STYLES DE DANSES
ROCK TAHITIEN
Originally from Tahiti, Tahitian rock is an acrobatic dance of crossbreeding between rock and Tahitian culture.
She is danced on times of orchestras very appreciated in French Polynesia.
This is the dance most couples dance on Tahiti, in the evenings and at the balls because very appreciated of the Polynesian youth.
BACHATA
Born in the Dominican Republic, Bachata is a popular dance that is a real success around the world.
There are several variants such as, the modern, the sensual, the Dominican.
Dance with the binary rhythm, it is constituted of simple steps but allows to make original figures making it technically accessible to all.
KIZOMBA
KIZOMBA, also called the "African tango".
Originally from Angola, Kizomba is a mixture of Zouk and Semba, ancestor of the Brazilian samba, with strong influences from Zouk.
A complete dance between sensuality, technique and complicity between the partners. Pleasant to watch and to dance, this dance in three times requires a maintenance of the bust in order to give free course to the movements of hips and legs, allying fluidity and elegance.
In just a few classes, you can easily learn the basics of this dance and let yourself be rocked by the languid rhythms of music.
PACHANGA
Pachanga is a kind of music that is described as a mix of MONTUNO SOUND and MERENGUE. Born in Cuba in the 1950s. PACHANGA has played an important role in the evolution of Caribbean style music as we know it today.
This type of dance has a festive and lively style, an emanation of Charanga style music very similar to the sound of Cha-Cha, but with a much stronger down-beat.
Courses for dancers wanting to invest more in the "footwork" aspect of their dance.
SAMBA
Samba is a popular musical genre and dance form from Brazil.
It is binary music with four beats (4/4) or two beats (2/2), based on a syncopated rhythm. Its origin goes back to the years of black slavery. From the original samba rhythm, other musical styles were built: batucada, samba de roda, samba reggae and bossa-nova, which is a kind of slow samba.
Initially practiced by blacks, samba has become a Brazilian "national sport" from the 50s, where it has largely started to export.
MAMBO
Cuban musical genre and dance style derived from rumba and born on the island of Cuba. The mambo originates from a Bantu word meaning "voice in chorus".
The mambo was to be born as a musical genre in its own right, when songs were recorded playing only the final section.
Subsequently, influenced by jazz musicians, will make changes of orchestral order incorporating percussion (maracas, congas, timpani), but mostly brass (trumpet) and saxophone.
It was Francisco "Machito" Grillo and Perez Prado who introduced mambo dance in the night clubs of Mexico City and Havana in 1943, before conquering in 1949 the "Harlem" of New York and its various clubs. The orchestras of Tito Puente and José Curbelo will be "part".
Today, the mambo that we hear is the result of many refinements that took place in North America and to which we owe the introduction of instruments from jazz.
CHACHA
The cha cha looks a little like the rumba in its basic step, besides the rhythmic of the music comes from it. However, the introduction of the three successive "cha" fast gives a dynamic all other dance.
The cha-cha is dancing 4/4 musical rhythm. A basic step of fact on 8 times, corresponding to 10 movements. We can count starting from a:
1, 2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and
But, since the "1" is the beginning of a series of slower times, we prefer to start on the "2" and therefore count:
2, 3, 4 and 1, 2, 3, 4 and 1
We also pronounce:
2, 3, cha cha cha, 2, 3, cha cha cha