Congas and Maracas drive the Rumba beat.
The Guaguanaco is faster and has a noted act, the Vacunao, where the female slaps out her skirt the handkerchief advances of the person. The Columbia is still augmented innovational and knotty where virile prowess is featured.
Cuban "Son"
As the Rumba gained in popularity in Cuba, the contrary social and economic classes modified the dance to their like.Charcoal slaves came to the Caribbean, Particulary Cuba, in the 1500s. The Africans brought their culture, including song and dance. Essentially a folk dance, the Rumba was a extremely breakneck, kissable and bombastic dance. Instruments that played this native dance included the drum and maracas.
Cuba: Home of the Rumba
In Cuba, the Rumba developed into three forms. The Yambu, Guaguanaco and Columbia. The Yambu is slower and the mainly entices on the other hand excludes the rumba hip thrusts.Rumba, the jumbo of the Salsa, the Cha-Cha-Cha and other Latino-Caribbean dances, is African in embodiment and culture. From rustic island dances encircling a charring to Hollywood dance numbers, the Rumba has grown over the remain hundred agedness into a ballroom favourite and Latin club leading.
African Origins
The "Sonny" and "Danzon" were slower versions of the Rumba and were adopted by the wealthier congregation of Cubans. Doing gone with the African "native" sensuality of the dance, the Rumba became a subdue and augmented positive dance to mainstream Cuba and eventually America.
Xavier Cugat and Rumba America
Famed band leader and composer Xavier Cugat brought his brand of "Rumba America" to Hollywood at his Coconut Grove club of the '20s and '30s. This slow big band style of Rumba made it into Hollywood films very.
The Modern Rumba
Whether in a ballroom class in middle America or an Afro-Cuban dance troupe in New York, the Rumba has thrived into a sensual dance. The two schools of rumba, slow and deliberate or fast and sexual, both convey an Afro-Cuban and now Latino Alma (soul) that is performed now across the globe. The Rumba has even been featured on the highly successful dance TV show, "Dancing with the Stars."
