Latin dance
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wide range of dances originating in Latin America, Cuba and Puerto Rico
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Encyclopedic overview
Intermediate level international-style Latin dancing at the 2006 MIT ballroom dance competition. A judge stands in the foreground.
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 mainly originated in Latin America, though a few styles originated elsewhere.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Latin dance” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.