rumba dance

Rumba is both a family of music rhythms and a dance style that originated in Africa and traveled via the slave trade to Cuba and the New World.

Origins of Rumba Dance

Rumba is always referred to as a "woman's dance" because it absolutely presents the women's body shape, arms, foot and leg lines beautifully. The man should look interesting enough, though, for the lady to try to impress him. These interactions, demonstration of emotions and the mutual dependency of soft rhythms and quick movements, the change of movements together, even a cuddenly way and then - suddenly - away from the partner, make another appropriate name: "Love Dance". Or because the priority of movements is with the lady, the "Dance of seduction".

Every rise and fall of the feet is to be avoided. Considering the character of the dance it does not make sense. Even though we spoke of emotions: Without the proper hip movements the supposedly advanced dancer may seam odd on the floor. "Slotted" dance however does not mean, that your movements are meant to be small. In does mean that the size of a step corresponds with the hip movement which precedes and supports it. A full description of one step might be: If you want do a back basic step, you firstly have to "settle" the hip, allowing the right part of it to lower. Secondly you rotate the left part oft the hip to the right, left hip movement ending slightly back, hip is now in a diagonal position. Now this diagonal position is turned a quarter turn to right while the right leg is led backward showing a nice knee. And then the weight is transfered backward.