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Quebradita

A quebradita (Spanish: "Little break", referring to the breaking of a wild horse and a female dancer's back bends) is a Mexican-American dancing style. It is usually performed to a modified form of Sinaloan banda music, and often the word "quebradita" can also refer to the music style.

In the quebradita there is a male dancer and a female dancer. The male dancer lowers the female dancer backwards almost to the point where she touches the floor. Then the male dancer quickly pulls her up. This is what the "little break" refers to. Compared to the brinquito or caballito dance styles, which use athletic, trotting steps, quebraditas emphasize acrobatics. The musical instruments from popular quebradita groups are electric guitars and instruments with synthesizers.

The quebradita was very popular in the 1990s, especially in the Los Angeles metropolitan area. George Lipsitz, author of Footsteps in the Dark: The Hidden Histories of Popular Music, wrote that in that era many dancers were unwilling or unable to do this dance because of the required strength, timing, coordination, and cooperation, and therefore the possible dangers from this dance.