latin dance?

Question

can u tell me all about latin dance?

Answer 1

What in particular? This is exremely broad subject.

Latin dance is the origin for many Nightclub dances and Latin Ballroom dances, for example. What is that you wanted to know? There is original latin dancing, and there is social and ballroom latin dancing. There is technique and there are steps, and there a different rhythms. One common and important concept to a Latin rhythm is clave.... But what is that you wanted to know about?

Answer 2

INTRODUCTION
Many dances popular around the world have originated in Latin America, for example the Bolero, Carimbo, Conga, Cueca, Cumbia, Joropo, Lambada, Macarena, Mambo, Merengue, Rueda, and the Salsa. Three such dances : the Samba, Rumba, and Cha Cha, plus the Paso Doble from Europe and the Jive from North America, have been singled out and are now performed all over the world as Latin-American dances in international DanceSport competitions, as well as being danced socially. These dances are for couples, usually each consisting of a man and a lady. The holds vary from figure to figure in these dances, sometimes in closed ballroom hold, sometimes with the partners holding each other with only one hand. The figures in these dances are standardised and categorised into various levels for teaching, with internationally agreed vocabularies, techniques, rhythms and tempos. But it was not always so. These 'Latin-American' dances were only been introduced into Western-European society in the twentieth century, and have some diverse origins in previous eras.

The Romance languages (for example : Italian, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Rumanian) are derived from the ancient Latin language, and define a culture that has spread over a substantial part of the Americas. Three dances from this area plus one from Spain/France and one from the U.S.A. constitute the set of dances now internationally standardised as the 'Latin-American' dances. Note that the term 'Latin-American' here is an abbreviation of 'Latin and American' rather than a reference to the geographic area of 'Latin America' (Margolie, 1975, 1).

And so on........i DONT know if this helped any though

Answer 3

The term Latin dances in the context of social and ballroom dances may be used in two meanings.

The first meaning is to denote dances originated in Latin America. Typically these are Cha cha, Rumba, Samba, Salsa, Mambo, Merengue, Bachata, Cumbia, Bolero. Some dance instructors also include Tango and Argentine tango in this list, although these differ from the rest in their style. In Argentina Tango is not considered folk dance as it is the case of dances like Chacarera, Gato, Escondido and Zamba. Tipical Bolivian folk dances are Morenada, Kullawada, Llamerada, Caporales and the recently created Tinku. In Columbia one of the tipical dances is the Cumbia, not to be mistaken by the very popular Argentinian Cumbia, some sort of low-class rap emerged from the slums of Buenos Aires.

The second, a more formal usage, is the name of a category of International style ballroom dances, also called Latin American dances or International Latin. It consists of the following five dances: Cha cha, Rumba, Samba, Paso Doble, Jive. Notice that the last two dances are not of Latin American origin.

Compared to typical ballroom dances, Latin dances are generally faster-paced, more sensual, and have more rhythmic expression. Time is 4/4 straight rhythm or related. Couples in the basic position stand face-to-face. Music may be Latin American traditional or contemporary popular music..

Answer 4

It's fun, and it's a great work out-- Most movement is from the hips. The rest I'm sure you can google or copy from wikipedia.