Beat: 2/4
Rhythm: 2 beats per bar, and the second beat is a remake.
Speed: 52-54 bar per minute.
Style: cheerful music, lively dance and swaying steps.
There are many kinds of samba dances from banana to Marka local carnival. In Latin America, there is a saying in the popularity of samba dance: people, regardless of gender, age and age, dance at ordinary times and dance more on holidays; Jump on the stage, jump on the street; Dance during the day and dance at night. Whenever exciting music plays, people are always passionate, and they can't help but twist their legs and waist, jump up and get intoxicated.
Samba dance is a kind of collective social dance, with dozens and tens of thousands of participants. This dance is accompanied by percussion music, such as drums and gongs. The steps of this dance are very simple. Your feet move back and forth, your body leans and swings back and forth. Male and female dancers dance in pairs or around the ballroom, or they can dance separately. Male dancers like all kinds of dexterous movements under their feet, and their feet move or rotate quickly. Female dancers mainly shake their upper body and twist their abdomen and buttocks.
In order to show the characteristics of samba dance, dancers must perform cheerfully, emotionally and passionately. Nowadays, many movements in sambari require the dancer's pelvis to tilt. This action is difficult to complete, but without it, samba will lose its unique charm. Before 19 14, it was famous by a man named "Maxixe" in Brazil. The first attempt to introduce samba into European ballroom was in 1923- 1924, but it was not until after World War II that samba became popular in Europe.
Samba has a unique rhythm, among which it is famous for its musical instruments with Brazilian characteristics: it was originally called tamborim, chocalho, reco-reco and cabaca.