Contradanza

Timeline events

• Saint-Domingue refugees bring contradanza and tumba francesa (1800)
• Contradanza cubana - San Pascual Bailon (1803)
• El Abufar – Contradanza cubana (1830)
• Teatro Tacón and creolized contradanza (1834)
• Saumell’s contradanzas invent Cubanness (1850)
• Cervantes writes his Cuban danzas (1875)
• Bebo Valdés con David Trueba en TVE (2013)