Complex sentence: Like the habanera, the danzón evolved from the Contradanza, originally of English origin, brought to Cuba by French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s.
Split into simpler sentences: Like the habanera, the danzón evolved from the contradanza. Originally, the contradanza was of English origin, and was brought to Cuba by French colonists fleeing the Haitian Revolution in the 1790s.