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The Rumberas film (in Spanish, Cine de rumberas) was a film genre that flourished in Mexico's Golden Age of Mexican cinema in the 1940s and 1950s. Its major stars were the so-called rumberas, dancers of Afro-Caribbean musical rhythms. The genre is a film curiosity, one of the most fascinating hybrids of the international cinema.
This is the main list of dances. It is a non-categorized, index list of specific dances. It may also include dances which could either be considered specific dances or a family of related dances. For example, ballet, ballroom dance and folk dance can be single dance styles or families of related dances. See following for categorized lists: List ...
The following article lists the monthly number-one songs on the Mexican Selecciones Musicales chart from January 1950 to December 1960. The source for these charts is the book Musicosas: manual del comentarista de radio y televisión by Roberto Ayala, who was the director of the Selecciones Musicales magazine.
Ida Herion (1896–1959), modernist dance teacher in Stuttgart; Carolina Hermann (born 1988), ice dancer; Reinhild Hoffmann (born 1966), show dancer; Hanya Holm (1893–1992), major contributor to modern dance in the United States, especially Broadway musicals; Dore Hoyer (1911–1967), expressionist dancer, choreographer, teacher, associate of ...
The exaggerated hand and arm gestures of some ballroom styles are not part of this style. Couples may frequently dance in the promenade position, depending on local preferences. Within Country Western waltz, there is the Spanish Waltz and the more modern (for the late 1930s- early 1950s) Pursuit Waltz.
The year 1960 marked the beginning of a new era, with the appearance of the first nationwide rock and roll hits: "La hiedra venenosa" (a cover of The Coasters' "Poison Ivy") by Los Rebeldes del Rock, and "La plaga" (a cover of Little Richard's "Good Golly, Miss Molly") by Los Teen Tops, paving the way for rock and roll music (usually through ...
1 1950s. 2 1960s. 3 1970s. 4 1980s. ... Printable version; In other projects ... This is a list of number-one hits in Spain by year from the chart compiled weekly by ...
The word "Rueda" is Spanish for a "wheel," referring to the typically circular format of the dance. Rueda dancing requires a minimum of two couples, but could be as large as the maximum number of couples who can create a circle in the dance venue. (If necessary, multiple concentric circles can even be formed.)