- Two professional dancers beautifully demonstrate the rumba and conga while actors humorously display some incorrect techniques for those dances.
- Using Arthur Murray's teaching techniques, Pete Smith's narration, and demonstrations by Pollard and Alvarez, a detailed lesson in the rumba and a quick lesson in the conga are provided. Interspersed with useful illustrations are comic ones of dancers making errors. The rumba lesson consists of how to stand, head, hip, and knee action, the box step and the box turn, the walking step, various under-the-hand turns, and the drag step. The conga demonstration includes various couples from cultures around the world (Scots, Eskimo, Russians, Swiss, and others) dancing the conga. Cuban music plays throughout.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
- At dance clubs, one often sees exaggerated and incorrect movements to standard dances, such as the rumba. Professional dance couple Pollard and Alvarez demonstrate the basics of the rumba, including body positioning, hip and leg action, and movement of the box step leading to more complicated variations such as the turn, straight line walking step sequence, open position, underhand turn, the American turn, and the drag step. A dance that is a little freer in its interpretation is the conga, known primarily as a group dance, although it can be a couple's dance. Because of the general freedom within the dance, many cultural variations have emerged. However, the dancers still need to be in synch with the others.—Huggo
- This Pete Smith Specialty series entry takes a humorous look at two Cuban dances that were popular in the USA in the late 1930s and early 1940s. First the viewer learns how to dance the rumba, starting with a box step, then with several variations. Then viewer learns all about the conga.—David Glagovsky <dglagovsky@prodigy.net>
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