Conga (dance)
The conga is a fashion dance of the 1930s and 40s.
It was developed from the audience's “Desarrollar” at a traditional Cuban conga and introduced by Eliseo Grenet and Julio Cueva's band in Paris in 1934 and in New York in 1936 , but only became popular when Desi Arnaz made him conduct a Xavier Cugat orchestra played in Miami .
In 1940 the conga first appeared in a musical film , Strike Up the Band with Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland with a sophisticated polonaise-like choreography. Many Hollywood films of the next few years contained the simplified version of a conga line , which can still be experienced at American parties , in which the dancers hold each other by the shoulders or hips in single file and after three steps on the beat their leg to the side (and one Notation as two 2/4 or one 4/4 time a sixteenth before the fourth beat).