rumba
This captivating favorite of Latin
American Dancers throughout the
world is characterized by strong
leg and hip action which adds to
the styling of the sensual Rumba.
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rumba
✗ Rumba, spelled as rhumba, is a ballroom dance of Afro-Cuban
folk-dance roots, which became internationally famous in the
early 20th century.
✗ Best known for the subtle side-to-side hip motions of the
dancers with an upright chest, the rumba dances with a simple
pattern of two fast side steps and a slow forward step.
✗ Rumba is one of the sexiest and sensual of all Latin dance styles
due to its slow rhythms and hip movements that produce intense
body expressions.
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HISTORY OF
RUMBA
✗ Rumba acknowledged as the dance of passion/love.
✗ It's danced to slow, sensual music with a Latin beat and features a hip
movement known as "Cuban Motion.
✗ It's developed from "Son" and "Danzon," which transpires from Cuba. "Son" is
a reorganized version of Cuban Rumba, together with other African influences.
In the 16th century.
✗ Cuban Rumba arrived in Cuba with the black slaves from Africa, and it's
performed to a fiery orchestra of drums.
✗ This folkloric dance is a sex pantomime danced fast while exaggerating the hip
movements.
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HISTORY OF
RUMBA
✗ "Son" music started to develop in the latter half of the 19th century in Cuba's Oriente
province.
✗ "Danzon" is the freer and natural version of "Danza." It came to Cuba in the 18th century
with a Spanish name "Contradanza" derived from "Contredanse" in the 17th century.
✗ "Son" did not become famous to Americans after Lew Quinn and Joan Sawyer introduced
it in 1913, then by Emil Coleman in 1923 and Benito Collada in 1925. Until renamed to
"Rumba."
✗ Then, a famous orchestra leader named Xavier Cugat popularized Rumba in the late
1920s. In 1930, "The Peanut Vendor" by Don Azpiazu's Havana Casino Orchestra was
released, and it became a hit as the new dance craze. While in the mid-1950s, it was
introduced to Europe by Pierre Lavelle and has evolved to today's "Ballroom Rumba."
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✗BASIC
DANCE
STEPS IN
RUMBA 6
1st - CLOSED BASIC
1st - CLOSED BASIC
2nd - OPEN BASIC
2nd - OPEN BASIC
3rd - NEW YORK
4th - UNDERARM TURN
4th - UNDERARM TURN
5th - SWITCH TURN
5th - SWITCH TURN
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