Can she dance the polka? Yes! What an adorable form of dancing, and even more so with the song selection. I commend you all with a round of applause. This one is on me. *Clap*Clap.
*Fascinating change of couple steps on one tune* between 4-count gallop, 2-count gallop, and what I recognize as the Wienerpolka. In the Romantic era, the gallop was a favorite fast dance, and Johann Strauß II provided for it with the Presto-tempoed: *TRITSCH-TRATSCH-POLKA, Op. 214* Pub., Tobias Haſlinger, GeMA
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vin55100: The tempo may seem that of a waltz but it is a Polonaise, which is a processional dance which proceeds a grand formal ball, especially the Viennese balls. The Polonaise is the National Dance of Poland. This Polonaise is entitled, "The Facher Polonaise" by Karl Michael Ziehrer, and this specific music is often played to open many of the great waltz balls in Vienna today. The polka music they are dancing to is Strauss, Jr.'s, "Trisch Trasch Polka".
It's clearly not waltz music, because it has a 4/4 time signature (which is counted as 1 2 3 4, 1 2 3 4, etc.). Waltzes are 3/4 (counted as 1 2 3, 1 2 3, etc.), or are at least based on 3/4. Other waltz variations include 5-count (which can be counted as 1 2 3, *4 5,* 1 2 3, *4 5* or 1 2 3, *1 2,* 1 2 3, *1 2* ) and 8-count (which is usually 1 2 3, 4 5 6, *7 8,* 1 2 3, 4 5 6, *7 8* or 1 2 3, 1 2 3, *1 2,* 1 2 3, 1 2 3, *1 2* ). There's also 7-count, 11-count, and many more, but all of them have a "1 2 3" at their core.
Polka of course is a czech dance, a beautiful czech dance, but this particular polka was written by an Austrian. There is also German, swiss, and even mexican polka, all with roots in it's czech ancestor.
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+James Horn maybe it's dbl time 'cause all u have to do is Watch them dance -- there's certainly a lot of waltz dancing there; I'm a dancer and know which steps are polka and which are waltz.
They are spinning, but the music is 2/4 and they seem to be doing two steps per beat. Again, there are different forms of the polka. The ones played by Frankie Yankowicz don't sound much like those by Strauss
+James Horn Spinning is done in many dances, including the Viennese waltz, polka, salsa, cha cha etc. The music may indeed be polka (at least parts of it) but in most of this dance the steps are waltz steps; if you listen in depth here , there's a waltz rhythm there somewhere, here..
tongolelelena: This is a more formal rendering of the Polka as done in Vienna and other parts of Europe. I've seen this version of the Polka also danced in a feature film made in the U.K. In Europe, the Polka is done with a rotary motion. The same can be said for the waltz, which is danced in rotary fashion and is faster paced (Viennese). In the U.S. the vast majority of people don't or can't do this as we don't have the grand ballroom traditions or much of any kind of ballroom tradition, and the original dance style was lost. People just tend to two-step to 3/4 time music or do the three steps per measure but don't do the turning.
maqus79 To jest polka - tak mi się zdaje. Problem w tym... że oni nie tańczą. Chyba, że mówimy o luźnym rozumieniu tańca, czyli takim kręceniu się na weselu. Oni dokładnie to samo robią - są ładnie ubrani i wykonują układ, ale na pewno nie tańczą. Tuptają nieporadnie nogami i tyle ;)
