The vals has a charm of its own — and a trap of its own: if you always step on the one, you soon end up in a sameness that does not do the piece justice.
The workshop is about using the possibilities of the three-beat bar: the second and third beat as room to shape, the flow of the phrases, the interplay of turn and melody. Vals lives on lightness, not on speed.
What you take home
More variety in the vals and a feeling for where a phrase breathes — so that the dance feels carried rather than rushed.