The Waltz is a centuries-old traditional ballroom dance that beautifully glides and slides progressively around the dance floor. It elegantly combines swing movements with rise and fall, whilst incorporating rotational movements and creating graceful shapes and lines.
The Waltz flows
The Waltz is a centuries-old traditional ballroom dance that beautifully glides and slides progressively around the dance floor. It elegantly combines swing movements with rise and fall, whilst incorporating rotational movements and creating graceful shapes and lines.
The Waltz flows stylishly around the floor, and has been the basis for the contemporary ballroom dances of Foxtrot, Quickstep, Viennese Waltz and even English Tango.
Learn the Waltz along with the other contemporary ballroom dances and start swinging and gliding around the floor!
Smooth and elegant, the Foxtrot is a traditional ballroom style danced to slow and smooth big band tunes. Foxtrot developed from the traditional Waltz, but modified to suit a 4/4 time signature. The Foxtrot glides around the floor with ease and fluid elegance. At Dance 4 Life, we teach Social Foxtrot (or slow rhythm), and later develop into the Slow Foxtrot.
The Quickstep is the most upbeat and energetic of the ballroom dances. Danced to the tunes of big band swing music, the danced developed from the Foxtrot to suit the increasingly popular uptempo tunes