Here's an easy waltz variation from English dance teacher William Lamb's Everybody's Guide to Ball-Room Dancing (London c1898-1900). The Waltz Two Step is a short sequence of two-step done in waltz time which can be used as a variation in a late 19th-century waltz or as a short standalone sequence dance. Because the movements are quite slow-paced, it is best suited to extremely fast music.
This sequence represents the an early form of "hesitation waltz" from before that term came into use in the 1910s. In this case the normal two-step movement (briefly described in a previous post here) rather than being counted "1&2" in 2/4 rhythm, as is more typical in this era, is danced in 3/4 rhythm with each two-step stretched over two full bars of music, so that the slide-close-slide happens on the first, third, and fourth of the six beats.
The sequence is sixteen bars long, with the movements being an eight bar sequence repeated with different leading feet.
The Waltz Two Step (sixteen bars of 3/4 time)
Starting position: "military" - side by side, gentleman's right arm around lady's waist, her left hand on his right shoulder
First Part (forward step-hops)
1b Step forward on outside foot (1), pass inside foot gently forward (2), and hop on outside foot (3)
1b Repeat starting on inside foot
Close up into normal ballroom hold
Second Part (turning two-steps)
2b Slow two-step, making a half-turn, stepping side (12)-close (3)-side (456)
4b Continue slow turning two-step for a total of one and a half turns overall
Open up side by side again, this time with the gentleman on the right and lady on the left (see note below).
Repeat
8b Repeat all of above starting on the opposite foot
Reconstruction/performance note
In the repeat, Lamb calls for the dancers to start in a position "the same as in the first two bars, but the relative position is altered, they standing side by side, but with the lady on the left instead of the right." This seems to call for a reverse military position, but that presents a rather awkward transition into a normal ballroom hold for the following turns. I believe Lamb intended that the dancers should open up side by side but holding only hands (his left, her right), as is explained more thoroughly in the same source in the dance Tantivy (described in a previous post here).
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