Mambo

Two well-known dances associated with Puerto Rico and Cuban culture are Mambo and Salsa. These dances are known for their rhythmic music, intricate timing, and both made it to the United States’ culture. Although the two dances share some similar characteristics, there are prominent differences as well. Mambo was a popular dance found in the Palladium Ballroom in New York City during the 1950s. The dance incorporated African influences such as the use of polyrhythm in the hips and pelvis contrast to the upper body and maintaining aesthetic of the cool. It broke on the second beat in the music, which is a challenging aspect of the dance. Mambo also introduced solo parts known as shines. This allowed the partnership between the dancers to separate and improvise their own movement. Salsa came about when Salsa music became popular. Some traits iconic to Salsa are fast spins and complex turn patterns. There are two different kinds of Salsa music: Salsa Dura and Salsa Romatnica. Salsa Dura represented the people and incorporated sounds that were common in the street of…

watch a performance, but fully understand the elements that go into the movements. The first video takes place in Havana, Cuba in 2008 where professional dancers from Conjunto Folklorico Nacional are performing the traditional Cuban Mambo. The second video shows a Russian folk dance performed in Vigo, Spain by ‘Ansambl’ Tanca Sibirianochka’ from Irkutsk, Russia in 2009. The third video has the Khalsa College Patiala Winners…

video on a dance called the “Mambo”. The video was sort of interesting because it was a type of dance that I wasn’t familiarized with. In the video I could see that the girl was dressed in a very weird way. A man and a woman danced together, so I can assume that the Mambo is a partnered dance. In the video, I really liked what the man and woman were wearing. The woman was showing off her hips and she was wearing shoulder shimmies, so the element of costuming has to be very important to the…

whether it’s negative or positive, will have a huge impact and change the course of their art form. For the Latin community, this impact sometimes came with a invigorating piano introduction, a drum rhythm that hit you and hooked you from the start and kept you through out the song. This was the genius of “mambo king”, Tito Puente. Tito Puente, who’s referred to as the mambo king in Latin music, was a fusion of many styles…

The Mambo dance was originated by a Cuban bandleader, Perez Prado, in Havana, Cuba in the 1930s. It is a very sexy Latin style dance along with passionate and flirtatious hip movement that flows forward and backward. Additionally, Mambo dancers dance in sharp and quick steps, side steps, rock steps, kicks, points and flicks of the feet. There are a variety of Mambo rhythms, and they are all based on the clave rhythm that used in Afro-Cuban music. The rhythms are set by a variety of percussion…

For this assignment I am going to be analyzing the piece “Cherry Pink and Apple Blossom White”. The writer Prado was called “The King of the Mambo” and according to Rolling Stone he was responsible for helping popularize the Cuban- originated genre in America with this particular song. The song itself is very rhythmic and upbeat with a couple of different ideas throughout. The first idea (Idea A) is repeated twice at the beginning of the piece up until :36. Idea B is then repeated twice until…

The Museum of Modern Art of Bogota is one of the most valuable cultural institutions in Bogota, Colombia and Latin America. MAMBO organizes major curatorial programs that look to promote the arts at a national and international level. Our education department is in charge of affecting the lives of over 11.000 students that more and more understand the importance of culture and history. In addition MAMBO hosts several events such as inaugurations, artists talks, guided tours and an exclusive…

else in the world. Today, Cuban music inhabits more than thirty distinct genres, and Cuba has generated five distinct dance styles, as well. Cuban Dance Styles Cuba nightlife brings together the best of music, dance, and celebration. Danzón, mambo, cha-cha-cha, bolero, and salsa are the primary dance styles that either originated in Cuba, or were created elsewhere by Cubans using other forms of Cuban dance as their basis. Danzón is the official music and dance style of the island nation. It has…

Marie Laveau was a renowned Voodoo priestess who lived in the 1700s. She is rumored to have lived longer than any normal human being of the time should have been able to. During the day she was a hairdresser, but when time came to perform Voodoo rituals, she was the most knowledgeable and connected with the Loa, ancestral spirits. The priestess was compassionate about the people in her community often doing charity work such as helping the homeless, hungry, and sick (Singh 1). The only truth in…

Jennider L. Nelson, explains how falling in love can make you sometimes “love sick”. She writes “Once smitten, these “love” chemicals surge and their health effects are set in motion. Some can’t sleep, eat, concentrate, and feel a sensation of nausea and chest pressure” (Nelson). This sense of love sick that is described, can easily be interpreted as obsession between one of the characters over the other. This theme of obsession can be found when Micheline Bernard is bed ridden and the narrator…