Word: rumba
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Competition consists of ten types of dance in two categories. The first is Standard, which includes the waltz, tango, Viennese waltz, foxtrot and quickstep. The second kind, which NBC has given most of its recent ballroom airtime to, is Latin. Among the Latin dances are the cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, and jive...
...steps the competitors use vary according to the syllabi for their individual level of difficulty. Steps within international latin rumba, for example, range from the simple shoulder-to-shoulder maneuver on the bronze level to syncopated Cuban breaks on the gold...
...jazz. His music incorporates lyrics in both Spanish and English. This exotic new hybrid of music captures festive rhythms and tempos similar to Brazilian samba in familiar beats that can be danced to. Martin also demonstrates an uncanny versatility when he sings slower-tempo Latin ballads in the "danceable" rumba and bolero rhythms. GUILLERMO SAMUEL YOUNG San Jose, Calif...
...ESPN2 level of fame: he was a member of the teen group Menudo, he once co-starred in Les Miserables on Broadway, has appeared on the ABC soap General Hospital. The cultural wave Martin is riding--Latin pop--we must admit, is also not an entirely new phenomenon. Salsa, rumba, mambo and other Latin musical forms have made inroads on American pop music--Celia Cruz, Ruben Blades, Gloria Estefan, Ritchie Valens, Los Lobos, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Machito, Willie Colon, Tito Puente and many, many others have, for decades now, scored hits, excited crowds and pioneered new sounds. TIME's "discovering...
...often do eclectic musicians make it to puritanical New England; however, if ready for some rumbombozo, check out the mixture of African, Cuban and Puerto Rican culture in the rumba and bomba dance and mucic troupe stopping by our chilly city this week-end. World Music presents Grupo Afrocuba de Matanzas and Los Hermanos Cepeda at Sanders Theatre at 7:30 p.m., both just aching to add some spice and salsa to the clam chowder state we call home. Call...