Music and dances to use in the DanceTherapy .

Music and dances to use in the DanceTherapy .

THE SAUCE.We can define the sauce as the result of a series of social conditions and evolution of mainly Cuban music and other Caribbean areas in New York.After the Cuban Revolution and the emigration of many Cuban musicians to the United States, there was a separation between the two countries. The phenomenon of salsa has its peak in the late 60s, developing the concerns of the Latino people living in 'El Barrio', where most of the migrants from the Caribbean areas stood. Salsa is not a rhythm or style, is a term used to represent the music of Afro-Cuban origin in the United States and Puerto Rico.You can see the development of several musical specific sounds that emerged during these three decades. Generally speaking, you can divide them in: Sauce east coast of the United States (including New York, Puerto Rico and other Caribbean countries), the Post-revolutionary Cuban music (which includes dance music, jazz and new trova), and Latin jazz and Latin fusion, including Latin rock. Today, what we now understand as salsa has become Latin pop and other musical derivations.Therefore, the Latin and Afro-Cuban salsa takes elements, and develops a force greater than the Cuban son, thus increasing the richness of the rhythms of Cuba, which makes this extremely danceable rhythm.

THE MERINGUE.We can find the beginnings of this dance on the small island of Santo Domingo. Within the environment of Afro-Caribbean dance music, the Dominican merengue style has played a very important role.But as dance, the merengue is much easier than similar Cubans, consisting basically of a two-step dance. Like most folk genre, merengue varied regionally. Still, we can say that developed a standard style around the 20s known as the typical merengue of the Cibao region.Instrumentation consisted of a calabash, the drums, marimba and accordion of German origin. Over the years 30, merengue was recognized as a national symbol and musical style, and through modernization, has become very popular.El dance merengue biggest boom was in the 80s, getting maximum popularity in his homeland home, dominating the musical TV shows and more than 200 radio stations.A genre of merengue also evolved during this period called pambiche and like most of the changes, affecting more percussion section to the other instruments set. Although many consider the merengue as a genre different from the sauce, it is important to say that salsa is not a rhythm, and many salsa bands often incorporate the meringues to their repertoires.

THE RUMBA.The rumba is a genre that originated in Cuba but is based on African styles. It consists of eight bars played in 2/4 time, unchanged and often danced with exaggerated movements.The original meaning of rumba refers to community party, usually outdoors, where the locals gather. As with other musical genres derived from Africa, participants play instruments like drums or maracas and other instruments of percussion. These are often accompanied by clapping, singing and dancing. Initially, the term "rhumba" was used to refer to different styles or genres that have been imported from Cuba by the end of 1920. These styles and genres included the opening speech, song, and the bolero.Recently, people have learned to distinguish the rumba similar styles. The rumba can be classified in three distinct styles: guaguancó, Columbia and yambú. Guaguancó is the best known and most popular style in Havana than in the countryside. The lyrics are usually in Spanish instead of using African terms and expressions. The Columbia and Yambú are more vivid style.Generally, the instruments used for these styles consists of conga and sticks. Guaguancó style consists of three different sections: the target, a main section and choir. The first section, the section of the target; are melodic phrases where the lead vocalist improvises with expressions like "la la la", with no particular meaning. In the main section, the vocalist sings the theme song, which is usually a newspaper or daily occurrence. The song should be formed in the form of prose, two-line stanzas, called paradeos, or ten-line stanzas, called tenths. The final section - the choir, rumba participants will join the lead vocalist in a call response singing a chorus with a pattern already established while he improvises. It is this style of rumba, which has influenced the development of salsa genre we know today. Other facts complicate the differentiation of gender, have been the various processes in the musical structure, in the rumba and other genres such as son, guaracha and others.

CUMBIA.African dance, which has its roots in the traditional dance of Equatorial Guinea, popular in Panama, Venezuela, Peru and especially Colombia. It is usually accompanied with instruments like the rebec (rustic violin), the drums and other native. Originally, the form of this dance is a ritual imitation of several loose couples who carry candles or torches lit as offerings to their peers.

Conga.Cuban popular dance of African origin that has a syncopated rhythm and accompanied by drums. It serves music for the carnival parades. It has its origins in the celebrations that were black slaves. In his instrumental drums of various types, drums, bells, pans and other metal objects involved. "The dance is reduced to march to the beat of rhythmic pattern, in which alternately in every pair beats, syncopation highlight the dancers slightly raising one leg and marking the beat with a sudden movement of the body stands out."Then, little by little, was dancing more freely. The biggest conga in on record was the Miami Super Conga, which took place on March 13, 1988. The line consisted of 119 986 people.

THE CASINO RUEDA.The Cuban Rueda de Casino and Rueda is a dance style to the son montuno or guaracha and then for the trade name to be put to all Cuban music under one name, salsa. Casino wheel was born in Cuba in the 50s, around the year 1956. His name is because emerged and first danced at Club Casino Deportivo in this country.The wheel is formed by pairs of dancers performing any number dancing figures combined between them. When the wheel was born in the 50s they not dance salsa but they are, they are almost always montuno, guaracha and cha-cha, etc. This creatively arose this way of dancing that later applies fully Salsa dancing. Because the wheel up several pairs it is necessary to name figures dance in order to make them understood by all members.The names of the figures mentioned below may vary between countries or even between cities. However, at those sites the most famous steps are divided into three main levels: basic, intermediate and advanced levels. However, in some schools in the Rueda de Casino there is a fourth level called Level Master, which is very complicated shapes with twists.

DISC.The disco music is a genre of dance music derived from R & B (rhythm and blues) which mixed elements from previous genres, such as funk and soul, with Latin touches in many cases, and that became popular in dance halls (clubs ) in the late 70's pop music he dominated the musical scene until the beginning of the 80s.The disco songs were usually structured on a repetitive 4/4, marked by a figure of charles, eight or sixteen times, with open hi hat in his free time, and a predominant syncopated bass line, with heavily reverberated vocals. They are easily recognizable by its repetitive rhythms (usually between 110 and 136 bpm per minute) and catchy, often inspired by Latin rhythms like merengue, rumba or samba.The orchestral sound usually known as disco sound was based on the presence of string sections (violins, cellos) and metals, which developed linear phrases in unison, following the instrumental base formed by the electric piano and electric guitar (with hints clearly taken funk). Unlike in rock, lead guitar is unusual.The result was a kind of wall of sound, bright, with orchestral groups taking the solo parts and a harmonic background, based on a well-defined chord progression (retail / seventh / low), dominated by the major seventh chord with . They used the grotesque sounds of pure harmony. In this music sometimes used to add bass, cymbals and saxophones, but only if he was going to act in rooms that were not clubs. While the popularity of disco music declined in the early 80s, he had a major influence on the development of electronic dance music of the 80s and 90s, as well as genres like House or Techno.

Zamba.It is a mime dance develops the theme of the siege and loving beau requirement and rhythmically gloss resources coquetry of women, which avoids a categorical answer to the end.Zamba is native to Peru, direct daughter of the Spanish Fandango, where he was favorite dance of Indian and black races (baboons) and is one of their names to the fact that the songs that were sung were addressed to the sambas.He scattered Peru, Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador, arrived in Argentina in two ways, from Chile to the halls of Mendoza and Lima to Jujuy, Salta and Tucuman, between 1825 to 1830. It has been known by different names from the original, Zamacueca to Zambacueca, Zamba broody, Chile Fishermen, all of a common regional appellations choreographic musical form with slight variations captured the atmosphere. Born in Lima in 1824, according to Carlos Vega, under the name Zamacueca as its own form of amorous pantomime Fandango, to take the handkerchief acriollarse I happened to be expressive attachment of foreplay of their evolution.Because the fiery variant later returned to Chile, name changes and the Chilean call to war between the two countries, when Sailor christened in honor of the Peruvian Navy. Cueca in Chile is said abbreviating the original name, and in Argentina spread to the original, surviving in our century, almost exclusively, the first part thereof, Zamba in Santiago del Estero. Cave, in the Andean provinces, especially Cuyo, radiating its use to Tucuman. Chilean in the northwest in general.The regions where it is most intense was his practice are the northern and western provinces, particularly Santiago del Estero. It is also danced in the province of Buenos Aires and part of the coast, but in the north where it has been preserved with more vigor, one of the dances that lasts more vitality in the popular practice.Initial position: firm, faced, giving the gentleman his left to the public. You dance with handkerchief. The dancers hold a handkerchief with his fall right hand side; The man has his left hand too low, while the lady supports his on his waist or taken with her skirt. The gentleman holding the handkerchief at one end, the lady in the middle.

  BELLY DANCE.Oriental dance is one of the oldest dances in the world, combining elements from different countries of the Middle East and North Africa, although its precise origins are uncertain. In Arab countries this dance is called Raks Sharki Bellydance literally. Belly name began to be used in the nineteenth century by Europeans who traveled to exotic countries in search of new cultures, customs and landscapes. These travelers coined the term surprised by the belly and hip movements that did not exist in European dances.

We have to distinguish between the Raks Sharki (Oriental Dance) and Raks Baladi (Dance Village). Raks is a trivial elementary dance with virtually no displacement and hip dominant movements. The Raks Sharki is more refined and rich. It includes movements of Egyptian folklore, classical ballet and contemporary dance, with large displacements, turns and moves to all parts of the body, although the hip are also the most important. In some ancient peoples it thought that human fertility was directly related to the land. The women, who were the ones that created new lives, they are attributed magical powers. For example: In the Central and Mediterranean Anatolya (Turkey), thousands of years ago, women were ritual dances in honor of these magical powers (ceremonies related to fertility). Men were excluded from these rites.

In ancient Greece and Rome different dances of fertility based on the rotation of the hips and belly they were made. Some of them were held in honor of the goddesses. Many of these deities came from the East, particularly Syria and Turkey. In Cyprus, birthplace of Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and fertility, women performed erotic ritual dances accompanied by songs and percussion by which became entranced. This allowed them to come into contact with the goddess and it pass their power.Also, these rites or similar took place in Mesopotamia, Phoenicia, Egypt, Arabia and India. In these ceremonies involving large numbers of women. They are danced, he sang and even some women to men is offered in honor of the goddess. The purpose of these ceremonies was to bring the power of the earth goddess of fertility and encourage this. During the fourth century AD Christianity and Islam came to dominate the Middle East. Although they took some holidays and pagan rites and the appropriated adapting to his new religion, it also destroyed the rituals and goddess worship they tried to eliminate female dances related to sexuality and fertility.

THE MAMBO.Dance that originated in Cuba and became one of the most popular Latin American rhythms of the mid-50s were characterized by a syncopated rhythm, blend of Latin American music and jazz. Syncopation is the displacement of rhythmic accent strong to weak time compass time. Their difference is based on having a quiet time in each measure, which corresponds to a pause in the movement of those who practice this dance is usually danced in pairs, so that one leg moves forward or sideways , while the other is maintained in a flexed site, to the beat. Over time, the mambo has developed three different rates: the mambo single, double and triple. The latter gave way to cha-cha-cha that we know today.
THE TANGO.Tango dance originated in Argentina and was introduced and popularized in Latin America and Europe in the early twentieth century. Their dance is characterized by a variety of steps and positions. It is possibly the most elegant dance, and requires some skill to develop it properly.Tango music originally had a 2/4, using the dot in its characteristic rhythm. Both the music and dance of tango have indirect influences of the Cuban habanera. It was a direct antecedent of the milonga, which tango was born in the late nineteenth century, in the port area of ​​the city of Buenos Aires.The first expressions of tango emerge in the late nineteenth century. From the early decades of this century music and dance become popular and acquire the basic canons that remain. Already in 1990 the tango had its world boom, not only in their dance, but also in the birth of new composers. Today the tango is more than a dance, it is a philosophy and a way of life.The tango it is known as music of two by four, that is in the rhythm of two quarters (2/4). But in reality most tangos are in compass four quarters (4/4), and its rate of 33 beats per minute. In this genre of music he was applied the derogatory name "tangó" perhaps because of its confidential and secret. The oldest tango composers and performers known appeared in the first two decades of the twentieth century. The first tango known author is "The Entrerriano" Rosendo Mendizabal, published in 1898.Although, the most famous tango singer was undoubtedly Carlos Gardel, who also had appearances in films in the decade of the 20. Many of the issues that interpreted composed himself, ordering the letters to his inseparable companion Alfredo Le Pera. The 40s was a period full of successes for the genre. The international fame of this dance and the ability to be presented in global shows resulted in more colorful and complicated choreography, with greater demands and develop gymnastic figures.
THE CHA-CHA-CHA.The Cha-Cha-Cha is a rhythm and sound with more than forty years. It was created by the Cuban violinist and conductor Enrique Jorrin in 1948, the result of his experiments with form, the melody and rhythm of danzon.The name Enrique Jorrin originally called his experiments was neo danzon. We can say that is the dance that most recently has been incorporated in the form of Latin dances. Due to the introduction of the mambo, this unique dance was introduced in the ballrooms, gaining popularity recently.This rapid and widespread acceptance is due in large part to the fact that an intermediate floor, not too slow or too fast, making it a genre of dance for all audiences.The name we all know today was born with the help of the dancers. Dancing cha-cha-cha it is characterized by a series of three quick steps taken rebound compass. Thus it was that, by onomatopoeia was given its current name since it was discovered that marked a peculiar sound feet to touch the ground, cha-cha-cha.Chachachá instrumentation originally was retaken the danzon, which in Cuba is played with a musical group called Charanga French. The basic instrumentation is also the rhythm section (usually consisting of percussion, piano and bass) in a string section that outlines a harmonic rhythm.
FLAMENCO.Flamenco music is one of the most characteristic Spanish music of Spain, which normally is associated with the Roma community and Andalusia, although, in truth, is a mix of cultures of Spain as both their dances and their songs have Arabic influences, Berbers, Jews and Roma. Flamenco was born and developed in anonymity, which makes it hard to find valid and objective evidence about its origin.The Andalusian gypsy art should also be understood as a lifestyle. The first performers, made flamenco a resource for their livelihood, and a communication system.In the early sixteenth gypsies they had already picked up the Andalusian folk music, and had begun to mark it with their interpretation. The flamenco song originally had no musical accompaniment. Later he was accompanied by fiddles and mandolins. The guitar was not part of flamenco until the nineteenth century. Basically, the flamenco song is the historical testimony of the gypsies, transmitted orally. His most topics are the people who suffered persecution, imprisonment and freedom love and death, the importance of the mother and hopelessness. Flamenco is a form of dance in which the movements of feet, hands and arms are the most important. It is very precise gestures, but improvisation plays a key role in this art. In addition, flamenco can be danced in groups or alone.Flamenco guitar can be used either alone or to accompany the voice or the dance. The footwork of flamenco is its main distinguishing feature. The plant set of steps and heel is what impresses in dance this dance, especially in men. The dance form in women is based on the movements of the body and hands.
Bachata.The bachata is a Latin rhythm that originated on the island of the Dominican Republic in projecting the string arrangements and percussion. To define this dance, we could say that is a mix between string bolero and Cuban son.Although its beginnings date back to around the 60s, bachata began to have popularity since 2000. The affluent upper classes or define this rate as lower-class music, music primarily to get drunk.In fact, bachata had to go out of their homeland in order to achieve the success that its citizens have failed to recognize, something like what happened to tango in Argentina. Such discrimination went so far not to sell bachata music. Just as, in nightclubs and radio stations, not sounding songs of this rhythm.This whole process was a turning point for the year 1989 when an extraordinary and recognized Dominican musician Juan Luis launches its album "Bachata Rosa", with which he achieved record sales in the country and earned an impressive international impact.The release of this record was essential to enable the bachata became known worldwide, reaching countries like the United States, Germany, Mexico and Spain. Today, the pace of bachata has recognized quality performers like Luis Vargas, Monchy and Alexandra, Alex Well, Frank Reyes and Zacarias Ferreira and composition as Teodoro Reyes, Anthony Santos and Joe Veras, among others. Thanks to them, and many other artists, bachata has reached levels as high as those likely to have the merengue acceptance.
Reggaeton.Reggaeton is a mix of rap in Spanish Puerto Rico, American hip hop and Jamaican reggae. We can say that is a musical exchange between the customs of the Caribbean culture. There is debate about the origin of reggaeton. For some it is original of Puerto Rico while others argue that it is Panama. It's a genre that derives from Reggae, from Jamaica.It is a variant of raggamuffin, which in turn descended from reggae, influenced by hip hop. The particularities of reggaeton are the letters on the local dialects of Spanish and influence other Latin styles such as bomba and salsa. From the 80, in Panama and Puerto Rico, the anger begins with the sensual rhythm with their warm letters. Reggaeton is also considered a form of singing with double meanings. These quarrels did decline reggaeton in the late nineties.Since 2000, this rate of perreo entered its heyday, knowing the style in many countries such as: Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Dominican Republic, United States, Puerto Rico, among others. Well this form of dance brings a new style to dress, dance and even talk. Reggaeton is a style of popular music among young people, easy to dance and provocative.Most characteristic of this rhythm is the bass lines and repetitive rhythm. The lyrics of reggaeton are characterized by relying on rhyme to make the song is catchy and easily identifiable for the public. The subjects of the letters were a source of social criticism, but with the passage of time has been drifting in more commercial bills, especially those that refer to sex.Another feature is the shrill voices, usually distorted by electronic equipment, giving an echo that gives more power to every word. Reggaeton is usually associated with a form of very sensual dance, sometimes called perreo, wide glued bodies. The rhythm of reggaeton is criticized for being simple and repetitive, and the lyrics are criticized for being sexually explicit and denigrate women, making it a sex object.
THE ZUMBA.Zumba is a fitness movement or discipline of Colombian origin, focused on the one hand to maintain a healthy body and the other to develop, strengthen and give flexibility to the body through dance movements combined with a series of aerobic routines. Zumba routines used within its major Latin American rhythms, such as salsa, merengue, cumbia, reggaeton and samba. In each session of Zumba, you can burn 800 calories.The word comes from the Colombian idiom "rumba", word that many Colombians refer to the party. In an unknown process of appropriation of the term, its use became widespread throughout Colombia.Benefits buzzes like aerobic exercise has many benefits, each of them will depend on the routine to perform. For example if you only want to tone Zumba you can be used with items like a chair that allows the Pilates toning muscles develop. Another way to profit by Zumba is Endorphin release by a routine 60 minutes dance mixed intense exercise. Activates the body and awakens, toning through the Zumba dumbbells and develop greater resilience to exercise when you have a discipline in their practice.