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  2. Carioca (1933 song) - Wikipedia

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    It was a mixture of samba, maxixe, foxtrot and rhumba. The distinctive feature of the dance – at least as portrayed in the movie – was that it was to be danced with the partners' foreheads touching. [2] A French cover of the song was introduced in the comedy movie La Cité de la peur (1994) along with a dance, also meant in a humoristic way ...

  3. Line dance - Wikipedia

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    The Chicken Dance is an example of a line dance adopted by the Mod revival during the 1980s. [18] The music video for the 1990 Billy Ray Cyrus song "Achy Breaky Heart" has been credited for launching line dancing into the mainstream. [2] [19] [20] [21] In the 1990s, the hit Spanish dance song "Macarena" inspired a popular line dance. [22]

  4. Conga line - Wikipedia

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    A conga line formed during a Christmas disco party. The conga line is a novelty line dance that was derived from the Cuban carnival dance of the same name and became popular in the US in the 1930s and 1950s. In order to perform the dance, dancers form a long, processing line, which would usually turn into a circle.

  5. List of dances - Wikipedia

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    Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance) Big Apple (Line dance) Bihu dance (Folk dance of Assam, India) Binasuan; Biyelgee (Mongolian) Bizhu dance; Black Bottom (see Lindy Hop) Blues (Club dance, Swing) Bolero (American Ballroom, Cuban, European) Bollywood (Indian) Bomba (Ecuador) Bomba (Puerto Rico) (African, Caribbean) Bon Odori (Japanese ...

  6. Samba - Wikipedia

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    These were the cases of Samba de Gafieira, a dance style developed in the ballroom dance of suburban clubs in Rio de Janeiro frequented by people with low purchasing power throughout the 1940s and 1950s and which also became a fad among upper-middle-class people in the 1960s, [338] [339] and the samba rock, a dance style born in the São Paulo ...

  7. Category:Line dances - Wikipedia

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  8. Rufus Wainwright on Creating a ‘Somber Samba’ Closing Song ...

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    When Rufus Wainwright was asked to write a closing theme song for “Rebel Hearts,” a documentary about a renegade order of socially activist nuns that opens this weekend, he didn’t require ...

  9. Latin dance - Wikipedia

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    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 ...