On Saturday October 21, the Takiri Folclor Latino performed at 7 PM on the 32nd International Festival of Raleigh at the Raleigh Conventional Center. This is a nice festival that offers high-quality arts though dance and musical performances, visual art, textile design and cultural expression from across the globe. This year approximately 250 representing over 83 countries. This festival began on Friday and end on Sunday. It normally brings 33,000 visitors every year. During this event I was able to participate the music and dance of Colombia. Most of the public including were sitting in chairs that were in front of the big stage, some other people were standing appreciating the show while we were…show more content… The songs and the rhythm was Latin music from Colombia. These rhythms were Cumbia, Bambuco, Porro, Currulao, Joropo, Salsa, Bullerengue, and Merecumbe. The Cumbia was a complex, rhythmic music which played on Colombia's Atlantic coast. It began as a courtship dance practiced among the African population on the Caribbean coasts of Colombia. In its form, this cumbia rhythm included percussion, vocals, saxophones, trumpets, keyboards and trombones. The dance movements for this rhythm is very focused with wide hip movements and very small and short steps. A basic step often seen in Cumbia dancing is the back-break basic. Cumbia is characterized by a "wind-up" motion and it is often danced in a circular pattern sometimes called the Columbian or Cumbia circle basic. This dance was originally a dance that the slaves use to dance in the Atlantic area of the north of Colombia. when the slaves had some time to get together but they were dancing with chains on their feet so, that is why their steps are very close and short. I know this because I was born in Colombia and we love to dance is part of our culture. Another rhythm that was in the performer was Joropo, it is a rhythm that is called “Música Llanera” and the main instrument is the harp. I recognized that the song that was performed during the dance was “Ay, si, si” by Luis Ariel Rey. The dancers focus on the movements from the legs, they supposed to go with the rhyme of the instrument of maracas; it is very
