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Cuban dance

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history of Latin American dance

  • Aztec round dance
    In Latin American dance: Cuba

    …20th centuries Cuba’s habanera, danzón, son (not to be confused with the Mexican son), cha-cha-chá, and mambo would continue the island’s influence on dance throughout Latin America.

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  • Aztec round dance
    In Latin American dance: Cuba

    …was refashioned into the Cuban son of the 1920s by the incorporation of more Afro-Cuban dance elements—such as hip isolation, the tornillo (a man’s pivot on a single foot as he fully flexes the support leg)—and the discarding the descanso. The mambo was made popular by the Cuban musician Pérez…

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