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Boston Calling: Dance Lessons

Dance Lessons

09/12/2017 GMT

BBC World Service - Boston Calling, Dance Lessons

Ever heard of the clave? It's the foundation of salsa, boogaloo, mambo, and more.

It’s the beat that drives the bugaloo and mambo. Ayana Contreras travels to Cuba to understand the clave. 

Plus, we go beneath a motorway flyover in Rio de Janeiro, where US hip-hop from the 1990s gets re-imagined every Saturday night; we meet a 9-year-old boy who is preserving his family’s Cambodian history through dance; South African superstar Johnny Clegg tells us how he helped form an interracial dance troupe during apartheid; and we remember Johnny Hallyday, “the French Elvis Presley”.

(Image: Dancers at the weekly Saturday night charme dance in Madureira, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone. Credit: Catherine Osborn)

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