Cachucha
Cachucha is a Spanish solo dance in Template:Music or Template:Music time, similar to the bolero. Cachucha is danced to an Andalusian national song with castanet accompaniment.
Etymology
From Spanish Script error: No such module "Lang"., small boat. Possibly from diminutive of Script error: No such module "Lang"., shard, saucepan, probably from vulgar Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"., alteration of Latin Script error: No such module "Lang"., pot, from Greek Template:Transliteration, a small container.
History
The Cachucha was created in Cuba though it is now considered a Spanish dance. Fanny Elssler (1810-1884, Vienna) popularized this dance when she introduced it to the public in the ballet from Rossini's opera La donna del lago in 1830s London, and cemented its fame in Jean Coralli's ballet Le Diable boiteux (1836, Vienna).
Gilbert and Sullivan set the dance for the entire company in Act 2 of the Savoy Opera The Gondoliers as the chorus sings Dance a Cachucha.