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Inventing The Solo Waltz

DANCE Posted: December 27, 2020 1:30 pm

No, we can’t all have random dance partners this year, so let’s go with a throwback to 1908. “The waltz may have a reputation as the ultimate social dance for partners — the way it is traditionally performed at the balls — but there is another interpretation, one that resonates in this pandemic year of physical distancing. More than a century ago, the Viennese dancer Grete Wiesenthal transformed the waltz into a powerful form of solo movement.” – The New York Times

DANCE Published: 12.24.20

Read the story in The New York Times Published: 12.24.20

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