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  2. Samba (Brazilian dance) - Wikipedia

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    Samba is a lively dance of Afro-Brazilian origin in 2/4(2 by 4) time danced to samba music. The term "baby" originally referred to any of several Latin duet dances with origins from the Congo and Angola. Today Samba is the most prevalent dance form in Brazil, and reaches the height of its importance during the festival of Carnaval. [1]

  3. Samba (ballroom dance) - Wikipedia

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    The ballroom samba is a partner dance. The ballroom samba is danced to music in 2 4 or 4 4 time. For dance competitions and examinations, the recommended tempo is 48-56 bars per minute. It uses several different rhythmic patterns in its figures, with cross-rhythms being a common feature. Thus, for three-step patterns, common step values (in ...

  4. Samba - Wikipedia

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    These were the cases of Samba de Gafieira, a dance style developed in the ballroom dance of suburban clubs in Rio de Janeiro frequented by people with low purchasing power throughout the 1940s and 1950s and which also became a fad among upper-middle-class people in the 1960s, [338] [339] and the samba rock, a dance style born in the São Paulo ...

  5. Samba de Gafieira - Wikipedia

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    Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (dança de salão, literally, "salon dance"). [1] Samba de Gafieira differs from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom ...

  6. Chula (music) - Wikipedia

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    Chula in Bahia, Brazil, Santo Amaro da Purificação and surrounding areas, is an expression of the African-Brazilian culture. It is a style of samba practiced during dance festivals and involves short steps and cyclical movements typical of samba. The music features strong drum rhythms and call-and-response guitar or viola playing.

  7. Category:Brazilian dances - Wikipedia

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    Samba (Brazilian dance) Samba de Gafieira; Suscia; X. Xaxado This page was last edited on 21 April 2015, at 21:10 (UTC). Text is available under the ...

  8. Botafogo (dance move) - Wikipedia

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    Botafogo dance moves are often mentioned various times on the British television show BBC One's Strictly Come Dancing, when the dancers perform various Latin dances.They were also used on the professional dancers' challenge during the Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two (a companion show to the main Strictly Come Dancing TV show) 2011 season.

  9. Bossa nova - Wikipedia

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    Bossa nova (Portuguese pronunciation: [ˈbɔsɐ ˈnɔvɐ] ⓘ) is a relaxed style of samba [nb 1] developed in the late 1950s and early 1960s in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. [2] It is mainly characterized by a calm syncopated rhythm with chords and fingerstyle mimicking the beat of a samba groove, as if it was a simplification and stylization on the guitar of the rhythm produced by a samba school band.