The Macarena dancing videos and lessons

The song titled La Macarena was originally released as a Rumba by Los del Rio, a lounge act from Seville, Spain, who wrote it while traveling in South America. However, it didn’t gain widespread popularity until it was re-released in 1996 after being remixed by the Bayside Boys with English lyrics added. In the summer of 1996, the song spent 14 weeks on the U.S Billboards Hot 100 singles chart, one of the longest runs on the top of the chart for a song.

The song tells of a woman named Macarena whose boyfriend is drafted into the Spanish Army. To celebrate she hooks up with two of his male friends, spends summers in Marbella, Spain, and eventually moves to New York City, and gets a new boyfriend.

The song is very upbeat and has a fast paced, distinctive dance associated with it, which was created by flamenco dancer Diana Patricia Cubillán Herrera. The dance is usually performed during the chorus of the song. The dance is a type of Latin line dance, as large groups perform it at once. To perform the dance, the performer does the following:

• One places his arms forward, palm down, left arm, then right arm.
• The dancer turns his arms over so that his palms are up, left, then right.
• The dancer puts his hands on his shoulders, first left hand on right shoulder, then right on left.
• The dancer puts his hands on the back of his head, again left, then right.
• The dancer places his arms on his hips, left hand on right hip, then right on left.
• Then the dancer's hands go on their respective hips or rear end, left then right
• The routine finishes with a pelvic rotation in time with the lyric "Ehhhh Macarena!"
• Finally, the dancer turns 90 degrees counter clockwise and repeats the same motions throughout the whole song. (An alternative version uses a pelvic thrust series instead of the pelvic rotation, as in the music video.)