Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms.
01 · What it is
Music
Vocal, percussive, or instrumental sound tradition carried by community performers.
02 · Where & name
Brazil
Written in its own script on record as Samba de gafieira.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
1 cited source
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Common Questions Answered on Record
What is samba de gafieira in plain words?
Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. In local script on record, it is written Samba de gafieira.
Where is samba de gafieira practised or documented?
Sources on this page place samba de gafieira in Brazil.
What is the current condition of samba de gafieira today?
□□□□ (Not yet assessed): Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
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Samba de Gafieira (also called Gafieira) is a partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms. Unlike street and club forms of Brazilian samba, it evolved as a ballroom dance (dança de salão, literally, "salon dance").
Samba de Gafieira differs from the ballroom Samba, danced in International Latin and American Rhythm ballroom dance styles.
Gafieira is usually a pair dance, although in artistic performances it is not uncommon to add solo variations, including steps of Samba no Pé.
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Samba de Gafieira”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence.
samba de gafieira is partner dance to various Brazilian samba musical rhythms; music genre, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 1
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