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The basic step patterns are elaborated by different turns, the dancers pivoting on one foot, as in the waltz, or changing direction while they ...
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Except for display, social dances are rarely performed in any strict formation, although dancers may sometimes form themselves spontaneously into lines or circles. Ballroom dances are categorized instead by their step patterns, rhythms, and tempos. Some of the best-known social dances are the <anchor>waltz</anchor>, fox-trot, tango, rumba, samba, and cha-cha. The fox-trot is danced in moderate time, with two steps forward and two steps to the side executed in a slow-slow-quick-quick rhythm. The waltz is a three-step dance, and in the cha-cha five steps are executed in a four-beat measure with a slow-slow-quick-quick-slow rhythm.
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Key People: [Frédéric Chopin](/biography/Frederic-Chopin)[Johann Strauss I](/biography/Johann-Strauss-I)[Anton Diabelli](/biography/Anton-Diabelli)[Emil Waldteufel](/biography/Emil-Waldteufel)_(Show more)_

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**waltz**, (from German _walzen_, “to revolve”), highly popular [ballroom dance](https://www.britannica.com/art/ballroom-dance) evolved from the [_Ländler_](https://www.britannica.com/art/Landler) in the 18th century. [Characterized](https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/Characterized) by a step, slide, and step in 3/4 time, the waltz, with its turning, embracing couples, at first shocked polite society. It became the ballroom dance par excellence of the 19th century, however, and tenaciously maintained its popularity in the 20th. Its variations include the rapid, whirling Viennese waltz and the gliding, dipping [Boston](https://www.britannica.com/art/Boston-dance). Composers of famous waltzes include [Frédéric Chopin](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Frederic-Chopin), [Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky), and Johann Strauss and his sons, especially [Johann Strauss the Younger](https://www.britannica.com/biography/Johann-Strauss-II), who was known as “the Waltz King.”

This article was most recently revised and updated by [Amy Tikkanen](/editor/Amy-Tikkanen/6393).