While the waltz, the quadrille and other traditional dances are the heart of the Viennese balls, modern events now offer a diverse range of music and entertainment. Most venues feature multiple halls ...

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Group dance involves wheelchair users only or together with able-bodied partners whereas single dance sees a wheelchair user dance alone. Standard dances include waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, slow ...

Then they attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive ... anniversary of the birth of Viennese composer and violinist Johann Strauss II, known as the “waltz king.” ...

The dance came into fashion in the late 18th ... In welcoming the erotic on stage, the waltz-based Viennese operettas liberated all forms of theater. What had been the backbeat of a bygone epoch ...

Then they attend multiple lessons at a dance school and receive ... anniversary of the birth of Viennese composer and violinist Johann Strauss II, known as the “waltz king.” ...

Johann Strauss II (1825–1899) is known as the 'Waltz King'. He was the greatest of all Viennese dance music composers. Life and Music The young Strauss had started composing and directing his own ...