American Waltz is some of the most beautiful music ever written in this world and social dancers can really move to this music. It is a basic dance because it is a Even Step dance. It is left, right, left, right, left, right and so on. It begins to become a dance as soon as you walk it according to the rhythm of the music, at whatever speed you are comfortable with. In our cultural dancing you must hear the music first and your body will just want to move to that one, two, three count. You just have to let it go, it will do very nicely by itself. Then as you walk (dance) to the music, you will notice that the one counts alternate from the left foot to the right foot to the left foot and so on. This does not have to be taught by your dance teacher and anyone can learn it by doing.
Then you notice that you feel the music better on the one count with the accent and you acquire "styling" early, you push a little harder on the one count. Just the act of pushing down will allow you to rise on the two and three counts. In the disciplines this can become very complicated. For us, the cultural dancers, this all just comes about naturally. Once you can enjoy the music and the movement of the dance to the basic square step, you will be on your way to being a waltz dancer. If you learned it in line dancing you are way ahead of most beginners, but Partner Dancing may prove a challenge. In learning the square step basic, you must learn the lead and the follow.
So then you find there are more ways to enjoying the music by varying the movements. And the simplest is the walk forward and the walk backwards. Of course, for most dances you have a left turn and right turn which is easy enough to do. And the only thing required is to do it. It can be called practice, fine, but just do it and keep doing it and you will become more proficient with time. There may be six hundred documented movements in waltz. There is no record of anyone knowing all six hundred. You will find that the basic cultural Bronze of about 30 movements will be more than enough to enjoy a good Waltz with most partners. And that is the name of our game. The fancy dancers in the disciplines or Night Clubs think they are different from us, and we respectfully concur.
"Men social dancers know more or less what they should do,
Ask someone to dance."
"Maui Waltz" by Loyal Garner
Then you notice that you feel the music better on the one count with the accent and you acquire "styling" early, you push a little harder on the one count. Just the act of pushing down will allow you to rise on the two and three counts. In the disciplines this can become very complicated. For us, the cultural dancers, this all just comes about naturally. Once you can enjoy the music and the movement of the dance to the basic square step, you will be on your way to being a waltz dancer. If you learned it in line dancing you are way ahead of most beginners, but Partner Dancing may prove a challenge. In learning the square step basic, you must learn the lead and the follow.
"Tennessee Waltz" by Patti Page
So then you find there are more ways to enjoying the music by varying the movements. And the simplest is the walk forward and the walk backwards. Of course, for most dances you have a left turn and right turn which is easy enough to do. And the only thing required is to do it. It can be called practice, fine, but just do it and keep doing it and you will become more proficient with time. There may be six hundred documented movements in waltz. There is no record of anyone knowing all six hundred. You will find that the basic cultural Bronze of about 30 movements will be more than enough to enjoy a good Waltz with most partners. And that is the name of our game. The fancy dancers in the disciplines or Night Clubs think they are different from us, and we respectfully concur.
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