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  2. Dance from Cuba - Wikipedia

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    Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. [3] It is also an active musical form in Mexico and is still beloved in Puerto Rico. The danzón evolved from the Cuban contradanza (also known as the habanera). In Cuba, these dances were influenced by African rhythmic and dance styles and so became a genuine fusion of European and ...

  3. Danzón - Wikipedia

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    Danzón is the official musical genre and dance of Cuba. [1] It is also an active musical form in Mexico and Puerto Rico.Written in 2 4 time, the danzón is a slow, formal partner dance, requiring set footwork around syncopated beats, and incorporating elegant pauses while the couples stand listening to virtuoso instrumental passages, as characteristically played by a charanga or típica ensemble.

  4. List of dances - Wikipedia

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    Dabke (Arab folk dance native to the Levant) Daggering. Dalkhai (Folk dance from Western Odisha, India) Dance of Osman Taka. Dance video games (emotes from video games) Dancer's Delight (Scottish) Dances of Universal Peace. Danda Nata (Folk dance from Odisha, India) Dandiya Raas.

  5. List of styles of music: A–F - Wikipedia

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    Danzón – Cuban dance music. Dappankuthu – Indian folk dance music, popular in the states of Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, often used as filmi music in the movies produced in those states. Dark ambient – a style of industrial music that takes elements from ambient music to create a feeling of dread and foreboding, rather than the relaxation ...

  6. Cha-cha-cha (dance) - Wikipedia

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    Cuba. The cha-cha-cha (also called cha-cha) is a dance of Cuban origin. [1][2] It is danced to cha-cha-cha music introduced by the Cuban composer and violinist Enrique Jorrin in the early 1950s. This rhythm was developed from the danzón-mambo. The name of the dance is an onomatopoeia derived from the shuffling sound of the dancers' feet when ...

  7. La tecnica cubana - Wikipedia

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    La técnica cubana, often abbreviated as técnica, is a form of Cuban contemporary dance that was founded by Ramiro Guerra Suarez in Cuba in 1959. [1] Unlike other forms of traditional Cuban dance, técnica fuses many different dance forms together, such as those from Africa, Europe, and North America. It is a highly expressive and robust dance ...

  8. Latin jazz - Wikipedia

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    Latin jazz. Latin jazz is a genre of jazz with Latin American rhythms. The two main categories are Afro-Cuban jazz, rhythmically based on Cuban popular dance music, with a rhythm section employing ostinato patterns or a clave, and Afro-Brazilian jazz, which includes samba and bossa nova.

  9. Cha-cha-chá (music) - Wikipedia

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    Venezuela. v. t. e. Cha-cha-chá rhythm. [1] Cha-cha-chá (Spanish pronunciation: [ˌtʃa ˌtʃa ˈtʃa]) is a genre of Cuban music. It has been a popular dance music which developed from the Danzón-mambo in the early 1950s, and became widely popular throughout the world.