Candombe

Originally, the candombe is a folk dance movement form the Afro - Latin Americans in Montevideo and Buenos Aires.

The Candombe in Uruguay was taken in September 2009 on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity by UNESCO and is therefore one of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. In Montevideo still resound on every Saturday afternoon the drums of candombe. Then pull groups of Afro - Latin Americans with a drummer through the streets and houses and collect donations. The candombe can also be a colorful dance theater show of Afro- Latin Americans in Montevideo but. The clock is set by three drums: piano, chico and repique. When Candombe dancers represent various traditional figures represent, for example, the medicine man ( gramillero ), the old mother ( mama vieja ) and the broom oscillator ( escobero ).

In Tango Candombe is in a sense the ancestor of today's dance ( Milonga, Tango and Vals ), which was particularly danced by the Afro - Latin Americans in the suburbs, the " Arrabales ". As the milonga is the Candombe listed in 2/4-cycle, but differs from it in that drums are used as rhythm instruments. Because of the clock used Candombe is also often referred to as "Milonga Candombe ."