page_title: Latin dance
hierarchical_section_title: Latin dance
caption_attribution_description: Latin dancing (intermediate) at the 2006 MIT Ballroom Dance Competition
context_page_description: Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that originated in Latin America.
  The category of Latin dances in the international dancesport competitions consists of the cha-cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, and also the jive of United States origin.
  Social Latin dances include salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, bachata, bomba and plena. There are many dances which were popular in the first part of the 20th century, but which are now of only historical interest. The Cuban danzón is a good example.
  Perreo is a Puerto Rican dance associated with Reggaeton music with Jamaican and Caribbean influences. escondido and zamba. Typical Bolivian folk dances are the morenada, kullawada, caporales and the recently created tinku. In Colombia one of the typical dances is the cumbia.
context_section_description: Latin dance is a general label, and a term in partner dance competition jargon. It refers to types of ballroom dance and folk dance that (with few exceptions) originated in Latin America.
  The category of Latin dances in the international dancesport competitions consists of the cha-cha-cha, rumba, samba, paso doble, and also the jive of United States origin.
  Social Latin dances (Street Latin) include salsa, mambo, merengue, rumba, bachata, bomba and plena. There are many dances which were popular in the first part of the 20th century, but which are now of only historical interest. The Cuban danzón is a good example.
  Perreo is a Puerto Rican dance associated with Reggaeton music with Jamaican and Caribbean influences. escondido and zamba. Typical Bolivian folk dances are the morenada, kullawada, caporales and the recently created tinku. In Colombia one of the typical dances is the cumbia.
caption: Intermediate level international-style Latin dancing at the 2006 MIT ballroom dance competition.  A judge stands in the foreground.
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