The waltz was based on the Ländler, a folk dance scorned by upper class Austrians. Born on the outskirts of Vienna in 1825, Johann Strauss II composed over 500 waltzes, polkas and other kinds of ...

Quarryville native Johnny Weir and his dance partner Britt Stewart pose in the costumes they wore to perform a vampire-themed Viennese waltz to a cover version of the Radiohead hit, "Creep," on ...

Grete Wiesenthal, a ballet-trained Viennese dancer, made the waltz modern and a vehicle for solo expression.

The King of Waltz's iconic musical masterpiece wasn't included in NASA's Voyager space probes' Golden Records launched into space back in 1977, but this Waltz into Space aimed at Voyager 1 will ...

Stanford’s tradition of holding an annual Viennese Ball first began in 1978, when students returning from the Stanford in Austria program organized the event in order to bring Viennese culture ...

Mark Skousen, co-founder of FreedomFest, one of the largest libertarian conferences in the U.S., talked about the Fest, his life, and his book, [A Viennese Waltz Down Wall Street]. He was ...

Two amateur Jacksonville ballroom dancers — one a senior, the other a teen — recently won top honors in the U.S. Dance Championships in Orlando. Linda Dennis, 71, won the five-dance Pro/Am ...

For most people, the mere mention of a Viennese operetta conjures up a waltz of post-Johann Strauss composers—Franz Lehar (The Merry Widow), Oskar Straus (The Chocolate Soldier), Emmerich Kalman ...

The International Club of D.C. and Dumbarton House hosted its first Jane Austen ball Saturday, featuring plenty of Regency-era attire and Viennese waltz.

The 68th Viennese Opera Ball, A Night Inspired By 'Aida,' was held at the Plaza Hotel in New York City on May 10. Vienna is known as “the capital of music,” home to well-known home to ...