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What is Bachata?
Bachata is a style of dance that originated in the Dominican Republic. It is danced widely all over the world but not identically.

The basics to the dance are three-step with a Cuban hip motion, followed by a tap including a hip movement on the 4th beat. The knees should be slightly bent so the performer can sway the hips easier. The movement of the hips is very important because it's a part of the soul of the dance. Generally, most of the dancer's movement is in the lower body up to the hips, and the upper body moves much less.

In partnering, the lead can decide whether to perform in open or closed position. Dance moves, or step variety, during performance strongly depends on the music (such as the rhythms played by the different instruments), setting, mood, and interpretation. Unlike Salsa, Bachata dance does not usually include complex turn patterns but they are used more and more as the dance evolves. The leading is done just like in most other social dances, with a "pushing and pulling" hand and arm communication. Hand and arm communication is better conveyed when most of the movement is performed by the lower body (from waist down); i.e. hips and footwork. Bachata is commonly known by many as a very sensual dance. To most it may seem that way, however, that is not what it is intended to be taken as. Bachata is a dance, done by a person with another, to express the feelings one has for a specific other. It is believed by most, that the more smoothly and more frequently the hips are used and moved, the more feelings the individual has for the other. With that said bachata originated as a sort of "mating call," if you were selected for a dance of bachata, you were chosen as a mate, two dances with the same individual, "sealed the deal."

The original dance style from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean is a basic dance sequence is a full 8 count moving within a square. Dancers in the Western World later began developing a more simple pattern, also in a full 8 count, but with a side-to-side motion. Both Styles consist of 3 steps normal and then a tap step. The tap is often accompanied by a "pop" of the hips, and is sometimes substituted with syncopations (steps in between the beats - some similar to cha-cha-cha steps and others much different). Bachata music has an accent in rhythm at every fourth count. Often, this is when dancers will tap-step & pop their hips - this is called dancing bachata to the music (because the first step after the pop falls on the 1st beat of the measure). But bachata can be danced to different timings as well if it's danced to one particular instrument instead. The tab or 'pop' is done in the opposite direction of the last step, while the next step is taken on the same direction as the tap or pop. The dance direction changes after the tap or fourth step.

All about Bachata music

The earliest bachata originated in the countryside in Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century. Jose Manuel Calderon recorded the first Bachata song, "Borracho de amor" in 1962. The genre mixed the pan- Latin American style called bolero with more African elements coming from Son, and the troubadour singing tradition common in Latin America. During much of its history, Bachata music was disregarded by Dominican elite and associated with rural underdevelopment and crime. As recently as the 1980s, bachata was considered too vulgar, crude and musically rustic to be broadcast on television or radio in the Dominican Republic. In the 1990s, however, bachata's instrumentation changed from nylon string Spanish guitar and maracas of Traditional Bachata to the electric steel string and guira of Modern Bachata. Bachata further transformed in the 21st century with the creation of Urban Bachata styles by bands such as Monchy y Alexandra and Aventura. These new modern styles of bachata become an international phenomenon, and today bachata is one of the most popular styles of Latin music, even overtaking salsa and merengue in many Latin American dance halls.

Instrumentations

The typical bachata group consists of seven instruments: Requinto (lead guitar), Segunda (rhythm guitar), electric guitar, guitar, bass guitar, bongos and güira. The Segunda serves the purpose of adding syncopation to the music. Bachata groups mainly play a straightforward style of bolero (lead guitar instrumentation using arpeggiated repetitive chords is a distinctive characteristic of bachata), but when they change to merengue-based bachata, the percussionist will switch from bongo to a tambora drum. In the 1960s and 1970s, maracas were used instead of güira. The change in the 1980s from maracas to the more versatile güira was made as bachata was becoming more dance oriented.

Music history

The first Dominican bachatas were recorded immediately after the death of Trujillo, whose 30-year dictatorship was accompanied by censorship. José Manuel Calderón is credited as having recorded the first bachata singles: ("Borracho de amor" and "Que será de mi (Condena)") released on 45 rpm in 1961. After Trujillo's death, the floodgates were opened: following Calderon's historic bachata debut came more recordings by the likes of Rodobaldo Duartes, Rafael Encarnacion, Ramoncito Cabrera El Chivo Sin Ley, Corey Perro, Antonio Gómez Sacero, Luis Segura, Louis Loizides, Eladio Romero Santos, Ramón Cordero, and many more. The 1960s saw the birth of the Dominican music industry and of the bachata music which would dominate it.

While the bachatas being recorded in the 1960s had a distinctly Dominican flavor, they were regarded at the time as a variant of bolero, as the term bachata, which originally referred to an informal rustic party, had not yet come into use. This term was first applied to the music by those seeking to disparage it. The higher echelons of Dominican society felt that bachata music was an expression of cultural backwardness, and a campaign ensued to brand bachata in this negative light.

The 1970s were dark years for bachata. The music was seldom played on the radio, and almost unmentioned on television and in print. Bachateros were also barred from performing in high society venues - having to content themselves instead with gigs in bars and brothels in the country's poorest neighborhoods. The music was influenced by its surroundings; sex, despair and crime were amongst numerous topics the genre highlighted. This only furthered the cause of those seeking to tar bachata as a music of the barrios. Despite its unofficial censorship, bachata remained widely popular, while orchestral merengue benefited from the country's major publicity outlets. However, bachata continued to outsell merengue[citation needed ]. Some bachateros to emerge from this era were Marino Perez and Leonardo Paniagua.

By the early 1980s, bachata's popularity could not be denied. Due to popular demand, more radio stations began playing bachata, and bachateros soon found themselves performing on television as well. Bachata in the meantime had begun to take on a more dance-hall sound: tempos increased, guitar playing became punchier, and call and response singing more prevalent. Bachata style merengues, or guitar merengues, also became an increasingly important part of the bachata repertoire. Blas Durán was the first to record with electric guitar in his 1987 bachata-merengue hit, "Mujeres hembras".

By the early 1990s, the sound was further modernized and the bachata scene was dominated by two new young stars: Luis Vargas and Antony Santos. Both incorporated a large number of bachata-merengues in their repertoires. Santos, Vargas and the many new style bachateros who would follow achieved a level of stardom which was unimaginable to the bachateros who preceded them. They were the first generation of pop bachata artists and received all the hype and image branding typical of commercial pop music elsewhere. It was also at this time that bachata began to emerge internationally as a music of Hispanic dance-halls.

Juan Luis Guerra's Grammy-winning 1992 release, Bachata Rosa, is routinely credited[by whom? ] with making the genre more acceptable and helping bachata achieve legitimacy and international recognition. Although he used the word bachata in the album title, none of the songs reflected the distinctive bachata sound.

By the beginning of the 21st century, the bachata group Aventura had taken the bachata envisioned by Juan Luis Guerra in the early 1990s to new heights. Led by lead singer Anthony "Romeo" Santos, they revolutionized and modernized the genre. They sold out Madison Square Garden numerous times and released countless top ten hits on the hot Latin charts including two number one hits "Por un segundo" and "Dile al Amor". Other big bachata acts in the decade included "Monchy y Alexandra" and Los Toros Band. By the beginning of the new decade, Aventura had split up because group member Henry Santos wanted to go solo, leaving the others to do their own thing. Today, parallel to Bachata music, fusion genres arose in western countries such as the USA, combining some of the rhythmic elements of Bachata music with elements of western music such as Hip Hop, R&B, pop, techno and more. This fusion genre is quite popular among western audiences, and often includes covers of western pop songs played on MTV and non Latin radio stations. Notable artist of the new fusion genre are Prince Royce, Xtreme and Toby Love, among others. By 2011 former Aventura member Romeo Santos also joined the fusion bandwagon, releasing several new albums which became popular in the USA and other western countries. The hip-hop artist Drake in his music video of "Hotline Bling" based his dance moves off of Bachata music.

Bachata Dance Styles
Original/Dominican
The original Bachata dance style comes from the Dominican Republic where the music also was born. The early slow style in the fifties from where everything started was danced only closed, like the Bolero. The Bachata Basic Steps moving within a small square (side, side, forward and side, side, back) are also inspired from the Bolero but danced slightly different in Bachata and danced with syncopations (steps in between the beats) depending on the dancer's mood and the character of the music. The hand placement will vary with the dancers position which can be very close to semi-close to open.

The Original Dominican Bachata is today danced all over the Caribbean, now also faster in accordance to faster music, adding more footwork, turns/figures and rhythmic free style moves and with alternate between close (romantic) and open position (more playful adding footwork, turns/figures, rhythmic torso etc.). This style is danced with soft hip movements and a tap with a small "pop" with the hip on the 4th beat (1, 2, 3, Tab/Hip). Can be danced with or without bounce (moving the body down on the beats and up again in between the beats by springs the legs a little). Dominican Bachata is created by the people over many years (from around late fifties) for social dancing and is still evolving.
Traditional
At some point, perhaps in the late 1980s or early 1990s, dancers/dance-schools in the Western World began using a simpler side to side pattern instead of the box-steps probably due to a misunderstanding of the original steps. The basic steps of this pattern move side to side, changing direction after every tap. Characteristics of this style are the close connection between partners, soft hip movements, and tap with a small "pop" of the hip on the 4th step (1, 2, 3, Tap/Hip). Most of the styling in this style is from Ballroom Dance and Dips are commonly used in this style. This is the first so-called Fusion Style Bachata because it's not technical or stylistic danced semilar to the Original Bachata because it contains elements and styling from the western way of dancing.
Modern/Moderna
A newer Fusion Style probably from around 2005. This style is widely considered to have originated in Spain, but as with all evolutions of dance style this itself is widely debated. The basics are the same as Traditional Style Bachata, but with added dance elements and styling from Salsa, Tango, Zouk-lambada, Ballroom etc. In the style, couples typically move their upper torsos more, put greater emphasis on the hip pop, and women use more exaggerated hip movements. The most direct fusion influence on modern style bachata dancing comes from the adoption of salsa turn patterns. There is also a even newer modern Urban Style that incorporates HipHop elements but this style basically also have the same technical base as Modern Style.
Bachatango/Bachata Tango
Fusion Style from the West to with short sequences of Traditional basic steps but mostly Tango steps danced like Tango. The "pop" count is used to add elaborated sensuality and varied Latin dance styles but mostly taken from Tango. Vueltas like Traditional. Although this dance has been used to dance to Bachata, it has evolved to be used to dance to Tango as well. Even though BachaTango is unheard of in the Dominican Republic, Bachata's country of origin, BachaTango has become popular with foreign instructors outside the Caribbean.

Bachata Sensual

Bachata Sensual was made popular in Spain. Bachata Sensual is a mix between dance and theatre with strict follow and lead principles. The dance is an interpretation of the music with mostly circular movements and body waves, except when the music has stronger beats, when the dance uses isolations and dips.
Ballroom Bachata
Fusion Style developed in the West to, for competition dance only, with very extreme hip movements and lots of Ballroom Dance styling. It is used predominantly for Ballroom competitions rather than social dancing. Basic step is based on Traditional.
Other styles
There are "many other styles" of Bachata from the west, pioneered and promoted by different teachers around the world, each with its own distinct flair. Whether these are considered completely different styles or simply variations of the main styles above is often argued by teachers and students alike.

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El origen de este ritmo popular, que en la actualidad tiene gran incidencia en el gusto musical de los dominicanos, se ubica a comienzo de los años 20 del siglo XX.

El término bachata era otorgado a un tipo de reunión social, emparentada con la jarana de la época, definido por la presencia de varios géneros de música y baile populares.

Etimológicamente, la palabra bachata es sinónimo de fiesta, distracción, juerga, holgorio, parranda, según Fernando Ortiz.

La bachata constituía una forma de recreación popular: una fiesta que se realizaba en cualquier patio, bajo la sombra de un árbol callejero, o en una esquina cualquiera, y cuyo antecedente podría establecerse que fue el fandango, del cual refiere Veloz Maggiolo que: "Casi todos los cronistas que tocan este tema lo refieren a una festividad abierta y no a una música".

Las dos menciones más antiguas, acerca de la bachata, encontradas en documentos datan de 1922 y 1927. La primera la contiene un informe que se refiere al hombre común del poblado de Sabaneta, en la Línea Noroeste, donde se habla de vicios y apetitos mal contenidos.

La segunda mención en la que aparecía este ritmo, definía la bachata como animados jolgorios en los que "el trovador popular se hacía rey y comentarista de todo suceso empleando para ello el repentizado bolero.
Caracteristicas
De ambas menciones se pueden extraer algunas características de la bachata antigua: conjugaba música, canto y baile; el bolero era inicialmente el género predominante, pero se trataba de un bolero rítmico, antillano, puesto que era bailable, lo cual a su vez significa que participaban hombres y mujeres; y era frecuente el consumo de ron.

Según los investigadores, este género era un complejo socio-musical del cual fundiendo ritmos, melodías e instrumentos y adaptándolos al ambiente nativo, nació posteriormente un modo musical e interpretativo de aspecto autóctono, que dio al traste con el género musical de la bachata.

Es preciso señalar que en aquellos años se diferenciaban los términos fiesta, baile y bachata, como puntualizaba Ramón Emilio Jiménez, ya en 1955.

Se entendía, comúnmente, que las tres eran celebraciones diferentes: se consideraba baile las que tenían lugar en salones de lujo, donde primaban las danzas selectas de la época, cuya realización se hacía con orquesta; a su vez, las fiestas eran las celebraciones con güira, tambora y acordeón, o sea, donde la música predominante era el merengue, el zapateo y otros ritmos folklóricos similares.

Las bachatas eran específicamente las celebraciones que se hacían con guitarras, bongó, palitos o cucharas, y otros instrumentos afines, y donde se bailaba predominantemente boleros y guarachas, pero también se entonaba son, ranchera y merengue con guitarra.

Pacini Hernández define la bachata como una música popular dominicana autóctona, que emerge en 1961, teniendo como base las músicas latinoamericanas tocadas con guitarra, como bolero, ranchera y son.

Indica, además, que el típico conjunto de bachatas se compone de dos guitarras, maracas -sustituidas recientemente por la güira- y el bongó -sustituido ocasionalmente por la tumbadora-.

En tal celebración los instrumentos eran ejecutados por músicos generalmente improvisados y aislados en su medio, lo cual le imprimía a los ritmos que servían al baile las motivaciones propias de aquél universo marginal.

En una sociedad predominantemente rural como la de entonces, podía ser la enramada rústica o la sombra de un árbol, y en la ciudad, el parque o el patio de una vivienda. De esa manera, la bachata se extendió lentamente.
Origen Social
Por su origen social y temático, desde un principio aparecieron sectores aficionados a la bachata, casos de las trabajadoras domésticas, guardias, campesinos y peones, entre otros. Puede señalarse que en estos grupos sociales, la música es síntesis de cientos de años de vivencias en la marginalidad.

En relación con ellos fue que surgieron distintas denominaciones para la bachata, con sentido peyorativo, tales como "música de guardia", "canciones de amargue", o "discos de vellonera". A todas estas manifestaciones se les consideraba "bajas" por su origen social plebes, inmorales, indecentes, impuras, pecaminosas.

A partir de los años treinta, el tipo de celebración que era la bachata se extiende hasta los bares, casas de cita, y lugares similares.

En Santiago de los Caballeros era famoso el llamado Callejón de la Alegría, donde por primera vez se usó el saxofón en el Caribe a comienzos del siglo XX en el conjunto denominado Perico Ripiao - que ejecuta el merengue típico dominicano-, y por donde, también, ingresó a la República Dominicana el son cubano alrededor de 1930.
Bachata y baile
El artista dominicano, Juan Luis Guerra reconoce en la bachata "un bolero antillano", otros observan también la influencia de la guaracha y del son, en los años ochenta se puso en evidencia la existencia de dos vertientes rítmicas de la bachata, una pausada y otra acelerada.

Existe la hipótesis de que los primeros bachateros crearon una forma propia y acelerada de bolero, con letras similares a la de este y una manera gangosa de cantar, con una voz de resonancias nasales, y con giros de desgarramiento, dolor y amargura, de ahí el sobrenombre de "música de amargue" que se le endilgó durante mucho tiempo.

A estas formas de canto y música se le agregó un cambio en coreografía del baile, incluyendo un elevamiento de los pies al concluir cada ciclo de los movimientos del baile, con lo cual quedó conformado el género como un ente musical y danzario autónomo, en los años sesenta del siglo XX.
Bachata urbana
A la caída de Trujillo, la afición por la guaracha era tal que pronto esa influencia encontró una expresión masiva en la radio, en aquél entonces, Radio Guarachita se convirtió en la emisora especializada en esa música, cuyo nombre salió de la inclinación popular hacia ese ritmo.

El nombre de Guaracha y el de Música de Amargue, durante mucho tiempo se disputaron la denominación del nuevo género, aunque en los tiempos recientes el nombre de bachata se ha hecho indisputable.

El paso final hacia la constitución de la bachata como especie musical autónoma resulta difícil establecerlo con precisión debido a que su evolución fue espontánea y anónima, al ser revisados los planteamientos de los conocedores de este tema.

De manera tentativa se expone que el paso definitivo de la bachata se produjo en el ámbito urbano, contrario a la idea de que su origen es rural.

Dicho en otras palabras, aunque el término bachata designaba en sus orígenes una actividad de preeminencia rural, el género musical bachata, que resultó de la evolución de aquélla, es de origen urbano, producto de un movimiento de traslación que convirtió a las ciudades en el epicentro de actividad. Los datos indican que ese paso se produjo entre 1950 y 1965.

En los años treinta, en Santiago de los Caballeros, de donde fue mencionado El Callejón de la Alegría, se conocieron como músicos "bachateros" a Ramón Wagner ("Mon La Bruja"), y al "Conjunto de la Mulatería", donde tocaban Jim Sánchez y Morito Sánchez, entre otros.

En esos años alcanzaron popularidad en el país lo grupos cubanos como Los Compadres, el Sexteto Habanero y el Trío Matamoros, el cual se encontraba en Santo Domingo en agosto de 1930, y en donde pasaron el ciclón San Zenón, el cual dio origen al tema El Ciclón.

Las transformaciones parece que ocurrieron a partir de entonces, y antes de la guerra patriótica de 1965, como síntesis de varias confluencias.
Historia más reciente de la bachata
En 1989 el músico Dominicano Juan Luis Guerra produjo el álbum Bachata Rosa, alcanzando récords de ventas en el país y en el ámbito internacional. Este álbum contribuyó a explotar el ritmo a nivel mundial. La bachata ahora goza de popularidad en plazas como Alemania, España, Holanda, México, Estados Unidos, y muchos más países.

José Manuel Calderón es considerado por muchos como el fundador o papa de los bachateros de una época, porque fue el primero y también el más popular en su tiempo.

La música de Calderón fue popular no solo por sus letras si no también por su voz y por el sentimiento que transmitía en sus canciones. Calderón acumuló muchos éxitos en su carrera tales como "serpiente humana", "luna", "sálvame" y otros más.

En su época también se destaco Rafael Encarnación que con su voz aguda y diferente cautivo a los amantes de este ritmo, pero su carrera fue acortada por su fallecimiento en un accidente de transito, durando más o menos dos años en el medio artístico.

Otro gran exponente que debe ser mencionado es Luis Segura, mejor conocido como "el añoñaito" por su estilo propio al cantar, quien empezó su carrera poco después del fallecimiento de Encarnación en el 1964. Segura es el bachatero que más años ha durado vigente en el medio artístico. Luis Segura, se podría considerar como el bachatero representativo de una época, porque con su éxito "pena por ti" a principio de los años 80 abrió otra página en la historia de este ritmo.

Esa canción aumentó la popularidad de la bachata que estaba en decadencia durante esos años, después de ese hit a la gente ya no le daba vergüenza que lo vieran escuchando bachata como en las décadas pasadas.

La nueva generación de este ritmo cuenta con intérpretes de mucha calidad interpretativa y gran calidad componiendo canciones, tal es el caso de Anthony Santos, Raulin Rodríguez, Teodoro Reyes y Joe Veras, entre otros muchos más artistas de este género.

Además hay que destacar a intérpretes como Frank Reyes, Luis Vargas, Monchy y Alexandra, Zacarías Ferreira, y Alex Bueno.

En los últimos años también ha obtenido un gran éxito a nivel nacional e internacional la agrupación bachatera radicada en Estados Unidos, Aventura.

Clasificación Curricular: 7° Básica 8° Básica Educación Artística

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English: http://yesdance.org/2015/08/the-history-of-bachata/
Español: http://www.educando.edu.do/articulos/docente/origenes-de-la-bachata/

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Bachata is a genre of Latin American music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century with European, Indigenous and African musical elements. The original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness", "bitter music", or "blues music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular. The form of dance, bachata, also developed with the music in these over 50 years.

A bachata band is composed of at least 5 instruments:
Requinto (lead guitar), Segunda (rhythm guitar), bass guitar, bongos and güira; often supported by electric guitar, guitar.

Guitar music has always been a part of the Dominican musical landscape, but the first bachata recognized as such was recorded in 1961 by José Manuel Calderón. The bachata of Calderón and his contemporaries was virtually identical to the bolero of other Latin American countries like Puerto Rico and Ecuador. In fact many of the songs which these bachateros recorded were covers of earlier boleros, and the music was viewed by society at large in the same way that bolero was viewed throughout Latin America - a romantic music popular with lovers and serenaders.

In time, however, bachata began to be associated with another world, that of prostitution, poverty and delincuency. Relegated to the brothel and the barrio, bachata began to tell the stories of that world, the experiences of the lover of a prostitute, the poor country boy who gets to the city and gets ripped off, with slang and sexual double meanings. From about 1970 to about 1990, bachata was thoroughly unique among Latin American musical genres in its free expression of the underground life of a nation. This free expression naturally provoked even more fiercely the contempt of the Dominican mainstream. Ironically, it was the most despised of these cabaret bachateros, Blas Durán, the master of sexual double meanings, whose music marked the end of the bachata isolation when he began to record with an electric guitar in 1987.

After Durán's innovation popularity of bachata began to soar, as Antony Santos and other bachateros used the new style to record more acceptable, romantic songs. The influence of merengue became marked in the rhythm and the guitar lines of the music, and in fact modern bachata was first made popular by the bachateros who played also merengue. Musicians who were popular among Dominican elites, notably Juan Luis Guerra, with his soft and poetic music made the bachata to be accepted by all sectors of society.

The 1980s and 90s saw a wave of emigration from the Dominican Republic to the Unites States. The emigrants carried music with them, establishing bachata in the major cities of Eastern USA, especially in New York.

By the late 1990s, bachata had became hugely popular across Latinos in the US North East, and these new fans in turn brought the music back to their countries of origin. Large record labels took interest, and invested in slick new bachata productions. Monchy y Alexandra scored a big international success in the date 1999 with the release "Hoja en Blanco", which owes some of its popularity to its combining of bachata with vallenato, a style already hugely popular across Latin America.

Meanwhile, young Dominican-Americans formed bachata bands began to incorporate local musical styles, like R&B, into their music: it`s in this moment that the band Aventura with song "Obsesion" in 2002, catapulted bachata to the top of global pop charts, and in France and Italy even reached the first position.

It`s around the 2005 that bachata mixed with tango, giving a new music and dance style, bachatango, and by the time few of sounds is been used frequently in many bachata songs; same people affirm that the song of Grace Jones, " I've seen that face before" readapted version of "libertango" from Astor Piazzolla, is the first version of bachatango, in far 1981.

After years, thanks also to technology and programs to compose music, several remix of famous songs has been released often breaking the idea of bachata as guitar music; by the time bachata has merged with several other music types giving a different flavor, with new sounds and instruments, example:

pop, rap, hip pop, techno, house, reggae, rock...
A not bachata song remixed with bongos playing bachata rhythm doesn`t make it a bachata song but a song possible to dance bachata: the music and the dance evolved indipendent from each other.
The dance in Dominical Rep. was influensed by bolero, cha cha cha, son, and it was possible to see the difference between the dance root of local people.

When the music started to be famous outside from Dominican Rep. it borns a new style of the dance itself with new moves and incorporating several salsa figures, bachata moderna, already presented soft use of waves.
For this reason the bachata is been seen for long time all around the world as the Salsa`s small brother.

In 2008 thanks an advertised video in youtube showing, not impossible moves, but an amazing couple dancing together, the attention to the dance increased exponentially:
at the actual moment the video of Ataka y Alemana dancing on the song Te Extrano, Xtreme, is the most viewed bachata dance video of the history.

By the times, thanks amazing dancers and incredible amazing organizers , the bachata arrived to have own congresses, and dance competition, at the moment Bachatea in Madrid is the biggest congress of bachata ever seen thanks concerts, competitions and a huge numbers of workshop , attracting over 8000 people from all around the world and still increasing.

In latest years is becaming always more famous a type of bachata called Sensual , more involving use of waves and body isolation moves , and not always is danced on bachata songs;
specially in latest years the dancers of bachata evolved and fused the dance with many other one, giving a new life and public attention:

The bachata as dance went out from the schemes and started to be applicate also to other musics; Meanwhile from 2009 "The Real Dominican Style Bachata" is a registered trademartk to pinpoint the misuse and to prove the existence of "the way Dominicans dance bachata" being a dance genre of it's own , due the strong diversity from any new style, specially with sensual bachata that`s not always appreciate from people, who gave also the derogative name "batata" also due the extremely soft music used in the first years.

Some people insist that the bachata dominican is a own type of dance, some people prefer to think there are different styles, meanwhile few zouk dancers tried to fuse bachata with zouk with no real success, eccept few videos in youtube with a good number of viewers also due misleading campaigns from a famous trademark in order to get more attention in their network channels.

For sure in latest years the bachata dance managed to shows to whole world to be interesting, solid and no longer the "small brother" able to adapt and grow, and in this actual moment, the interest on this music and dance is worldwide growing.

Antonino Cusenza . updated in date 25/09/2016.

sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachata_%28music%29
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bachatango
https://www.iasorecords.com/
https://www.Bachatea.net
https://www.domibachata.com/
https://www.bachata.com.do

"Bachata A Social History of a Dominican Popular Music" ,
published by Temple University Press in 1995, written by Deborah Pacini Hernandez.

David Wayne from his years living in the Dominican Republic, interviews conducted with bachata musicians, and work as a guitarist in numerous bachata bands.

Antonio Cusenza from dance experience, travels and studies.

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History : time to know all about bachata!

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Bachata is a genre of Latin American music that originated in the Dominican Republic in the first half of the 20th century with European, Indigenous and African musical elements. The original term used to name the genre was amargue ("bitterness", "bitter music", or "blues music"), until the rather ambiguous (and mood-neutral) term bachata became popular.

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La historia de bachata

http://www.iasorecords.com/es/musica/historia-de-la-bachata

http://www.iasorecords.com/music/history-of-bachata-the-guitar-music-of-the-dominican-republic

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https://www.incognitodance.com/what-is-bachata/

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https://www.incognitodance.com/what-is-bachata/
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http://www.educando.edu.do/articulos/docente/origenes-de-la-bachata/

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Spanish: http://www.educando.edu.do/articulos/docente/origenes-de-la-bachata/
English: https://www.bachatabrno.com/history/

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http://acceso.ku.edu/unidad3/un_paso_mas/bachata.shtml

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The University of Kansas Collaborative Digital Spanish Project (Acceso) is an open-access, digital learning environment designed to promote the acquisition of Spanish and the development of cultural understanding of the varied groups of people who share Spanish as a common language.