Salsa

Salsa

Industry: Dance

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Salsa

Slow and seductive Cuban dance. The style was discovered in Havana in the mid 19th Century. Back then the habanera spread through Spain, taken by sailors who would come and go between Spanish ports ...

carioca

Dance; Salsa

The ballroom dance, which was first heard by the masses through a song in the 1933 movie "Flying Down To Rio" with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers.

beguine

Dance; Salsa

The beguine is a dance and music form, similar to a slow rumba, that was popular in the 1930s, coming from the islands of Guadeloupe and Martinique, where in local Creole Beke or Begue means a White ...

bolero

Dance; Salsa

An Afro-Latin ballad form usually with romantic lyric content.

acheri

Dance; Salsa

A small rattle or shaker made of either metal, wood, gourd, coconut or other material, used to play the standard bell patterns or other accompaniments in Batα ensembles.

afro

Dance; Salsa

A rhythmic style combining adaptations of sacred batα drum rhythms popularized in Cuba in the 1940s, and often used to interpret lullabies.

abanico

Dance; Salsa

Literally, "fan"; a stylized roll played by the timbalero usually to signify a change in the music (i.e. from verse to chorus). The Spanish word for fan, used to describe the Timbales figure (roll ...