Editing Dance (section)

=== Latin America ===
{{main|Latin American dance}}
[[File:HK TST night 柏麗購物大道 Park Lane Shopper's Boulevard 巴西 Brasil 森巴舞娘 Samba female dancers Nov-2010 02.JPG|thumb|left|upright=1.1| [[samba school|Street samba]] dancers perform in carnival parades and contests.]]
Dance is central to [[Latin America]]n social life and culture. Brazilian [[Samba (Brazilian dance)|Samba]], Argentinian [[tango]], and Cuban [[salsa (dance)|salsa]] are internationally popular partner dances, and other national dances—[[merengue (dance)|merengue]], [[cueca]], [[plena]], [[jarabe]], [[joropo]], [[marinera]], [[cumbia]], [[Bachata (dance)|bachata]] and others—are important components of their respective countries' cultures.<ref name="Chasteen2004">{{cite book|author=John Charles Chasteen|title=National Rhythms, African Roots: The Deep History of Latin American Popular Dance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=yBvvvrydCNwC&pg=PR8|date=1 January 2004|publisher=UNM Press|isbn=978-0-8263-2941-7|pages=8–14}}</ref> Traditional [[Carnival]] festivals incorporate these and other dances in enormous celebrations.<ref name="MusmonHanley2010">{{cite book|author1=Margaret Musmon|author2=Elizabeth A. Hanley|author3=Jacques D'Amboise|title=Latin and Caribbean Dance|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qIZq7jgqXE8C|year=2010|publisher=Infobase Publishing|isbn=978-1-60413-481-0|pages=20–23}}</ref>

Dance has played an important role in forging a collective identity among the many cultural and ethnic groups of [[Latin America]].<ref name="DelgadoMuñoz1997">{{cite book|author1=Celeste Fraser Delgado|author2=José Esteban Muñoz|title=Everynight Life: Culture and Dance in Latin/o America|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gefjk07Y9kEC&pg=PA3|year=1997|publisher=Duke University Press|isbn=978-0-8223-1919-1|pages=9–41}}</ref> Dance served to unite the many African, European, and indigenous peoples of the region.<ref name="Chasteen2004"/> Certain dance genres, such as [[capoeira]], and body movements, especially the characteristic ''[[quebrada (dance)|quebrada]]s'' or [[pelvis]] swings, have been variously banned and celebrated throughout Latin American history.<ref name="DelgadoMuñoz1997"/>{{clear}}