2. A dance that evolved in Buenos Aires at the end of the 19th century, the tango is probably derived from the milling, a lively, suggestive Argentinean dance, and the habanera of Cuba and the West Indies. By the 1920s it had become a popular ballroom dance in Europe and the United States, and had been transformed into a flowing, elegant series of steps accompanied by somewhat melancholy music with a characteristic tango beat.

3. The bolero is a Spanish dance in moderate 3/4 time, with sharp turns, brilliant arm and hand movements, and stamping feet. It is also a Cuban song/dance form in slow to moderate 4/4 time, with lyrical love texts. The bolero is extremely popular in Latin America and is a standard international ballroom dance (sometimes misnamed rhumba).

4. Paso doble has developed into Spanish folk-dance and it's style is march. It was used to play in the beginning ceremony of the bull fights. In the dance the man is matador and the women is muleta s.c. descriptively the stake that is used in the bull fight.

6. Flamenco is the term used to designate a particular style of song, dance, and guitar music that originated in Andalucia in southern Spain The roots of flamenco are not known, but it is believed that Gypsies were primarily responsible for developing and popularizing the style.

7. A Cuban dance that evolved from the mambo, the cha cha rose to great popularity in the mid 1950s. The pause found in the mambo was changed to a rapid triple step. Although the basic pattern is uncomplicated, the dance is varied by turns, change of direction, and improvised steps.steps.

9. Merengue is a very popular vocal and dance style from the Dominican Republic. It developed in the early 19th century and is related to the meringue of Haiti. The merengue rhythm is a moderate to extremely fast duple meter, and is danced with a simple sideways couple two-step. It is found in both folk music, using accordion, double-headed tambora drum, and metal guayo scraper, and in various popular orchestral formats. Important performers and banndleaders include Viloria, Johnny Ventura, and Juan Luis Guerra.Juan Luis Guerra.

10. Latin dance music of the 1940s--which used trumpets, flutes, and voices--and the dance rhythms of the 1950s that have had varying degrees of popularity since then- the rumba, mambo, and chacha. The electric guitar,along with electronic techniques, has been added from rock, along with the instrumentation and improvisational skills of jazz. Salsa musicians include performers such as Cuban singer Celia Cruz and bandleader Tito Puente, whose careers predate salsa, as well as younger musicians including band leader Eddie Palmieri, trombonist Willie Colon, flute player Johnny Pacheco, and percussionist Ray Barretto.

11. Mambo represents a mixture of all five rhythms of Latin American dances. The mambomovements are erotic and sensitive as in rumba, brisk and imperious as in passo doble, still explosive as jive and passionate as samba or cha-cha. Mambo technique is similar but not equal to rumba and cha-cha. The mambo music resembles to samba or quick rumba.

12. Rumba is a type of medium-to-fast polyrhythmic Afro-Cuban song and dance, with a three-part form of introduction, improvised verses, and repetitive call-and-response. It is typically accompanied by 2 to 3 conga drums and sticks. This structure has been adapted for Cuban popular music ensembles. Rhumba is an American term for various Cuban song and dance genres- -for example, the son or bolero, which are not actually rumbas but were popular dance music styles in the United States during the 1930s and '40s.

13. A group dance of African roots, developed mainly in Cuba. Its rhythm is also called conga, and it's played and dance during Carnivals in Cuba.

15. Samba Samba is the music and dance of Brazilian Carnival: a spectacle that can amount to up to four hundred drummers and several thousand dancers. Samba is the music of the African slaves transported to Latin America and has strong links to Western African drumming forms. It is highly percussive and uses large drums (surdos), bells (cowbwlls and double- and triple-toned agogos), high pitched drums (repaniques), snare drums (caixas, tamborins, ganzas, gueiros, chocaihos, panderos) and other instruments large and small.

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