MAXIXE

Maxixe

The maxixe, occasionally known as the Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music, that originated in the Brazilian city of Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the tango was developing in neighbouring Argentina and Uruguay. It is a dance developed from Afro-Brazilian dances and from European dances .

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maxixe

Noun

  1. A Brazilian dance in a rapid 2/4 time, influenced by the tango and polka.


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