1. Puerto Rico Dance Merengue, Bomba, plena, cha-cha
 by: Liliana, Jared and Loidali

2. ORIGEN:
Puerto Rico has a rich culture whose origin is based in native Taino, Spanish and West African roots.
European explorers.                 
Borrowed from Spanish, African, and other European cultures, creating Puerto Rico's signature style of Latin dance.

3. Specific Dances: group
MERENGUE 

4. Specific Dances: group
Bomba

5. Specific Dances: couples
 Plena

6. Specific Dances: couples
Cha-cha

7. Movements:
Bomba 
Merengue 

8. Movements:
Cha- Cha 
Plena

9. Dance space: What is a Vejigante?
Vejigante's costume is made from scraps of fabric and looks like a clown suit with a cape and bat wings under the arms. Present day Vejigante revelers often use plastic or balloons in place of the original cow bladder.

10. Vejigante Mask made out of coconut

11. Dance space:
CONGA
The traditional dance space is between January through march, this is an special tradition since 1950, the main celebration is the party of San Sebastian, this event would last for four days, and the purpose of this celebration is to honor saint Sebastian.   
Bongo

12. Puerto Rico’s Musical Instruments
Guiro
Maracas
The Tiple (Treble) same as a Cuatro

13. Discrimination / stereotypes :
Lazy
Racist
Flirtatious
Loud and Happy

14. Evolution:
By the 1920s, sugar had become Puerto Rico’s major export, a cash crop that brought wealth to the island and led to much-needed improvements in the island, like schools, roads, and housing to accommodate a new wealthy social class. 

15. Contribution to American culture:
Historically Puerto Ricans have had a good work ethic; besides entering politics, they served in all the nation's wars including distinguished performance in Korea. While enclaves of Puerto Ricans still exist in cities, overall they learn English, are employed and desire to become assimilated "Americans"

16. Acculturated:
The relationship between acculturation and depression in a sample of 1,510 Puerto Ricans residing in the U.S. was examined. Acculturation was measured by assessing subjects' spoken, preferred, read, and written language. Depression was evaluated by the Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale. The scale yielded a three-factor structure for depression that included depressive affect somatic, interpersonal, and positive affect dimensions. Low acculturation was associated with low positive affect. Higher acculturated men reported high levels of depressive affect/somatic symptoms. No curvilinear relationships were found. Implications of these findings for working with culturally diverse clients are discussed.

17. Lost in the process: Our Tainos Heritage.
 Taino traditions survived, handed down from mother to child and are a permanent part of our island's heritage, our vocabulary, music, customs, culture, beliefs and the nature of our people. There's a "resurgence" on the Island and on the Mainland -- Taino descendants are "waking up" to a calling to reconnect to their heritage -- and it grows stronger every day. 

18. Dominions and Responds:
Puerto Ricans have their own constitution and elect their own bicameral legislature and governor but are subject to U.S executive authority. The island is represented in the U.S House of Representatives by a resident commissioner, which for many years was a nonvoting position. After the 1992 U.S. presidential election, however, the Puerto Rican delegate was granted the right to vote on the House floor. Because of the Puerto Rico's commonwealth status, Puerto Ricans are born as natural American citizens.

19. Social, Economic and politic
Puerto Rico began to produce cattle, sugar cane, coffee and tobacco, which led to the importation of slaves from Africa. As a result, Puerto Rican bloodlines and culture evolved through a mixing of the Spanish, African, and indigenous Taíno and Carib Indian races that shared the island. Today, many Puerto Rican towns retain their Taíno names, such as Utuado, Mayagüez and Caguas.

20. Reflection:
I have tried to show that the evolution of music and dance forms in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean is intimately tied to the history of slavery, colonialism, and contemporary migrations. As Fraser-Delgado and Muñoz (1997: 17) have said, "The diasporic dancing body becomes the vehicle for the articulation of culture under siege. Dance literally re-members cultural practices repressed over centuries of conflict." 
Afro-Puerto Rican musical and danced traditions with their interplay of form and freedom thus remain a current practice linked to a meaningful past but also a promise. 

21. Worksites: http://caribya.com/puerto.rico/culture/dance/
Americans.html#ixzz4RuHGUFrt
"CARIBBEAN BUSINESS, Puertorico WOW.Com To Receive Major Awards From Overseas Press Club." Caribbean Business  (2001): 30. Small Business Reference Center. Web. 6 Dec