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 ... Everyone did. As recently as 1977, John Cage wrote ...

based on a Ukrainian folk dance, and the elegant Waltz of the Flowers. The Russian Dance - the Trepak - is a Cossack dance normally performed by men who would kick their legs out from a squatting ...