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Dance Lessons

Ever heard of the clave? It's the foundation of salsa, boogaloo, mambo, and more.

It鈥檚 the beat that drives the bugaloo and mambo. Ayana Contreras travels to Cuba to understand the clave.

Plus, we go beneath a motorway flyover in Rio de Janeiro, where US hip-hop from the 1990s gets re-imagined every Saturday night; we meet a 9-year-old boy who is preserving his family鈥檚 Cambodian history through dance; South African superstar Johnny Clegg tells us how he helped form an interracial dance troupe during apartheid; and we remember Johnny Hallyday, 鈥渢he French Elvis Presley鈥.

(Image: Dancers at the weekly Saturday night charme dance in Madureira, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro's North Zone. Credit: Catherine Osborn)

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Mon 11 Dec 2017 06:32GMT

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  • Sat 9 Dec 2017 00:32GMT
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  • Sat 9 Dec 2017 23:32GMT
  • Sun 10 Dec 2017 05:32GMT
  • Sun 10 Dec 2017 11:32GMT
  • Mon 11 Dec 2017 06:32GMT

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