Social Dance Chapter 3

1. Social Dance Chapter 3 Dance used a way of socializing and celebrating to draw communities together.

2. Couples and Courtship Dancing • Dances created for the use of two people The Quadrille developed by English aristocrats in 1815 from elite Parisian ballrooms.

3. Couples Dance • Europe couples dance evolved during the late 11th century. European society did not use the concept of arranged marriages so the need for activites to find a mate were implemented into society. • Eventually these dances fused with folk dance traditions of other countries to create dances such as the waltz, bachate,merengue, samba salsa and swing.

4. The Waltz • Originated in the 1830’s in the Austro-Hungarian Empire. These dances were then apopted by European culture and ultimately America and Mexico. • It is a dance done in ¾ time and the couples are connected and move in a whirling fashion.

5. Swing Dance and The Lindy Hop • Cultivated in the early 1900’s in New York at the Savoy Ballroom ion Harlem, 1926 • It evolved into the Jitterbug and transformed into West Coast Swing.

6. Cha Cha • Emerged in Cuba in 1886 • West African, Spanish and local islanders mixed genres to create the dance • Named after the scuff of the sound the heels make when doing the step.

7. Merengue • Merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic beginning in the middle 1880’s. • And also to some extent, of Haiti, the neighbor sharing the island. • During the reign of the dictator Trujillo, an opressive dictator, the merengue was named the national dance to the common peoples surprise.

8. Bachata • Originated around the early 1900’s in the Dominican Republic • Has a combination of Latin, Carribean and African elements in the style. • Is a dance of the common peoples and in fact in Dominican culture the name denotes “loose morals” “low class”

9. The Differences Between Merengue and Bachata • Merengue was approved by the governement and was reveared by the rich and elite. • Bachata is of the common, peasant, person and is looked down upon by governement and the elite groups of that society. • In the 1990’s finalllybachata earned its respenct in the domincanrepub

10. Samba • Originated in Brazil • Frowned upon by government • West African roots in African Religious Tradition • Started in the early 1900’s

11. Salsa