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- Jota is a Spanish dance that came to be in the 1700s and is the national folk dance of Aragon, Spain, a landlocked region in northeastern Spain comprising the provinces of Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel.
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The jota (pronounced [ˈxota] [1]) is a genre of music and the associated dance known throughout Spain, most likely originating in Aragon. It varies by region, having a characteristic form in Aragon (where it is the most important [1]), Mallorca, Catalonia, León, Castile, Navarre, Cantabria, Asturias, Galicia, La Rioja, Murcia and Eastern Andalusia.
Mar 3, 2023 · Jota is a Spanish dance that came to be in the 1700s and is the national folk dance of Aragon, Spain, a landlocked region in northeastern Spain comprising the provinces of Huesca, Zaragoza and Teruel. The Basque people also claim it as their national dance.
jota, courtship dance traditional in northern Spain, particularly Aragon; also a genre of folk song that precedes and accompanies the dance or is sung only. The dancing couple hold their arms high and click castanets as they execute lively, bouncing steps to guitar music and singing.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The jarana of Yucatán, danced with whirling scarves, is a Mexican derivative of the jota. The jota is a colorful courtship dance, much like the fandango, traditional in northern Spain, especially in Aragon.
The music is an alternating fast and slow tempo similar to Spanish airs which accompany dances like flamenco, jota, bolero, seguidilla, and fandango. Other examples of Philippine jotas are Jota Manileña from Manila, Jota Caviteña from Cavite and Jota Moncadeña from Tarlac.
If there are similarities in sound and dance style between the Spanish jota aragonesa and the jarana (especially with its three-quarters structure), it’s the natural outcome of the Spanish influence on Mexican culture, and how their elements intertwined over time.
In the last months Juan Antonio Torres and me are creating some videos with a didactic approach and now we wanted to share with you this one, made specially for not Spanish people, that explains, from the basic, the style that is the most popular: jota.
