Wild Dancer?

         http://wilddancer.com/newwild/ 

   Here's a short film the Seattle-ites recently finished:

         Dancing Lives

    Richard's book's preview seems to be up in google--for the moment, at least (scroll up to the beginning):

       http://books.google.com/books?id=_Ib9pCA0jH0C&pg=PA22&lpg=PA22&dq=cross+step+waltz+turning+basic&source=bl&ots=FhK45FShzk&sig=hM01JTO_VN2LS0EnAFt2wqj_13c&hl=en&sa=X&ei=MuCzUZnwL-W8iwKfvYHYCA&ved=0CIABEOgBMA4#v=onepage&q=cross%20step%20waltz%20turning%20basic&f=false 

    An Ode to cross-step from a beginner:

         http://bluesuedesouls.blogspot.com/2011/01/cross-step-waltz.html 

    Donald Daniel's exhaustive opus on all that is waltz-ish:

         http://www.waltzballs.org/vw.html

    Waltz Wiki:

        http://www.huatuan.com/ab25/waltz/waltz-wiki.htm

    Richard Powers' Exhaustive Explanations of X-Step Waltz:

         http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/Advantages_of_Cross-Step.pdf 

         http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/cross-step_waltz.htm

    Last Stanford Magazine article:

        http://alumni.stanford.edu/get/page/magazine/article/?article_id=55979

    Wikipedia entry for cross-step waltz:

        http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross-step_waltz 

    Richard Powers' biography in a nutshell (and not so much of a nutshell):

        http://www.profilesinconverse.org/blog/?p=64 

        http://www.marielmcewan.com/Media/Richard.html 

     Laissez-faire waltzing--an economic essay: 

         http://www.thefreemanonline.org/features/hayek-strauss-and-the-political-waltz/

    Why do so many engineering students take social dance classes at Stanford?:

        http://www.joanwalton.com/engineering-and-social-dance 

    Closed group theory math and waltz -D: 

        https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YUudyLkF7grGGuZPhjmDgO6vb0sFEGIAi_5l_TnC7y0/edit

    Someone dismayed, in a kind of typical way,

    by the difference between what we do, and what the rest of the world does:

        http://www.dance-forums.com/threads/arthur-murray-leading-big-self-questions.40662/ 

    Someone trying hard to understand waltz frame:

             https://groups.google.com/forum/?hl=en&fromgroups=#!topic/rec.folk-dancing/PijcdGna3CY 

         Expand this, and look for the first entry by Peter Renzland, 

         He's on our wavelength. 

    A report from the Stanford front:

        http://socialdancemusings.wordpress.com//?s=cross-step&search=Go

    Some more Powers essays:

        http://www.folkfire.org/v3n1.htm#zen 

        http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/ballroom.html   

        http://socialdance.stanford.edu/syllabi/conditional_learning.htm 

    A sweet little gushy story about Vienna Tang's "Between" and cross-step:

        http://kdsorceress.livejournal.com/626100.html 

    Course offering at Stanford:

        https://continuingstudies.stanford.edu/courses/course.php?cid=20122_DAN+29 

    Some old Portland-Centric notes, password is "Portland":

        http://123.writeboard.com/bf67a3b47a1b02ca2 

    Lord Byron's long-winded tribute to the waltz (after bitching about it incessantly): 

        http://mykeep.com/lordbyron/waltz.html 

    Reportage on the Boston-parisien:

        http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/09/01/everybody-boston-world-best-dance/9qv194NmKCRQVfh9jGPX8N/story.html

    A rant against sloppy timing in Viennese Waltz:

        http://www.dancearchives.net/2012/04/26/viennese-waltz-please-use-the-right-music-from-michael-herdlitzka/

    History of the ignoramus waltz and the Boston:

        http://www.dancearchives.net/2012/10/18/the-waltz-by-zoe-anderson/

    A discussion of the history of waltz around the time of Congress of Vienna, mostly wrong, I think:

        http://www.walternelson.com/dr/shocking-waltz