Waltz facts for kids

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Waltz may mean:

People

  • Hanna Gronkiewicz-Waltz, Polish politician
  • Kenneth Waltz, member of the faculty at Columbia University
  • Christoph Waltz, Academy Award-winning Viennese actor
  • Gustavus Waltz, English opera singer

Images for kids

  • Seikilos score

    Seikilos epitaph

  • La Valse, Camille Claudel

    Waltz, by Camille Claudel (1893)

  • Man and woman dancing a waltz (1887)

    Man and woman dancing a waltz by Eadweard Muybridge. 1887.

  • Waltz1816 72

    Detail from frontispiece to Thomas Wilson's Correct Method of German and French Waltzing (1816), showing nine positions of the Waltz, clockwise from the left (the musicians are at far left). At that time, the waltz was a relatively new dance in England, and the fact that it was a couples dance (as opposed to the traditional group dances), and that the gentleman clasped his arm around the lady's waist, gave it a dubious moral status in the eyes of some.

  • Waltz dance pattern

    Waltz [rhythm].

  • Jazz waltz dance pattern

    Jazz waltz rhythm.



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