What type of dance is the Mambo?

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Answer 1

Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuban origin that corresponds to mambo music. It is rhythmically similar to the slower bolero, though it has a more complex pattern of steps. The saxophone usually sets the syncopated rhythm, while the other brass carries the melody.

In the late 1940s, a musician named Perez Prado came up with the dance for the mambo music and became the first person to market his music as "mambo". After Havana, Prado moved his music to Mexico, and then New York City. Along the way, his style became increasingly homogenized in order to appeal to mainstream American listeners.

There were two forms of mambo dance: single and triple (sometimes called double mambo). The former one has been retained as modern mambo; the latter one is thought to be an origin of the Cha-cha-cha.

Mambo is at the roots of the Salsa dance and is a part of the American Rhythm group of American Style ballroom dances.

The rhythm of steps is unusual in comparison to most other dances. It can be counted as "quick-quick-slow", the first "quick" is on the beat 2 of the measure and the "slow" step crosses the boundary of the musical measure and performed on counts "4", "1".

Answer 2

With Cuban origins in the Son, the mambo is a fast social dance that is part of the standard curriculum in American ballroom. It enjoyed tremendous popularity in the '50's and is perhaps best known today from the movie "Dirty Dancing," which was set in the early '60's. The music and many of the steps are identical to salsa dancing, and such a notable as Tito Puente thought salsa was only a street form of mambo.

Answer 3

Mambo is a Cuban musical form and dance style. The word mambo (conversation with the gods) is the name of a priestess in Haitian Voodoo, derived from the language of the African slaves who were imported into the Caribbean.

Answer 4

Its an intimate dance between two lovers that was started in Cuba by Perez Prado(Mambo) In some parts of Cuba it is sometimes called the "Devil's Dance".It is a myth that the orignal true "Mambo" was a a voodoo priestess who served villages as counsellor, healer, exorcist,soothsayer and spiritual adviser. Master the dance well and you could find yourself conversating with the gods.

Answer 5

Other answerers have given accurate definitions for you. In addition to it's traditional definition, the New York on2 style of salsa is commonly referred to as the mambo today also. Go figure.

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Answer 7

It's some kind of Cuban dance. Perry Como once sang a song about that.

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cuban.