Sunday, January 9, 2011

Latin Americas Dance style is continuosly evolving. Salsa dancing witch is the most popular dance was orginated and embraced by the Latin America Culture in the middle 1900's. The marachi band usually make beats and rhythms during the dance. Some latin america dances were later found in ballroom styles such as the cha- cha. But, Miami has been one of the largest contributers to the latin dance culture because of its huge Puerto Rican and Cuban population. Latin America dancing is very energetic and are usually performed in partners. The dancing also emphasizes on hip movements and connection between parters. But, many other example and forms of dancing would be the Mambo, Rumba, Samba, Flamenco, and the Tango. Each dance usually having specific music, counts, rhythms, and style.

Latin America is a very diverse area of land that holds various cuisines that vary from nation to nation. Some of the most typical dishes are tortillas, tamales, pupusas, and various salsas and condiments like guacamole, pico de gallo, and mole. The spices used usually giving the cuisine a distict flavor (each country tends to use different types of spices and a different quatities making a variation across the land). They also have very distict beverages and even some can date back to native americans. Just like any other country though, Latin American food has been influence by Native American, Afican, European, and Asian.

4 comments:

  1. I agree with this, the dancing in Latin America is very unique to that region, and is constantly changing.

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  2. I agree about the food it is very diverse wherever it is. I'm not so sure about the dancing thigh because I don't dance.

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  3. Yeah thats true, there dancing is very diverse. All the countries put there own unquie touches on it

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