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DANZON
The Danzon is a Cuban dance that starts slowly and gradually accelerates at certain melodic intervals between chorus and verse. The dancers stop to talk but remain on the floor until a certain beat tells them to resume their dances. This dance, which might be called a Rumba variation, is in a 4/4 time. Its stately music is popular in the tropics because it is not strenuous. It is know as the aristocrat of all Cuban dancing because of its dignified and stately appearance.

DIRTY DANCING
A general style of very intimate closed position partner dancing popularized in the late 1980s by actor/dancer Patrick Swayze in the movie "Dirty Dancing." It is danced to popular fast or slow music and characterized by sensuous and seductive movements by both man and woman.

DOMINICAN MERENGUE
The Dominican Republic Merengue is danced in 2/4 time with syncopation of the first beat interpreted by the dancers as a slight limp. It became popular in 1957.

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