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This dance was exclusively danced at the Club Casino Deportivo, but quickly spread to other clubs around the beachfronts and later to the capital. While the dance became popular, so did the phrases "vamos a hacer la rueda como en el Casino" (let's go dance "rueda" like in the Casino) and "vamos a hacer la rueda del Casino" (let's go dance ...
A few American gentlemen's clubs maintain separate "city" and "country" clubhouses, essentially functioning as both a traditional gentlemen's club in one location and a country club in another: the Piedmont Driving Club in Atlanta, the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee, [6] the New York Athletic Club in New York City, the Union League of Philadelphia ...
The term "salsa" was coined by Johnny Pacheco in the 1960s in New York, as an umbrella term for Cuban dance music being played in the city at the time. [2] Salsa as a dance emerged soon after, being a combination of mambo (which was popular in New York in the 1950s) as well as Latin dances such as Son and Rumba as well as American dances such as swing, hustle, and tap.
Latin dance is a mix of various dance styles from cultures around the world, creating a dance style encompassing this new age of Latin culture. [9] Influences deriving from West African, African American, and European dance styles were all comprised in the making of many of these Latin dances such as: Salsa , Mambo , Merengue , Rumba, Cha-cha ...
A nightclub is a club that is open at night, usually for drinking, dancing and other entertainment. Nightclubs often have a bar and discothèque (usually simply known as disco) with a dance floor, laser lighting displays, and a stage for live music or a disc jockey (DJ) who mixes recorded music.
The original ballroom dance which emerged in Cuba and Mexico was related to the danzón, albeit faster and less rigid. In the United States, it replaced rhumba as the most fashionable Latin dance. Later on, with the advent of salsa and its more sophisticated dance, a new type of mambo dance including breaking steps was popularized in New York ...
The current full title is the Elsa Wells International Dance Championships, and includes all categories in Standard and Latin American ballroom dance. The series of Latin American International Championships were started once the initial choreography, teaching and adjudications standards for these dances were stabilised.
Aboriginal Islander Dance Theatre, Australia (defunct) Australian Dance Council; British Association of Teachers of Dance; bbodance (formerly the British Ballet Organisation) - musical theatre, ballet, jazz, tap, modern; CDMT (Council for Dance, Drama and Musical Theatre), UK; Dancewave, Brooklyn, New York City