"ARTHUR MURRAY STEPS IN THE RUMBA & MAMBO " 1940s DANCE INSTRUCTIONAL FILM LATIN DANCING 50934

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This black & white Arthur Murray instructional film demonstrates how to do the Rumba and the Mambo. The film dates to the 1940s. Arthur Murray (1895 - 1991) was a famous American ballroom dancer and businessman. After WWII, Murray's dance instruction business grew with the rise of interest in Latin dance, and he regularly taught and broadcast in Cuba in the 1950s. He later hosted the television show The Arthur Murray Party for a decade from 1950-60.
Opening titles: The Arthur Murray Steps In The Rumba and Mambo (:10-:19). Title: Introduction to Rumba Motion. Mr. Luis Arnold walks, then sways his hips. Arnold keeps walking and swaying his hips and doing a box step, teaching the dance move (:20-1:47). Arnold does the movement to the right and then forward and back, all while swaying his hips. Title: Rumba Breaks: Forward, Back and Side Side Breaks in 5th Position. Arnold dances with a female and holds her close and they go side to side and sway (1:48-3:12). Title: Open Break. Couple dances in fancy clothes. Title: Mambo Box. Hips sway and forward side and forward back side. Mambo is performed. Title: Mambo Box Variation. The motion is explained and shown. Title: Mambo Breaks: Forward, Back, and Side. Couple dances these moves (3:13-4:51). Title: Back Spot Turn with Mambo Break. Couple does the turn and shows it again. Title: Forward Spot Turn with Mambo Break. Couple shows the move twice. Title: Box Break with Underarm Turn. Couple Shows the move twice and sways (4:52-6:05). Title: Simple Scallop. Couple turns and moves, does the move twice. Title: Underarm Turn. Couple performs the motion twice. Title: The Surprise. Couple sways and goes backwards. Title: Cross Step. Dance is shown twice. Title Cross Step Variation. The couple dances close and performs the motion twice. Title: Cross-over Back to Back. Couple shows the move twice (6:06-8:17). Title: Half Moon. Couple does a spin move twice. Title: Walk Around Spin. Couple performs the move twice. Title: Tale Turn. Couple pull away, spin, show the move. Title: The Scallop. Women does a spin, move is shown twice. Title: Dip Break. The man dips the woman slightly after a spin. Title: Mambo Drag. Couple spins and shows the move repeatedly (8:18-11:00). Couple dances performing many moves, then stops (11:00-11:29). End credits (11:30-11:51).
Rumba, also spelled rhumba, ballroom dance of Afro-Cuban folk-dance origin that became internationally popular in the early 20th century. Best known for the dancers' subtle side to side hip movements with the torso erect, the rumba is danced with a basic pattern of two quick side steps and a slow forward step. Mambo is a Cuban style that combines elements of popular Latin dance genres with the musical sophistication of the son Cubano genre-the bedrock of the broader musical style known as salsa.
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@kennethjohnson9370 2 жыл бұрын

When I was growing up on the sixties my parents use to dance to this music in our dining room I would watch the dance

@kittymervine6115 2 жыл бұрын

it's so lovely, but also I was "Wait I'm watching a lot of butt!"

@Nunofurdambiznez 2 жыл бұрын

Ok.. a butt video.. kinda odd, but, hey.. that's the '40s for ya...

@waldoenriquemariscalpelaez3381 Жыл бұрын

More clear evidence that "American Exeptionalism" -- went EVERYWHERE including in having the nerve to dictate how Cuban music was to be danced. They "invented the "Rhumba" (with an H") for all the American vacationeers who went to the island, who could not and were not allowed to dance REAL Rumba (the one without the H). In fact, the real Rumba was not for the ruling white elites either- It was in survival mode, protected by an oppressed afro-cuban population.. That (white) "Rhumba"in fact was a "lite" version of Son-Montuno, or Son. In the 1930's the Danzon and El Son, were the most popular dances and music and one had to know how to dance "en Clave". Both generes empowered one another. El Danzon gave birth to el Danzonete and thanks to rearrangements in el Son, by Arsenio Rodriguez, musicians in the band of Arcano Y sus Maravillas, including Israel Lopez, and Perez Prado, pushed the danzon into the new Danzon, the Descarga, and the Mambo. The Danzon-Mambo, was closer to el Son in late 1939. But In the early 40's, Julio Cueva, Arturo Nunez, Perez Prado and Bebo Baldez among others experimented in the jazzy boogy style to the guaracha, or the Guaracha-Mambo. In the mid-40's, in Cuba, Mambo was for a jazzy audience. It blossomed in Mexico with the help of the cuban jazz musicians who lived there, and the movies produced. Once it became popular, NO ONE, wanted to dance the mambo in a "ballroom" style holding hands. That was OUT. People danced to the rhythm, to the drums, LIKE DANCING REAL RUMBA and almost acrobatically.

@gordonayres2609 3 ай бұрын

I think there is an inverted snobbery of the intellectual of modern times who looks back through the telescope of contemporary thought often , and has no understanding of the wide sweep of life in the 1920s ,30s and 40s when the ballrooms were the democracy of the everyday person. Many a Latin and even black person would dance a romantic fox-trot and even dance a rumba that was not yet of the jazzed style that arrived after the period you describe , but it still has a great deal of beauty in it. After a time , especially the bebop era , most people who were serious listeners never danced. That has become the fate of the jazz scene . The ballroom dance scene today is a farce of flashy disco ,which would well do with some of the restraint shown in these dance shorts After all it is only meant to be an instruction guide . When seen in action on a dancefloor in a club with a band like Tito Puente on the turn table and the floor busy , or even some early Cugat , it resonates with style and ambiance and people, admire it. I've seen people in Spain,France dance to it in all sorts of vintage scenes dance to it with great style .I can dance the old Latin Ballroom techniques myself and I suppose defend it in a way. There is no point in setting out niche designations of what is real or not real. Rather discuss the social history of it ,which you do quite well in fact.