Tags: Genre, Music Genre, Topical Concept.
Danza is a musical genre that originated in Ponce a city in southern Puerto Rico. It is a popular turn-of-the-twentieth-century ballroom dance genre slightly similar to the waltz. Both the danza and its cousin the contradanza are sequence dances performed to a pattern usually of squares to music that was instrumental. Neither the contradanza nor the danza were sung genres; this is a contrast to for example the habanera which was a sung genre.