Rumba (dance)

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Rumba Colombia, one of the Afro-Cuban rumbas

Rumba is a dance term with two quite different meanings.

In some contexts, "rumba" is used as shorthand for Afro-Cuban rumba, a group of dances related to
the rumba genre of Afro-Cuban music. The most common Afro-Cuban rumba is the guaguanc.
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The other Afro-Cuban rumbas are Yambu and Colombia.
In other contexts, "rumba" refers to ballroom-rumba, one of the ballroom dances which occurs in
social dance and in international competitions. In this sense, rumba is the slowest of the five
competitive International Latin dances: the paso doble, the samba, the cha-cha-cha and
the jive being the others. This ballroom rumba was derived from a Cuban rhythm and dance called
the bolero-son; the international style was derived from studies of dance in Cuba in the prerevolutionary period.[2]