Rumba in Cuba, with its chants, movements, gestures and music acts as an expression of resistance and self-esteem while evoking grace, sensuality and joy to connect people. Transmission occurs via ...

Last week while music publishers were haggling ... Te Odio (I Hate You), Me Odias (You Hate Me). He went into Cuba’s interior and studied the primitive rumba dance, a series of writhings and ...

Neither in steps nor in body motions does the Brazilian samba bear any relation to the Cuban rumba or the fast-fading ... improvise fancy variations. The Music. Even tone-deaf people can identify ...

The show starts with a performance of the more traditional Afro-Cuban music and dance styles associated with Santeria, and ends with a high-energy rumba that gets foreigners and Cubans alike up ...