Help! Need dance or Ballet music!

[spcheng]

Hi,
I just enrolled into a piano repertoire class, and the theme for this quarter is dance or ballet music - and I have to choose 2 (Both cannot be from the same era). Was thinking about a Waltz or Mazurka from Chopin.

As I am not too familiar with pieces, please make some reccomendations!! - there is a time limit of 6 minutes for each piece!

Please help me with choosing! Much appreciated!!

[healdie]

what about the 3 fantastic dances by Shostakovich? or the Brahms Waltzes or Hungarian dances or Dvorak Slavonic dances arranged for solo piano?

This is the sort of thing I would go for as I bet everyone is thinking of Chopin

and there are literally tons of Operatic transcriptions out there by Liszt, Thalberg

I don't know if they would Class Schönbergs suite for piano OP. 25 dance I suppose it is inspired by dance but i think they would be rather tricky to dance to and they all have dance names

[spcheng]

Thanks for the reply!!! I'll check out the Shostakovich dances and your other reccomendations! (Your right that alot of people are thinking Chopin pieces) I made a slight mistake saying operatic pieces, but its actually dance or ballet inspired!