Social dance. What is bachata?

In recent years, in large and small cities were clubs for social dancing. What is social dancing? In fact — “people”. Dance not for dance but for fun. No competitions, judges, medals and prizes. One of the popular areas of social dance is bachata. Alexander Shadrin, Shutterstock.com the Formation of Bachata is a musical genre and form of dance originally from the Dominican Republic. It is believed that its origin occurred in the 30s of the last century. Active development was in the middle of the last century. For a long time bachata was considered the music of the poor: at parties that were held just on the street or in the courtyards of houses, danced to songs about unrequited love and the problems of the poor. Refined nobility did not recognize the “low genre”. Continue reading →