I love Dancing
Especially Latin dancing
Latin dances are rather a large group of
dance styles that are united by their place of origin - Latin America
and invariably passionate rhythms and performances. Latin American
dances are a type of ballroom and club dances that spread throughout
Europe in the 19th century and became very popular. They owe their wide
popularity to curiously mixed cultures of the Americas, including
European and local folk dances. Thus, the Spanish folk dance, the
elements of which were performed by bullfighters during a bullfight,
became known throughout the world as a paso doble. Samba was brought to
Brazil, and then to Europe, African influence is seen in rumba and cha
cha cha which originated in Cuba and Haiti.The traditional program of
Latin Ballroom Dances, adopted by the World DanceSport Federation, since
1930 includes five dances in the Latin American section. These are
Samba, Rumba, Cha-Cha-Cha, Paso Doble and Jive (United States origine).
All of them are performed in a pair, a man and a woman and, unlike the
European dances, the partners during the performance can either separate
the contact, or cling to each other very closely. All Latin American
dances are rhythmic and emotional, and some of them are particularly
sensual.