Carabinier (dance)
The Carabinier 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 dance.Origins
Just after the Revolution of 1804, European figure dances, accompanied by Kongo influences, hybridized into a couples dance named after the Carabiniers rifle regiments in the Haitian army.
