“We have a number of people who come and dance with the same partner every year,” he says. Guests spend each day dancing for five hours or more, learning foxtrot, waltz, tango, rumba, cha-cha ...

After all, rumba means “party.” The lively music and dance form emerged in the mid-19th century, when the drumming of enslaved Africans blended with the melodies of Spanish colonizers—“a ...

Tallahassee dancer Rebecca Kelly also loves ballroom dancing. She's one of three local women who started USA Dance Chapter ...

The late Papa Wemba was one of rumba's biggest stars One of the most influential genres of African music and dance, Congolese rumba, now has Unesco-protected status. It is the culmination of ...

DAKAR, Dec 14 (Reuters) - The heady beats of Congolese rumba were hailed by UNESCO on Tuesday as it added the central African music and dance to its list of global cultural treasures. The ...