Latin dances

dance form

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dance of Cuban origin

Latin dance from Cuba

dance style

thumb|320px|The Banda Calypso in 2009

wide range of dances originating in Latin America, Cuba and Puerto Rico

Bolero is a genre of song which originated in eastern Cuba in the late 19th century as part of the trova tradition. Unrelated to the older Spanish dance of the same name, bolero is characterized by sophisticated lyrics dealing with love. It has been called the "quintessential Latin American romantic song of the twentieth century".

social dance from the Dominican Republic

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ballroom version of samba is a lively, rhythmical dance with elements from Brazilian samba

right|thumb|Dance notation|Dance score for , by [[Friedrich Albert Zorn.]]

The guaracha () is a genre of music that originated in Cuba, of rapid tempo and comic or picaresque lyrics. The word has been used in this sense at least since the late 18th and early 19th century. Guarachas were played and sung in musical theatres and in working-class dance salons. They became an integral part of bufo comic theatre in the mid-19th century. During the later 19th and the early 20th century the guaracha was a favourite musical form in the brothels of Havana. The guaracha survives today in the repertoires of some trova musicians, conjuntos and Cuban-style big bands.

dance form

Sandungueo, also known as perreo, is a style of dance and party music associated with reggaeton that emerged in the late 1980s in Puerto Rico. The style was developed by DJ Blass, who released the albums Sandunguero Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and it was further popularized worldwide through the website Sandungueo.com.

style of Dominican dance

type of dance

Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce, a city in southern Puerto Rico. It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz. Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence dances, performed to a pattern, usually of squares, to music that was instrumental. Neither the contradanza nor the danza were sung genres; this is a contrast to, for example, the habanera, which was a sung genre. There is some dispute as to whether the danza was in any sense a different dance from the contradanza, or whether it was just a simplification of

Peruvian musical style derived from the Colombian cumbia