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Samba Pagode is a Samba partner dance that resembles the Samba de Gafieira but tends to be more intimate. The literal meaning of the Portuguese word "pagode" translates to "fun" or "merrymaking". [3] The word is also utilized to refer to an informal gathering of samba dancers along with their accompanying music.
Samba (Portuguese pronunciation: ⓘ) is a name or prefix used for several rhythmic variants, such as samba urbano carioca (urban Carioca samba), [1] [2] samba de roda (sometimes also called rural samba), [3] amongst many other forms of samba, mostly originated in the Rio de Janeiro and Bahia states.
Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (dança de salão, literally, "salon dance"). [1] Samba de Gafieira differs from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom ...
Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.
Lambada (pronunciation ⓘ) is a dance from the state of Pará in Brazil. The dance briefly became internationally popular in the 1980s, especially in the Philippines, Latin America and Caribbean countries. It has adopted aspects of dances such as maxixe, carimbó, forró, salsa and merengue. Lambada is generally a partner dance. The dancers ...
BBC One’s popular dance competition continued on Saturday (23 November) night, which saw the remaining seven couples take to the dance floor for a main routine, followed by a special Samba-thon ...
A samba school (Portuguese: Escola de samba) is a dancing, marching, and drumming (Samba Enredo) club. They practice and often perform in a huge square- compounds ("quadras de samba") and are devoted to practicing and exhibiting samba , an Afro-Brazilian dance and drumming style.
The "Dune" actress and Val Chmerkovskiy placed second on the show's season 16 finale in 2013, losing out to "American Idol" alum Kellie Pickler and Derek Hough.