Samba (ballroom dance)

The Samba or ( in Austria only male or without the article, Portuguese o samba ) is a pairwise danced social and competitive dance in 2/4-cycle.

History

Originally Samba was a collective name for many dance forms that were introduced by African slaves from the Congo, the western Sudan and Angola in their new homeland Brazil in the 19th century. The rhythm of the tumbled batuques the origin is the samba music, the samba de roda, a circle dance (Portuguese roda, dt round, circle), is considered as the origin of today's Brazilian samba.

1910 came the maxixe, a tango argentino related close couple dancing, from Brazil to Europe, but could not prevail there. Under the name " Samba" the maxixe appeared in 1924 and 1925 in tournament programs back on, again without major breakthrough.

This succeeded after the Second World War as the Samba of the repertoire of many dance bands belonged. During the early years of the economic miracle 1948/49, the Samba reached in a very simplified form of wide popularity, for example, by titles such as On Sugarloaf at Sugarloaf, there goes the Senoritas well.

As a result, the schools took dance samba with success in their programs, 1959, he was also included in the tournament program of Latin American dances.

Characteristics and technology

The originated in the Afro-Brazilian music and dance style music heard in its European variant of the five Latin American dances and has little in common with the original Brazilian dance form. Typical of the Samba are significant, rapid hip movements and bounces are called forward and back of the lower body. Since Samba is not a stationary dance, creates a flowing movement across the floor.

Rhythm and music

Samba is danced in tournaments at a rate 44-53 beats per minute. There are different rhythms in Samba. Once Fußrhythmus distinction is made between body and. The body rhythm is represented by a forward-backward movement of the pelvis, are set to " Slow". Depending on the kind of danced figure creates a different rhythm of the feet. The basic rhythm of the figures more stationary is denoted by the English counting measure one -a -two. Here is a 2/4-cycle of three steps, the first step takes 3/4 of a shock a, the second quarter and the third step a whole beat. This basic rhythm is often varied, for example spilled figures in the rhythm of "slow -quick -quick " or "quick - quick-slow " are counted. In some figures thereof is a "slow" dissolved, so that a rhythm is "slow -quick - quick-quick - quick-quick -quick " results. If you want to get closer to the Brazilian origins of the dance, as more than a front to back motion of the hip can be danced at a stroke; possible are three hip movements per cycle. These are the Batucadas, which is also a term for a style of samba. If a "Quick" danced in a figure, no longer bouncing otherwise.

Disco Samba

The Disco Samba is a simple two-step form of samba, in which the support - space (steps 2 and 3) is replaced by a simple tap, so a pre- closing of the foot without weight. It requires no hip and Bouncebewegung.

The result of the simple step pattern easy to learn Disco Samba has prevailed over the past 10 years and was included in the World Dance Program in 2012. As content of the dance lessons for beginners convey him especially those ADTV dance schools that teach the world dance program in their first course levels.

Disco Samba can be viewed as a precursor for more advanced 3- step version. Some dance schools keep this 2 -step variant but with as independent dance.