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Rumba is a dance organically related to the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The Caribbean island of Cuba has developed a wide range of creolized musical styles based on its cultural origins in Europe and Africa Throughout the history one may trace several styles of dances called "rumba".
Some dancers considered rumba the most erotic and sensual Latin dance, for its relatively slow rhythm and the hip movement. Rumba is actually the second slowest Latin dance: the spectrum runs bolero, rumba, cha-cha-cha, mambo in order of the speed of the beat. Bolero is a name given to more than one type of Latin-American music and its associated dance and song The Cha-cha-cha (in Spanish Cha-cha-chá) is a Latin American Dance of Cuban origin Mambo is a Latin dance of Cuban origin that corresponds to Mambo music.
Cuban rumba
Afro-Cuban rumba is entirely different than the ballroom rumba. In Cuban music, Rumba is a generic term covering a variety of musical rhythms and associated dances Ballroom rumba derives its movements and music from son, just as the salsa and mambo. When son was brought to the United States it was renamed rumba. It is thought that this occurred due to the name rumba being more exotic and more marketable than Sòn.
Prohibition in the United States caused a flourishing of the relatively tolerated cabaret American rumba, as American tourists flocked to see crude sainetes (short plays) which featured racial stereotypes and generally, though not always, rumba. Prohibition of alcohol, often referred to simply as prohibition, also known as Noble Experiment, refers to a Sumptuary law which prohibits Alcohol Cabaret is a form of entertainment featuring Comedy, Song, Dance, and Theatre, distinguished mainly by the performance venue &mdash a Restaurant
American rumba is thought to have contributed to the origin of the cha-cha-cha, and indeed most figures (if not all, somehow) can be reinterpreted in cha-cha-cha.
Early American rumba
This kind of rumba was introduced into American dance salons at the beginning of the 20th century, characterized by high tempo, nearly twice as fast as the modern ballroom rumba, typical examples being the tunes The Peanut Vendor and Siboney. The Peanut Vendor (original title El Manisero) is a popular Cuban Song in the style of a street-seller known as a Son pregón
Ballroom rumba
American style rumba is characterized by the Cuban hip motion or hip sway arising from the bending and straightening of the knee, as opposed to Latin hip motion stepping on a straight leg, which is used in international style rumba.
Additionally, the same move in terms of footwork often goes by a different name in American versus international.
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