joropo

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Joropo is the national ballroom dance of Venezuela. It is a lively couple dance characterized by stamping steps performed in three-quarter time. The dance is also found in eastern Colombia.12

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Latin American dance
Central America, Colombia, and Venezuela
called the bambuco and joropo. The bambuco combines features of the fandango, Andean, and Afro-Latin dances as partners use a handkerchief to flirt and to embellish the courtship theme of the dance. The joropo is distinctive beyond the separation of the couple, with the man dancing the zapateado, for…
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called the bambuco and joropo. The bambuco combines features of the fandango, Andean, and Afro-Latin dances as partners use a handkerchief to flirt and to embellish the courtship theme of the dance. The joropo is distinctive beyond the separation of the couple, with the man dancing the zapateado, for…
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