Carabinier (dance)

carabinier
Native nameKarabinye
Etymologynamed after french rifle regiment
GenreHaitian Folk Dance
OriginHaiti
Related danceskontradans, Kongo rite dances, Twoubadou

The carabinier (Haitian Creole: Karabinye, English: carabineer) is a traditional cultural dance from Haiti that originated back to the time of the Haitian Revolution deriving from a section of the kontradans that is said to have evolved into the méringue or mereng (Haitian Creole) dance.

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