Swing Waltz

A New Vogue Fast Waltz.
Approved as a Championship Dance by DanceSport Australia.

Music: 3/4 music, 145 beats per minute, 32 bar choruses.

Choreography : variously ascribed to:

  • Jack Kennedy, Rockdale, Sydney, 1939,
        ("Dances For Entertainment", Carl Limon & Laurel Butler, Dubbo 1988, p. 156)
    and to
  • Ted Kirk & Vene Sims
        ("Nostalgia Part 1", Neville Boyd OAM, Australian Dance Review, #302, March 2008, p. 13)

    Revised choreography : Neville Boyd OAM, Sydney, 1978.

    Notated in Labanotation
    by Don Herbison-Evans ( donherbisonevans@yahoo.com )
    using LED (a Labanotation editor)

    Also available in machine-readable form
    for 3D interactive animation using LINTEL,
    (LED and LINTEL also need the graphics library)

    (updated 25 March 2008)


    • Bar 26, Beat 3
    (author with partner Anna Piper)


    animation of man's steps (1,010 KB)

    animation of woman's steps (950 KB)