Tari Latin
Tari Latin adalah sebuah label umum, dan sebuah istilah dalam jargon kompetisi tari berpasangan. Ini merujuk kepada jenis tari ballroom dan tari rakyat yang (dengan beberapa pengecualian) berasal dari Amerika Latin.
Kategori tari Latin dalam kompetisi olahraga tari mancanegara terdiri dari cha-cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, dan juga jive dari Amerika Serikat.[1][2] Tarian Latin Sosial (Latin Jalanan) termasuk salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, bachata, bomba dan plena. Ada banyak tarian yang populer pada paruh pertama abad ke-20, tetapi sekarang hanya memiliki kepentingan sejarah.
Referensi
[sunting | sunting sumber]- ^ Lavelle, Doris 1983. Latin & American dances. 3rd ed, Black, London, p108.
- ^ The reason jive is included with the latin dances is because its dancestyle is similar: "... a non-progressive dance which can be danced in a small space when the floor is crowded". and "The hold is similar to latin dances" [meaning, it is quite different from the modern or ballroom dances]. Silvester, Victor 1977. Dancing: ballroom, latin-american and social, 105/6. ISBN 0-340-22517-3. Teach Yourself Books
Bacaan tambahan
[sunting | sunting sumber]- Sévigny, Jean-Pierre. Sierra Norteña: the Influence of Latin Music on the French-Canadian Popular Song and Dance Scene, Especially as Reflected in the Career of Alys Robi and the Pedagogy of Maurice Lacasse-Morenoff. Montréal: Productions Juke-Box, 1994. 13 p. N.B. Published text of a paper prepared for, and presented on, on 12 March 1994, the conference, Popular Music Music & Identity (Montréal, Qué., 12–13 March 1994), under the auspices of the Canadian Branch of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music.