Workington afternoon class

The Ländler is a European folk dance that was danced in German and Austria in the 17 hundreds and is often said to be the beginning of the Waltz. Though this has been challenged.

There are many references to sliding or gliding dance, including Volte a particular favourite of Elizabeth 1st that could of volve into the waltz.

Indeed the French philosopher Michel de Montaigne wrote of a dance he saw in 1580 in Augsburg, where the dancers held each other so closely that their faces touched, and about the same time Kunz Haas wrote, "Now they are dancing the godless Weller or Spinner."

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But it around 1750, the lower classes in the regions of Bavaria, Tyrol, and Styria began dancing a couples dance called Walzer and at the same time the Schleifer also known as the Ländler. These dance have long been regarded the beginning of the waltz…