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Culture & dance history
Origins, history and stories of the Caribbean and Latin dances we teach in the studio.
Formalized by Enrique Jorrin in 1951 out of the mambo, the cha cha cha became one of the most famous musical genres and dances of all time.
Read the story→StoryFrom Cuban folklore to the Palladium in New York: the story of the mambo, the most frenzied of Latin dances, made legendary by Perez Prado and Tito Puente.
Read the story→StoryBorn in eastern Cuba from the fusion of African rhythms and Spanish strings, the son is the genre that has most influenced salsa the world over.
Read the story→StoryThe origin and evolution of the kizomba: from the Angola of the early '80s to the world, between semba, zouk and a slow, sensual rhythm.
Read the story→StoryBorn in Santo Domingo as a popular celebration, the bachata is an Antillean bolero with marginal roots that became a couples' dance loved all over the world.
Read the story→StoryFrom ancient Greece to modern ballet: the history of dance, humankind's first artistic expression, whose instrument is the body itself.
Read the story→StoryBorn in the solares after the abolition of slavery, Cuban rumba lives on in its three styles — Columbia, Guaguancó, and Yambú — alongside the Puerto Rican bomba.
Read the story→StoryFrom Son Cubano to New York's Fania All Stars: the origins, evolution, and curiosities of one of the most beloved Caribbean genres in the world.
Read the story→StoryThe history of the human, racial, and cultural synthesis that gave rise to Cuban music and dance over the course of many decades.
Read the story→StoryTwo rhythms that set the Latin neighborhoods of New York ablaze in the Sixties: the festive pachanga and the metropolitan boogaloo of Joe Cuba and Pete Rodriguez.
Read the story→StoryBorn between Puerto Rico and Panamá from the fusion of reggae, dancehall, hip hop and Caribbean rhythms, reggaetòn became the voice of young Hispanic Americans.
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