The simpler splendor of yore. But for all its imperial finery and grandeur, the waltz was the people’s dance. Johann Strauss II, in particular, had a way of going far beyond merely making people ...

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 ...