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The first Zumba class I ever took at a local Pilates studio was unexpectedly hard. In Zumba, participants don’t learn and then practice choreography, but follow the instructor’s dance moves in ...
Zumba dancing at Roanoke College in the United States, 2012. Zumba is a fitness program that involves cardio and Latin-inspired dance. It was founded by Colombian dancer and choreographer Beto Pérez in 2001. [1] It currently has 200,000 locations, with 15 million people taking classes weekly, and is located in 180 countries.
Alberto "Beto" Pérez (born 15 March 1970) is a Colombian dancer, choreographer, businessman, and Zumba instructor.He created the exercise fitness program Zumba in the late 1990s which involves dance and aerobic exercise elements with accompanying music, specifically Latin, and associated martial arts moves, squats, lunges, and other aerobic techniques.
On March 27, 2020, Mimiyuuuh hosted an online zumba session to help raise funds for charity; the funds would be donated to Caritas Manila and Save San Roque. [ 13 ] [ 14 ] A video of Mimiyuuuh dancing to Gagong Rapper's song "Kabet" was published on the video-sharing platform TikTok on August 21, 2020; the internet sensation went viral again ...
The Bayanihan Philippine National Folk Dance Company is the oldest dance company in the Philippines. [1] A multi-awarded company, both nationally and internationally, [ 2 ] Guillermo Gomez Rivera has called it the "depository of almost all Filipino dances , dress and songs."
Filipino dance styles like the kumintang, type of song and dance, and dances like the Pampangois, a dance distinguished for its lion-like actions and hand clapping, were pushed aside when Spanish colonist had come. However, they were later remade with influences from new Spanish dances such as the fandango, lanceros, curacha, and rigodon. [40]
The group was initially called the Leyte Filipiniana Dance Troupe. [4] Sister Mary Canisius, the school directress of Holy Infant College, is also credited as having encouraged the formation of the dance troupe. The troupe first performed in September 1961 at the same college's celebration of its College Day.
Ramon Arevalo Obusan (June 16, 1938 – December 21, 2006) was a Filipino dancer, choreographer, stage designer and artistic director. Obusan is credited for his work in promoting Philippine traditional dance and cultural work. He is also an acclaimed archivist, researcher and documentary filmmaker who focused on Philippine culture.