tumba francesa slave dance in Cuba

This is a dance form created by slaves in Haiti copying the 18th century menuets and dances they saw their masters doing since around 1750. Their masters were the French slave owners chased out of Haiti when Toussaint l'Ouverture overthrew their colonial masters. The French came to Cuba with their slaves. They dress in simple copies of the dress of the time and the music is strictly drums. The leader of this group is a direct descendant of the original slaves. We saw a group of only a dozen, as the full complement of a further 12 didn't show up. There was even a dance with a maypole.

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Music

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• slave
• folk
• dance
• cuba

[josek503]

Ese niño el chiquito es mi hijo Kevin estoy super felix de verlo, estoy hasta llorando por dios Ya que vivo aqui en Francia, y yo era el primer bailarin de ese grupo, a dios mire a mi hijito lindo.... lo extraño con la vida.....besosss para el y el grupo...

[ani1616]

Africa still lives in blacks man from all around the world

[jaalexis2002]

Merci pour le partage.

[luichiaka47]

esta bello, cada vez mas me enorgullesco de ser carribe~oooo .........y siento cada vez mas cerca nuestras similitudes entre estas tres tierras que son las antilas

[gicaelpu]

@josek503 SALUDOS DEL TERCO DE MUNDO CUBANO...SALUDOS HASTA FRANCIA MI HERMANO

[vanchi233]

tumba francesa is a cousin to bomba... there are similar and even identical melodies, rhythm names , etc but then again the same similarities are found in gwoka, bele, kaseko , the big drum of carricou among others. Bomba is on its own a unique genre like tumba and all the others mentioned. They all share a common root, but bomba did not come from tumba francesa.

[lowfat80]

for the boricuas no u see where the bomba comes from haiti tumba francesa

[MissIsibella]

lovely

[gina123123]

oye yo soy cubana

[QbanLo405]

Brilliant! I love it!