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Summary Of Bomba Puerto Rican Dance

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According to Julia De Burgos (2013) video ‘Bomba Puerto Rican Dance” Bomba is described as a traditional musical style from Puerto Rico. It was created through mixture of three different cultures, as african and Taino cultures. Its rhythm is created by playing two or more drums. Also, this video states that Bomba used to be played during weddings and those who dance it creates a conversation with their movements. Based on this video, men and women had a lot of differents by dancing Bomba. Both of them dress differently; women wear long white dresses, with a red bow at waist and a big red rose on their head. But, men white shirt, black pants, and black shoes. In terms of dancing, women and men have a lot similarities; both of them dance moving

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