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• Cha- cha is a form of mambo to rumba beat, originated by the Cuban orchestras.
• Charleston, a modern social dance of the jitterbug variety, originated in Charleston, S.C. and,

  around 1925, conquered the dance halls all over the world.
• Cotillion, a dance popular during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, is named after

  the French word for petticoat, found in then popular song.
• Country-dance or square dance is an English of folk like character originating in the seventeenth

  century.
• Courante is a dance in duple time at first pantomimic, originating in the sixteenth century.
• Mambo is an American Social dance derived from the rumba.
• Meringue is a Latin-American dance of Dominican origin, introduced to the United States.
• Redowa is an early nineteenth-century Czech dance in moderate triple meter, derived from the

  Czech folk dance, rejdovak.
• Rigaudon is a French provencal dance of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in quick duple

  meter with an eight note upbeat.
• Rumba is a contemporary Cuban dance of Negro origin.
• Samba is a Brazilian dance in duple meter; also, in a broader sense, a term used for all Brazilian

  dances.
• Tango is leisurely measured ballroom dance in duple meter executed by couples and

  characterized by the rhythm, against which the melody is often syncopated.
• Waltz is a dance in moderate triple time originating in old Austrian and South German folk dances.
• Courante - The

  dance is mentioned in Arbeaus Orchesographie (1588) and several times by Shakespeare.
• Modern dance developed in early 1900s. the leaders of the modern dance movement believed that the

  techniques of ballet were artificial and meaningless.
• Isadora Duncan was one of the free-spirited modern dance pioneers. She danced in her feet and

  wore loose fitting garments that allowed her freedom of movement. She permitted no scenery onstage,
• Oriental religions inspired the dances of Ruth St. Denis. She won fame during a tour of Europe

  from 1906 to 1909. In 1915, St. Denis and her husband, Ted Shawn, opened the famous Denishawn

  School of Dancing.
• Mary Wigman became Europe’s first great modern dancer. She founded an influential dance in

  school in her native Germany in 1920.