The zamba is a dance or dance, practiced in the northeast of Argentina, but the music and song of this dance is also called zamba. This dance was proposed as a national dance of that country, in addition to Argentina it is also practiced in southern Bolivia. The zamba has its origin in Peru, which comes from the zamacueca, and it was until around 1815 that it was known in Argentina, although this dance is also called "zamacueca", it is more common to refer to it as zamba, a name derived from term that was attributed to the mestizo descendants of Indian and black or vice versa. Other sources state that the zamacueca entered Argentina through the province of Mendoza in 1825, and then spread to the northwest of it.
It is a couple's dance, in which different gestures and mimics are performed, where the man lovingly and flirtatiously attacks the woman with an accessory handkerchief and the woman shuns this reply until the end; It is one of the most passionate Argentine dances.
Their choreography is, with an initial position, in which they must stand firm, facing each other and with a handkerchief in the right hand, where the man has his left hand lowered and the woman rests hers on her waist or takes her skirt with her. Here the man holds the handkerchief by one end, the woman in the middle. This dance or dance is divided into two parts; where the first part of the dance is composed of three main choreographic elements that are the entire turn, the half turn and the arrest or celebration; and so on, followed by several measures until the end of the first part, and then the second part is the same as the first, but the participants are placed in opposite places; in this stage the woman ends up accepting the man's sieges. At the end the knight crowns the lady by placing his extended handkerchief taken with both hands, behind the lady's head.
