PEH

• Latin American dance - indigenous heritage, colorful history, and numerous influences are represented in this beautiful, moving art form
• Latin American dances - have been a strong influence not only on the dance floors worldwide but also in annual global sports competitions.
• Latin American dances - so popular that they are also part of the world’s most prestigious sporting competition, the Olympic Games!
• Latin America - a group of countries found in the western hemisphere with 19 sovereign states, several territories, and dependencies.
• Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba - countries in Latin America.
• Mexico, Brazil, and Cuba became territories of European countries like - Spain, Portugal, and the United States of America.
• competitive ballroom dance - other name for dancesport
• Dancesport - involves a male and a female executing rehearsed dance routines when competing with other pairs during the contest.
• Dancesport - meeting point of sport and arts
• Imperial Society of Teachers of Dancing - ISTD
• International Olympic Committee recognizes dancesport which led to its inclusion in the quadrennial meet of athletes - the Olympic games
• Under the supervision of the World Dance Council (WDC) and the World DanceSport Federation (WDSF), dancesport is promoted, monitored, and developed.
• international Latin dances - well known for their prominence in the world of dancesport
• Samba is Brazil’s official national dance although its origin is from a different continent - Africa.
• Samba - It is accompanied by lively and upbeat music to express fun and celebration during a big celebration like the Carnival in Rio de Janeiro.
• The African slaves brought their native rhythm in dancing the Rumba to America, although Cuba is the most related country to this dance in the 1600s.
• Paso doble - Inspired by the iconic Spanish event bullfighting
• Paso Doble - involved sharp and quick actions, suggesting pride and confidence.
• Even if people started to perform this in the fifties, Cha-Cha-Cha is relatively new in the Latin American dance scene.
• Cha-cha-cha - The spotlight hit this Latin dance after the success of Mambo.
• Enrique Jorrin - the famous cuban composer who later on came up with a rhythm to which Cha-Cha-Cha’s movements fit.
• Cha-cha - title of Jorrin's masterpiece
• Rock n' Roll - other name for Jive
• Jive - reached the limelight across European countries and the United Kingdom because of its perky, energetic, and very happy movements.
• Jive - has a lot of kicks, flicks, and twirling traces its roots in the United States.
• samba, cha-cha-cha, rumba, paso doble, jive - international latin dances considered as dance styles
• the five dance styles, waltz, tango, viennese waltz, slow foxtrot, quickstep - standard dances
• guaguanco, yambu, columbia - three rhythms in rumba
• Ballroom - the generic term for all partner dances which includes the Latin American dances.
• Ballare - latin word which means to dance (origin of the word ballroom)
• ballroom - should be a large space specifically designed and used for dancing
• modern - newer dances
• standard - another name for ballroom dancing
• modern standard dances - collection of dances that are part of international dancesport competitions
• tango - first danced in europe before world war I
• tango - the steps of this dramatic dance were first seen in performances in the slums of Buenos Aires, Argentina, and are popular with the immigrant laborers, musicians, and people in Argentina and Uruguay.
• It took almost fifty years for Waltz to become as popular as Tango
• waltz - debuted in england in 1874 but caught the limelight in 1922
• waltz - a vast improvement in its dancing mechanics and technics resulted in more alternative versions of the dance
• ISTD - refined waltz and set a standard in executing the steps for this smooth rise and fall dance