WESTERN PACIFIC OCEAN REGION

The Quadrille

  Hailing from Scotland, where the former was called "Country-Dance" or Dance Aldeana Rustica. From there he went to England where he was enriched by influences courtesans and acquired a complete and spectacular choreography, at times resembling the classic "Gang". The song, born of very rhythmic valseado completely disappeared upon reaching our lands. In Choco, Antioquia and the West will be printed a syncopated melody, more in tune with the tastes of the mulatto and black, being played exclusively for dancing.

Currulao

Currulao made his entrance Cartagena in the seventeenth century, where it is mentioned as "Slave Dance", a definition which lasted long.
However today Currulao is tune and exclusive dance of the Colombian Pacific coast to the point of being the tune base or typical dance of the area today, ie, all the Chocó and the western half of the departments of Valle, Cauca and Nariño. All these regions are the influence of early life that make cores black population.