Samba. Music for ballroom dancing.

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Bright, incendiary Brazilian samba will capture your energy. Learning the steps and the chords is half the battle. Springy easy steps and hip work are certainly important. But for samba to stay in everyone's head, you need to save the sparkle in yourself and at the right time pour it into the dance.

Music for ballroom dancing samba

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Samba is the national Brazilian dance associated primarily with the carnival celebrations in Rio de Janeiro. The dancer is required to be flexible in the body, the movements must be supple and energetic, especially the movements of the hips. It is a fast, dynamic dance. In tournaments, it is between the chahaha and the rumba, where it appears as a contrasting dance that perfectly separates the other two.

The songs of African slaves served as a model for the samba dance. The etymology of the word "samba" is used in conjunction with the word "semba," which for them is the term for a dance characterized by unusual dynamics, sharp body movements, accompanied by kicking to the beat and presenting solo performances in a dance group. There is also a theory that the name of this dance came from the special gesture of the soloist inviting into the dance, or originally meant the hip movement characteristic of this dance.

There is a division into urban and rural samba. The prototypes of the rural samba were the lundu, the maxix and the coconut batuque. Urban is closer to what we associate with samba today - it was not danced in groups, but in pairs, although Brazilian maxix and African lundu were used. What is characteristic of samba in both cases is its sensuality.

Samba needed serious modifications to introduce it into dance studios. In Europe samba is danced rather uniformly - only a trip to Brazil allows one to realize its colorfulness and diversity.

There is a division of samba according to the tempo of its performance:

baiatlide is a samba performed to slow music, the tempo of which does not exceed thirty beats per minute on average;
The choro samba is performed to pieces at a moderate tempo of about forty-two strokes per minute;
samba de morro is the fastest and most typical version of samba, the speed of this dance is about fifty-four beats per minute.

Currently, fifty-four to fifty-six beats per minute are used as a fixed measure of the samba tempo used in tournaments. The following instruments are used when playing samba:

ganza - a tin cylinder filled with coffee beans;
A bermimbau is a wooden bow with a wire string, which is pierced with a coin and struck with a bamboo stick. In addition, the drummer rhythmically shakes a basket of beans between his fingers;
The kuyka is a barrel, closed on one side with leather, to which a bamboo stick is attached inside.