that during Zig-zag hesitations, M faces outside wall and LOD is to Man's Left.
  • 1–2−3: M raises L handhold as he steps back on L. While stepping back, pivot body 90 degrees CW, so you face opposite LOD and your L backstep moves toward LOD. The back step uses 1 beat; them M hesitates 2 beats. Meanwhile, W uses all 3 beats to turn 360 degrees CW under arm.
  • 4–5−6: M steps back with R and pivots to face outside wall again, then does a side-step & close toward LOD. W steps on L and mirrors M's side-close on beats 5&6.

NDCA Bronze-Level Steps

• Basic Left Turn
• Left Hesitation Turn
• Basic Right Turn
• Right Hesitation Turn
• Side Cross Hesitation
• Forward Hesitation
• Progressive Hesitation
• Curtsey Hesitation
• Right Outside Run-Around
• Promenade Run-Around
• Center Rocks Left
• Center Rocks Right
• Left Fleckerl
• Right Fleckerl