The Viennese waltz evolved from the popular late 18th-century folk dance, the Ländler, a boisterous affair in three-quarter time, often accompanied by stomping and hollering, Judith explained.As ...

Waltz’s dance, born in deep lockdown, embraces the openness and fluidity of Terry Riley’s classic minimalist score. It’s coming to BAM.

Why the waltz? What gives with this senescent New Year’s tradition of still waltzing 200 years since the birth of the dance’s greatest maker, Johann Strauss II? One simple answer is that this ...