Word: danzon
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...Danzon, a dance group from Boston University, thrilled the audience with fleet-footed Zapateado dance from Veracruz and an Aztec dance featuring dramatic peacock-feather headdresses that reached several feet into...
...CHUCHO VALDES Bele Bele en La Habana (Blue Note) A native of Cuba, this fleet-fingered performer is one of the world's finest pianists. Mixing jazz with traditional Afro-Cuban musical forms such as son, danzon and mambo, he creates ferociously cerebral songs that break boundaries, cross oceans and are too spirited for any embargo to contain...
Mirta Ibarra as Diego's neighbor Nancy, a feisty and sensual woman "of a certain age" with whom David has an affair, turns in the film's other great performance. Ibarra, whose character is reminiscent of Maria Rojo in "Danzon," is at once funny, carnal and moving...
Leonard Bernstein explains "What Is a Mode?" as he conducts the season's premiere concert. A mode is a scale, and for illustration the orchestra will play Debussy's Fetes, the Polonaise from Mussorgsky's Boris Godunov, and the Danzon from Bernstein's ballet Fancy Free...
...went into Cuba's interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and twistings too lewd for fastidious eyes. A modified version of the rumba, the danzon, is the craze in Havana, a potential craze in the U. S. It has easy, lazy steps and, in its authentic form, an interim of a minute or so when the tempo changes and dancers stop for conversation or for the lady to sway...