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Encyclopedia > Casino Dance

Casino Dance is internationally known as Salsa. The name Casino appeared in the early 1960s in Havana. As a pass time and entertainment for most Cubans, Casino became a predominant rhythm in Havana. It gave birth to Rueda de Casino, which originated in Patricio Lumumba beach club (former Nautico) in Miramar. This form of circular dance was the creation of dancers from Regla and the Guaracheros de Regla. The Trump Taj Mahal in Atlantic City, New Jersey A casino is a building that accommodates gambling. ... Salsa Rueda (Rueda de Casino) was developed in Havana, Cuba in the 1950s, as a particlular type of round dancing of Salsa. ... Miramar, loosely translated from Spanish, means sea-view. As a toponym, Miramar may refer to any of the following geographical locations: Argentina Miramar, Buenos Aires – a city in Buenos Aires province. ... Regla is a town north of Havana bay, right behind Casa Blanca. ... Guaracheros de Regla was the name of a carnival comparsa of Havana, Cuba. ...


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Category:Dance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (191 words)
Dance is also used to describe methods of non-verbal communication between humans or animals (bee dance, mating dance), motion in inanimate objects (the leaves danced in the wind), and certain musical forms or genres.
People who dance are called dancers and the act of dance is known as dancing.
Definitions of what constitutes dance are dependent on social, cultural, aesthetic artistic and moral constraints and range from functional movement (such as Folk dance) to codified, virtuoso techniques such as ballet.
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