Are the Fox-Trot and the Waltz Different?

What’s the difference between the fox-trot and the waltz?

Carrie Babcock, an instructor at The Fred Astaire Dance Studio,London, explains that a fox-trot is danced to music in 4/4 time and uses more stretched and glided steps—more flight.

A waltz, Babcock says, is done to music in 3/4 time, and uses a rotational, swaying movement—turning and revolving. Most of the time when we see waltzes in the movies, with couples spinning and women in full dresses, it’s a slightly faster version of the Viennese waltz.