Macarena

=== Dance ===

=== Dance ===

According to Los del Rio, the dance originated from the interaction between the band and the audience at concerts. It started with some improvised arm movements from the singers during an instrumental part of the song. Some people in the audience then began to imitate similar dance moves. In the interplay between the band and the audience, an early form of Macarena dance gradually emerged over the course of several concerts because stories about the Macarena dance spread among the band's fans by word of mouth.{{Cite web |last=Alice |first=Matthew |title=Macarena — its origin, its song, its saint {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1996/dec/19/straight-macarena-origin-song-saint/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en |quote=One of the Los Del Rio guys (the composers of the original 'Macarena' in 1992) says that he invented the dance one night during a concert. He says he was just fooling around during the music bridge onstage and started doing it, and then people in the audience started doing it, and they told a friend, and they told a friend, and so on and so on and so on.}}

According to Los del Rio, the dance originated from the interaction between the band and the audience at concerts. It started with some improvised arm movements from the singers during an instrumental part of the song. Some people in the audience then began to imitate similar dance moves. In the interplay between the band and the audience, an early form of Macarena dance gradually emerged over the course of several concerts because stories about the Macarena dance spread among the band's fans by word of mouth.{{Cite web |last=Alice |first=Matthew |title=Macarena — its origin, its song, its saint {{!}} San Diego Reader |url=https://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/1996/dec/19/straight-macarena-origin-song-saint/ |access-date=2024-04-18 |website=San Diego Reader |language=en |quote=One of the Los Del Rio guys (the composers of the original 'Macarena' in 1992) says that he invented the dance one night during a concert. He says he was just fooling around during the music bridge onstage and started doing it, and then people in the audience started doing it, and they told a friend, and they told a friend, and so on and so on and so on.}}

In May 1996, during a senior trip to Cancún, Quintana Roo, Mexico, American traveler Hank Jones is said to have encountered the “Macarena” before its full popular explosion in the United States. According to Jones’s later account, he was pulled from a bar onto a stage by a local dancer, instructed in the dance, and briefly became one of the earliest known Americans to perform the Macarena in a public setting. Although the song’s Bayside Boys remix would not reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 until later that year, Jones’s alleged early participation places him nearly a full year ahead of the American public in recognizing the cultural force that would soon become one of the defining dance crazes of the 1990s.

=== Music video ===

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