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Summary: The history of Latin dance is the history of the Latin people, as the dances were developed to express care, love, creativity and feelings. Understand how Latin dances came to be, each having their own personality, with information from a professional ballroom dance instructor in this free video on dance.
Rosario Nene Ortega is a ballroom dance instructor at The Goddess Store in Hollywood, Florida. She is a professional instructor and performer of Argentine tango, disco, swing, ballroom...read more
"Hello, my name is Rosario Nene Ortega. I am a dance instructor at the Goddess Store in Hollywood, Florida. In this clip I'm going to tell you a little bit about the Latin dance, the history of the dances. You know that human beings, life, it's about moving and being creative. Music started from the human beings at the very early early stages of life and in the Latin dance we express care. We express love. We express creativity. Latin dances are very natural to Latin people. We have the bolero where you're together and you dance. We have also the merengue where you kind of court your partner and your partner courts you okay. And we also have the Salsa where it's more fun and you interpret like a dialog, okay, not to forget the wonderful tango where people express their passion, their love, their intensity. So there are many Latin dances that belong to the culture. Each culture has it's dances and it's expression of life and creativity and feelings. For you, Nene Ortega in Hollywood, Florida."
eHow Article: History of Latin Dance