The maxixe (pronounced ma-shi-sh), occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music, that originated in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in the 1870s at about the same time as the tango was developing in Argentina and Uruguay. Ipanema beach Cristo Redentor A NASA satellite image of Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro (meaning River of January in Portuguese) is the name of both a state and a city in southeastern Brazil. ... Events and Trends Technology The invention of the telephone (1876) by Alexander Graham Bell. ... Tango in the streets of Buenos Aires Tango is a social dance form that originated in Buenos Aires and Montevideo. ...

Like the Tango, the Maxixe travelled to Europe and the United States in the early years of the twentieth century. World map showing location of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ...

The music was influenced by various other forms including the tango, lundu, polka and habanera, and is danced to a rapid 2/4 time. The Lundu, originally a dance done by African slaves in Brazil, also gained popularity among the white middle class and upper crust and became Brazils first national dance. ... Polka is a type of dance and genre of dance music; it originated in the middle of the 19th century in Bohemia, and is still a common genre of Czech folk music; it is also common both in Europe and in the Americas. ... Habanera is an adjective meaning from Havana (also known as La Habana), Cuba. ...

The Maxixe was one of the dances that contributed to the samba and lambada. Samba is the most famous of the various forms of music arising from African roots in Brazil. ... Lambada is also the name of a 1990 movie. ...

See also

• List of dances