{"id":39271,"date":"2021-11-15T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-15T12:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/?p=39271"},"modified":"2021-11-23T10:53:33","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T09:53:33","slug":"types-of-latin-american-dances","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/types-of-latin-american-dances\/","title":{"rendered":"Types of Latin American Dances"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"aioseo-breadcrumbs\"><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\" title=\"Home\">Home<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\"<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/category\/curiosity\/\" title=\"Curiosity\">Curiosity<\/a>\n\t\t<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb-separator\">\"<\/span><span class=\"aioseo-breadcrumb\">\n\t\t\tTypes of Latin American Dances\n\t\t<\/span><\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Types of Latin American Dances<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Non-professional people tend to confuse Latin American dances with Caribbean ones, which instead belong to a category on their own. Today we are going to explain which are the official dances, recognized in international competitions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Officially, <strong>we have five different types of Latin American dances<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Samba<\/strong>, which has its origins in Brazil, from a music mainly used in religion;<\/li><li><strong>Cha-Cha-Cha<\/strong>, a dance that comes from Cuba;<\/li><li><strong>Rumba<\/strong>, coming from the island of Cuba too, with a several variants;<\/li><li><strong>Paso Doble<\/strong>,born in Spain, miming the moves of the bullfighter during bullfighting;<\/li><li><strong>Jive<\/strong>, popular in North America around the 30s. It was initially danced only by African Americans who lived in those areas.&nbsp;<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>All dances are couple dances and are necessary <strong>to be in tune with your partner <\/strong>in order to reach a level that makes the movements fluid and beautiful to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Are you looking for dance shoes?<\/p><cite>Visit our shop!<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/shop\/\" style=\"background-color:#e5625e\">Go to the shop<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Latin American or Caribbean dances?<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Caribbean dances are the most popular in dance schools and, for this reason, they are wrongly confused with the Latin American ones. We have <strong>three types of dances: Bachata, Salsa, Merengue<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Competitiveness in Latin American dances<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Latin dances are <strong>officially recognized in competitive dance<\/strong>. In Italy, the only federation recognized by CONI is the<span style=\"color:#e5625e\" class=\"has-inline-color\"> <a href=\"\/en?p=38624\">FIDS<\/a><\/span>, which provides different competitions and performances by category, age and preparation of each couple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Romy Dance has a large selection of dance shoes for Latin American dancers. We present our collections during FIDS and WDSF competitions and <strong>we collaborate with professional dancers and schools of international level<\/strong>. With us you\u2019ll find the comfort and quality of Made in Italy and a 24\/72 hours delivery!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote has-text-align-center is-style-large is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Are you looking for dance shoes?<\/p><cite>Visit our shop!<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/shop\/\" style=\"background-color:#e5625e\">Go to the shop<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:80px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Types of Latin American Dances Non-professional people tend to confuse Latin American dances with Caribbean ones, which instead belong to a category on their own. Today we are going to explain which are the official dances, recognized in international competitions.&nbsp; Officially, we have five different types of Latin American dances: Samba, which has its origins [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":39274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[530],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curiosity"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39271"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39439,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39271\/revisions\/39439"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romydance.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}