Dance Styles - Rumba (American Ballroom)

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Welcome to Rumba (also spelled as Rhumba)!

• Originating from Cuba, Rumba has a “quick-quick-slow” beat and is referred to as the “dance of love” or the "dance of romance".
  
• There are several different types of Rumba:
  
  • (a) American-style Ballroom Rumba;
    
  • (b) International-style Ballroom Rumba; and
    
  • (c) Cuban Rumba (which is further subdivided into (i) Rumba Yambu, (ii) Rumba Guaguanco, and (iii) Rumba Columbia (solo dance)).​
    
• We teach American Rumba at BoogieCamp, which has the Box Step as the basic step.

Rumba Play List

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Dance Steps & Video Lessons for Beginners 

All videos link to YouTube and have been created by third parties not affiliated with BoogieCamp (unless specified otherwise). ​

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• Basic Box Step
  

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• Crossover Breaks & Underarm Turn
  

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• Quick Chasses
  

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• Open Break & Underarm Turn
  

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• Cuban Walks
  

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• Parallel Breaks
  

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• Butterfly
  

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• Fifth Position Breaks
  

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• Crossover Breaks & Follower Swivels
  

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• Fallaway and Walks
  

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• ​Cross Body Lead
  

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Rumba Moves for Solo Dancers

In addition to learning the Leader and/or Follower moves in the above partner dancing videos, below is a track using solo American Rumba moves.

Video created by Olga at BoogieCamp

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Want to learn Rumba?

You can learn to dance Rumba with your partner in our Couples Latin Dance classes.