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Lanner (c. 1825) Joseph Lanner (12 April 1801 – 14 April 1843) was an Austrian dance music composer and dance orchestra conductor. [1] [2] He is best remembered as one of the earliest Viennese composers to reform the waltz from a simple peasant dance to something that even the highest society could enjoy, either as an accompaniment to the dance, or for the music's own sake.
The Ländler (German pronunciation:) is a European folk dance in 3 4 time. Along with the waltz and allemande, the ländler was sometimes referred to by the generic term German Dance in publications during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. [2] Despite its association with Germany, the ländler was danced in many European countries.
The "Ländler", as performed in the film The Sound of Music, is not a traditional Ländler, but a choreographed derivative of this Austrian form of folk dance. The "Chicken Dance" is not an Austrian folk dance, nor is it from Austria. The song "Edelweiss" is not an Austrian folk song, and it is not the national anthem of Austria.
Ländler: A dance for couples showing fierceness and trampling. Sometimes it is purely instrumental and sometimes is accompanied by vocal arrangements including yodeling . When ballroom dancing became popular in Europe in the 19th century, Ländler became faster and more elegant and men took the nails off of the boots they danced with.
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World Tour in 1993 and The Velvet Rope World Tour in 1998 for which she received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Achievement In Choreography. [1] At the 1999 MTV Video Music Awards upon winning the Best Dance Video award for Livin' la Vida Loca , Ricky Martin called Landon onstage and passed the award to her (she choreographed the video).