Samba!!

Samba is a musical genre, from African roots that emerged in Brazil and considered the national pace for excellence. Considered one of the main Brazilian popular culture, samba became a symbol of national identity. Among its unique features is a way where the dance is accompanied by small melodic phrases and slogans to create anonymous, the foundations of samba born in Recôncavo Bahiano and led in the second half of the nineteenth century, the city of Rio de Janeiro by blacks who migrated from Bahia and settled in the then capital of the Empire. The Bahian samba, which in 2005 became a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, was one of the bases for the samba carioca. Although the samba exist across the country - especially in the states of Bahia, Maranhão, Minas Gerais and Sao Paulo - in the form of various rhythms and regional folk dances that originated in the drumming, samba as a genre is a musical expression Urban Rio de Janeiro, where in fact he developed between the late nineteenth and early decades of the twentieth century. In Rio de Janeiro that the dance practiced by slaves in Bahia migrated contacted and incorporated other genres of music played in the city (such as the polka, the dance, lundu the Quixote, etc.), acquiring a totally unique and creating urban carioca samba and carnival.

Belly Dance

The belly dance is a dance originally committed in various parts of the Middle East and South Asia. Of primitive origin, dated between 7000 and 5000 BC, its allied movements to music and sinuous like a snake, were recorded in ancient Egypt, Babylon, Mesopotamia, India, Persia and Greece, and were intended to prepare women through religious rites dedicated to the goddesses, to become mothers. Due to the Arab invasion, the dance spread around the world. The term belly dance originated in France in 1893. In the East is known by the Arabic name raqs sharqi (رقص شرقي literally "oriental dance") or raqs baladi (رقص بلدي literally "dance of the country," and, by extension, "folk dance"), or the term Turkish çiftetelli (or τσιφτετέλι in Greek).

It consists of a series of movements vibration, impact, ripples and turns involving the body as a whole. Currently won sensual exotic aspects, being excluded from some Arab countries of conservative attitude.

Kizomba

Kizomba is a musical sort and of originary dance of Angola. One is about a fusing of semba with zouk. In Portugal the word “kizomba” is used for any type of music derived from zouk, exactly that it is not of Angolan origin.

Musical structure:

The Kizombas normally is marked by a strong stroke given by serious drum as the Deaf person (drum), folloied for a melody given for a chimbal. In the introduction and during the Bridge (music), the strong stroke is many times omitted, being only the melody given for the chimbal and the other instruments of the battery (musical instrument).

Cha-Cha-Chá

Chachachá is a Latin American style of dance derived from rumba, mambo and danzon Cuban. It corresponds to the musical style of same name, introduced for the composer and Cuban violinist Enrique Jorrín.

In the hall dance popularly it is called by Cha-Cha.

Inhaled in the sound of the feet of the dancers when dragging them for the soil, this style finished becoming independent, with proper characteristics of music and dances.

It was become popular in the world with the formations of the Big Bands, where it clearly had predominance of blow instruments.

Chachachá was born originally in Havana in years 40.

Hip Hop

Hip hop is a cultural movement initiate in the end of the decade of 1970 in the United States as form of reaction to the social conflicts and the violence suffered for the favored classrooms less of the urban society.

It is a species of culture of the streets, a movement of space claim and voice of the peripheries, translated in the aggressive letters, the strong and intense rhythm and the images grafithes for the walls of the cities.

Hip hop as cultural movement is composed for four main artistic manifestations: MCing, that livens up the party with its rhymes improvised, the instrumentation of the DJs, the dance of breakdance and the painting of the graphite.

Having started in Bronx, the culture hip hop emerged quickly for the world all.

Music hip hop does not have to be confused with rap (rhythm and poetry), therefore this has divergent structure of music hip hop in some points, although to have points in common. They exist rappers that they do not touch hip hop, as Eminem and MC's, as well as exist musicians of hip hop that they do not make rap.

The awarding of American MTV, the Video Music Awards, for example, counts on two distinct categories: one for better clip of rap and another one for better clip of hip hop.

Tango...

I'll start by talking about the dance like that anymore and is more attractive, Tango ... Tango is a style of music and dance together. Has binary musical form and rhythm of two by four. The choreography is complex and the skills of the dancers are celebrated by aficionados. According Discépolo, "the tango is a sad thought you can dance". Its origin is in the area of the River Plate in South America, in the city of Buenos Aires and Montevidéu.

Source Music:

The music of the tango has a clear origin. According to studies that have numerous documents, tango and habanera descend from the played in the brothels of Buenos Aires and Montevideo, the last two decades of the nineteenth century, with violin, flute and guitar (guitar). The writer and polemicist Jorge Luis Borges said that by its characteristics tango could only have been born in Montevideo and Buenos Aires. The bandoneon, which currently characterizes the tango, arrived in the region of the River Plate by the year 1900, the suitcases of German immigrants. There are many scores of the day, as the tango musicians could not write the music and probably interpreted on the basis of existing melodies, both habaneras as polkas.

Tango Styles:

There are different tendencies in his style. The Tango-song, Tango-canyengue, Tango-milonga, Tango-romanzae and Tango-jazz. Nowadays it is possible to find styles like Tango-rock and eletrotango or electronic tango. The eletrotango can be given in the work of groups Bajofondo Tango Club Gotan Project.

The history of Dance

The history of dance represents a change of meaning of artistic purposes over time. In Classical Ballet, the narratives and environments is illusory that guided the scene. With the social changes of modern times, began to question certain virtuosity present in the ballet and began to appear different movements of modern dance. It is important to note that at that time, the social infer much in artistic achievement, making then the American Modern Dance to eventually become quite different from European modern dance, even with some elements in common. Contemporary dance has emerged as a new art form, both suffering influences of all past movements, and new technological possibilities (video, installation). That was also very influenced by new social conditions - increasing individualism, urbanization, and spread amounts of media, giving rise to new proposals for art, it also led to mergers with other artistic areas such as the theater for example.