Social Dance Chapter 3

Dance used a way of socializing and celebrating to draw communities

together.

Couples and Courtship Dancing

• Dances created for the use of two people

The Quadrille developed by English aristocrats in 1815 from elite Parisian ballrooms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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”

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 finallly bachata earned its respenct in the domincan repub

Samba

• Originated in Brazil• Frowned upon by government• West African roots in African Religious

Tradition• Started in the early 1900’s

Salsa