Pasodoble is a typical dance from
Spain march-like musical style as well as the
corresponding dance style danced by a couple. It is the type of music typically
played in bullfights during the
bullfighters' entrance to the ring (paseo) or during the passes (faena)
just before the kill. It corresponds to the Pasodoble dance (traditional and ballroom).It’s is a
lively style of dance to the duple
meter march - like
pasodoble music. It is modeled after the sound, drama, and movement of the Spanish and Portuguese bullfight. Famous
bullfighters have been honored with pasodoble tunes named after them. Other
tunes have been inspired by patriotic motifs or local characters.
Paso Doble, like Samba, is a progressive International Latin dance. The Paso
Doble is the Latin dance most resembling the International Standard style, in that
forward steps are taken with the heel lead, the frame is wider and
more strictly kept up, and there is significantly different and less hip movement.
A significant
number of Paso Doble songs are variants of España Cañi.
The song has breaks in fixed positions in the song (two breaks at syllabus level, three breaks and a longer song at Open
levels). Traditionally Paso Doble routines are choreographed to match these
breaks, as well as the musical phrases. Accordingly, most other ballroom Paso Doble tunes are
written with similar breaks.
Because of its
inherently choreographed tradition, ballroom Paso Doble for the most part is
danced only competitively, almost never socially — or at least not without
sticking to some sort of previously learned routine. This said, in Spain, France, Vietnam, Colombia, Costa Rica and some parts
of Germany to the west of
the river Rhine, it is danced socially as a lead (not choreographed) dance.
In Venezuela, Paso Doble is a must in almost every wedding or big party,
being especially famous the song Guitarra Española by Los Melódicos.
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