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Question by hellomoto222: What is your favorite ballroom and latin american dances?
Argentine Tango
Vienneise Waltz
Waltz
Tango
Foxtrot
Quickstep

Cha Cha Cha
Salsa
Mambo
Paso Doble
Samba
Rumba
Jive

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Answer by Panda
Tango

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Question by The left wing is the right.: Do you think Zumba will improve my ballroom dance skills?
I am a Competitive American Rhythm, and American Smooth dancer. And I am training for a Dance Competition in Phoenix, AZ in September, will Zumba help me? I was told that Zumba helps out with Salsa, Samba, and Merengue! Which is awesome cause my strongest latin dances are Cha Cha, Rumba, Mambo, and Bolero, so I need to focus on weaknesses,

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Answer by JenGen
It will improve your endurance and give your muscles a work out. Theoretically the program has been designed to work all the muscle groups however it is pretty rough and ready – at least the classes I’ve been to.

I don’t think it provided much more than that but then I do tribal fusion bellydance so my needs will be very different to yours. The Zumba version of a “bellydance” was ridiculous but others who have not learnt bellydance really enjoyed it and no doubt it helped them loosen up bits that other dances could not reach.

Give it a try and see how it feels. You don’t have anything to lose and overall it was fun.

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Question by hellomoto222: What is your favorite Ballroom and Latin American Dance?
Argentine Tango
Vienneise Waltz
Waltz
Tango
Foxtrot
Quickstep

Cha Cha Cha
Salsa
Mambo
Paso Doble
Samba
Rumba
Jive

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Answer by flutterby
I absolutely loved dancing the tango in competition in college! I loved the costumes, the music and everything else that went with it. We did this killer old fashioned routine with the rose in the mouth and everything, it totally rocked!
I love the samba. It has to be my favorite latin dance of all time. I like the way it incorporates everything and how it’s so fluid but sharp at the same time. (Paso was a close second though!)

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Question by dat guy: where can i ballroom dance?
KHey so I’m going to be going to depaul and I’m looking to see if anyone knows anywhere close to or in Lincoln park where I can take some ballroom classes like jazz mambo salsa swing the works.. I would prefer free or cheap haha.also any good like clubs to go ballroom dancing would be be nice.

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Answer by karen butera
i dont know of any places near depaul but there are a lot of places here in the dfw metro plex…let us know if you want more info..

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Question by jquinn: What is the difference between the Latin Ballroom Dancing?
What is the difference between Salsa, Mambo, Samba, and Cha-Cha? I’m looking to take dancing lessons at Arthur Murray Dance Studio. I’ve never danced any of these type styles and I’m not sure which one would be to my most benefit. Maybe something that is most likely to be used in a club or at a dance. My boyfriend is from Cancun and he can dance very well, and I want to know how to dance so when we go out somewhere I’ll know what I’m doing hahaha

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Answer by John de Witt
You don’t pick one or two. You’ll either learn the five Latin dances in the International style (cha cha, samba, rumba, paso doble, and jive) or the five Rhythm dances in the American style (eastern swing, mambo, a different rumba, a slightly different cha cha, and bolero), plus some social dances. They reinforce each other, so learning a bunch is actually easier than learning one or two at a time. There isn’t much difference between salsa and mambo; some would say there’s no difference at all. Chances are good that your boyfriend won’t dance any of the dances you learn at AM, but that’s OK. The thing is to learn to dance, and if you learn well what they teach, you’ll be able to dance with your boyfriend anyway. You could take a trained ballroom dancer who’s never seen bachata, for instance, and she’d be dancing it like she’d done it all her life after about thirty seconds.

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Question by Simone: I’m looking for good ballroom dance music. Any suggestions?
I’m looking for some really good latin dance music. Cha-Cha, Samba, Rumba, Paso Doble, and Jive. As well as Merengue, Salsa, and Mambo.

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Answer by quiechankaine
try these sites.

www.danceshopper.com/ballroom-dance-music
ballroomdancemusic.info/
www.ez-tracks.com/Ballroom_Dance.html
www.thedancestoreonline.com/ballroom-latin-dance-music.htm

and there are many more site . these site have latin ballroom dance music in the order of what you are searching for.

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Question by rosa m: Who decided what dances should be considered Latin American in Ballroom dance?
Isn’t it strange that in competitive Latin American Ballroom dance it consists of Rumba, Cha Cha, Samba, Paso and Jive. Jive isnt Latin, it is swing. Also why isn’t Salsa or Mambo or Lambada there as they are Latin? How can a competitive Latin American dancer not do Salsa as one of the dances. It seems strange.

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Answer by W W D
It would be nice if we still had guys like Victor Silvester to answer these things for us, but my understanding is that the categories were already there before some of the dances. Jive got put in that half because it made more sense than putting it in Standard. I dance mostly American style, and we have mambo as one of our major rhythm dances, and salsa is more or less a mambo variant. Likewise, in International style even mambo is considered just a variant (a fast one!) of rumba, and it’s a perfectly respectable social dance, just not one of the big ten.
I’d like to see somebody write a good concise history on the subject myself. Cha cha cha is just over fifty years old, for instance, not as old as ballroom competitions, and it would be nice to know a bit more of how the Carioca done by Fred & Ginger in “Flying Down to Rio” developed into the currently competed samba.
Back to the rumba, if I could, I think competitive dancing can be criticised for being too choreographed, because one essentially never sees basic school figures in rumba at advanced levels, and certainly nothing that looks much like salsa but slower. I’m not holding my breath waiting for that to happen, though.

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Question by hammy: do you think ballroom dancing is gay?
I really like ballroom dancing, especially the tango, mambo, and the salsa. I want to learn how those dances. What do you think of ballroom dancing? Do you think it is gay? i have had a passion for ballroom dancing since i was 15, now im 19 and i really want to learn how to ballroom dance, when im done with school i want to open a tango/mambo/salsa dancing club

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Answer by Ameah C
no… its alot harder than most people think…

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Question by J K: Does ballroom dancing incorporate cha cha, salsa, mambo, and latin?
If you were to go into ballroom dancing would you have an oppurtunity to learn all of these? I think cha cha etc. are in latin ballroom but what are the categories?

Are any of you ballroom dancers?

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Answer by terps007
im not a ballroom dancer but ive seen it before and yes it does include the salsa etc…

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