Latin

American
Dances
 Rumba

– The word rumba is a genric term, covering a variety of names for a type of
west indian music or dancing

– The word rumba comes from the word “rumbear” which means going to
parties dancing, and having a good time.

– The “rumba influence” came in the 16th century with the black slaves
imported from Africa.
– The music is played with a staccato beat
– Rumba is the spirit and soul of Latin American music and dance.
 Monsieur Pierre

– He was an American Dancer and dance teacher

– Pierre and Lavelle introduced the true “Cuban Rumba” which was finally
established after much argument, as the official recognized version in
1955
Picture of Monsieur Pierre and his Partner
Lavelle Doris
 Maxixe

– The Maxixe, occasionally known as the Brazillian Tango, is a dance, with its
accompanying music, like Subgenre of Choro. That originated in the
Brazillian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868,

– At about the same time as the Tango was developing in neighboring

country Argentina and Uruguay. It is a dance developed from
Afro-Brazillian dances (mainly the Lundu) and European Dances
(mainly the Polka)
Fred Astaire

Fred Astaire (born Frederick

Austerlitz; May 10, 1899 – June 22, 1987)
was an
American dancer, singer, actor, choreogra
pher, and television presenter. He is
widely considered the most influential
dancer in the history of film.
 Foxtrot

– The Foxtrot originated in the summer of 1914 by Vaudeville actor Harry

Fox. Born Arthur Carringforn in Pomona, California, in 1882, he adopted
the stage name of “Fox” after his grandfather

– The Fox-Trot originated in the Jardin de Danse on the roof of the New York
Theater. As part of his act downstairs, Harry Fox was doing trotting steps to
ragtime music, and people reffered to his dance as “Fox’s Trot”
– The Foxtrot was the most significant Development in all of ballroom
dancing.
– There are more variety in Fox-Trot than in any other dance, and in some
ways it is the hardest dance to learn
– Variations of the foxtrot include the Peabody, the QuickStep, the Roseland
Foxtrot. Even dances such as the lindy and the hustle are derived to some
extent from the Foxtrot.
Harry Fox (Founder)

• Fox is most notably famous for being

related as name-source to the Fox
Trot dance in New York. In "Dance Mad"
by F. Leslie Clendenen (August 15, 1914)
the following appears on page 163: "FOX
TROT No.2 (as danced by Mr Fox)".
– Harry Fox made a few recordings of popular songs and appeared in a few
silent films, most notably the serial Beatrice Fairfax with Grace Darling.
On Broadway in 1915, he appeared opposite Nora Bayes in the
play/musical Maid in America.
 Cha-Cha

– Cha cha originated in Cuba and evolved from a slow version of Mambo
called “Triple Mambo” or Mambo with guiro rhythm. This musical rhythm
inspired dancers to dance a hip syncopation to the forward and back
breaks of a Mambo which late evolved to a triple step.

– Enrique Jorrin, a Cuban Violinist created the first cha cha song in 1948. he
named it after the shuffling sound the dancers shoes made when they
dance to this type of music.
– This is a fun, flirty dance that grew out of the Cuban Mambo and became
immensely popular in the United States in the 1950’s. it consists of triple
chasse steps (cha cha cha’s) and rock steps.
Enrique Jorrin

At an early age, his family moved to the

El Cerro neighborhood of Havana, where
Jorrín was to live for the rest of his life.

He started out as a violinist in the orchestra

of Cuba's National Institute of Music, under
the direction of González Mantici. In 1941
– In the early 1950s, while a member of Ninón
Mondéjar's Orquesta América, he created a new genre of
dance music which became known as the cha-cha-chá.