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Bolero is a Spanish dance in 3/4 time popular in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. It originated from the seguidilla sometime between 1750 and 1772, [ 2 ] and it became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.
Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It has been called the "quintessential Latin American romantic song of the twentieth century".
The French film Les Uns et les Autres was also distributed under the name Boléro, [35] and features a bolero dance sequence [36] by Jorge Donn [37] at the end. The ice dancing pair Torvill and Dean danced to a four-and-a-half-minute version of Boléro in winning the gold medal in ice dancing at the 1984 Winter Olympics , receiving perfect 6.0s ...
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The dance most commonly represents the couple falling in love. Modern bolero is seen as a combination of many dances: like a slow salsa with contra-body movement of tango, patterns of rhumba, and rise and fall technique and personality of waltz and foxtrot. Bolero can be danced in a closed hold or singly and then coming back together.
Her training included mastering all branches of this dance: the bolero school, the folkloric, the classical, the stylized, and the flamenco dance. Her contribution was the "innovative idea of introducing castanets into dance, with Italian and Spanish baroque music", [1] an idea that she derived from her work with Domingo José Samperio, who invented "concerted crotalogy".
It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: List of dance style categories
Sebastián Cerezo (also spelled Sebastián Zerezo) [nb 1] was a Spanish dancer from La Mancha. [2] In 1799, he was credited by Zamácola y Ocerín as one of the earliest and best dancers of the bolero, [2] a Spanish dance developed between 1750 and 1772, [2] which became very popular in Madrid, La Mancha, Andalusia and Murcia in the 1780s.