For those of you who compete in, or possibly judge, American Smooth, I have a question: What are the more common figures danced in Viennese Waltz aside from right and left turns and change steps? I ask because while practicing figures from syllabus, I received the comment that almost nobody is dancing much other than right and left turns, change steps and maybe underarm turns in competition. The hint directed my way was: Why are you bothering to learn those other figures? I am curious as the veracity of the statment made to me. As for myself, I will continue down my syllabus road, allegedly less travelled. This message is shoe add and baby anouncement-free.

Hello Silver, I do like to follow the syllabus too! I follow the Dancevision syllabus. There are several steps in that. We just do the steps, that we like. *But for comp. it is a different thing. You will have to display, what they want in that heat, that you have chosen to enter.
Go to the dancevision.com site. and check it out.
Hope this helps! If not, just let me know how I can possibly help! Scotty Boys Doll