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One wonderful waltz of Johann StraussJohann Strauss II (October 25, 1825 -- June 3, 1899; also known as fully Johann Baptist Strauss, and Johann Strauss...
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Vienna Waltzes is a ballet choreographed by George Balanchine to music by Johann Strauss II, Franz Lehár and Richard Strauss, made as a tribute to Austria. It premiered on June 23, 1977 at the New York State Theater, performed by the New York City Ballet, and was an immediate success among the public.
The Viennese waltz, so called to distinguish it from the waltz and the French waltz, is the oldest of the current ballroom dances. It emerged in the second half of the 18th century from the German dance and the Ländler in Austria and was both popular and subject to criticism.
A work of monumental scale with a magnificent finale, the five-part Vienna Waltzes is set in moonlit Austrian forests and the regal ballrooms of Vienna. The waltz, which became popular in the late 1700s, was a dance form Balanchine revisited and explored often over his career, but never on as grand a scale as he did for the 1977 Vienna Waltzes .
choreographer: George BalanchineNew York City Ballet 1993
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May 28, 2021 · Balanchine’s “last word on the survival of romanticism,” per originating cast member and former Principal Dancer Suzanne Farrell, Vienna Waltzes transports its dancers and audiences to the later stages of the Austro-Hungarian empire in a swirl of silk and satin to the undeniable pulse of three-quarter time.
