Which dance form of Alex Magno originated in the mid-1970s in NY?
Salsa
Alex Magno (choreographer)
Alexandre (Alex-Andre) Magno is a Brazilian born choreographer and director.
 His dance styles include hip-hop, jazz, ballet, samba, flamenco, tango, salsa, and martial arts.
 He has performed with Madonna, Yanni, Britney Spears, the Lido La Tourné, Ballet Hispanico, the Ringling Brothers Circus, and the Academy Awards.
 He also works with his own dance company, “Personna Dance Theatre".
Salsa (dance)
Salsa is a popular form of social dance that originated in the Caribbean.
 The movements of salsa have origins in Cuban Son, cha-cha-cha, mambo and Puerto Rican bomba and plena and other dance forms.
 The dance, along with the salsa music, originated in the mid-1970s in New York.
Dhamail
Dhamail, variant of Dhamal, is a form of folk music and dance originated in Sylhet, Bangladesh.
 It is practiced in the erstwhile district of Sylhet in Bangladesh and in areas influenced by the Sylheti culture such as Cachar, parts of Shillong, Karimganj and Hailakandi Districts of Assam, parts of Tripura in India.
 It accompanies the use of mirdanga, kartals and many other musical instruments which are usually played by the males while the dance is being performed.
 This dance form is similar to musical chairs, where one by one the dancers are removed by the dancers who can dance very fast as the beats gear up the speed.
 This dance form mainly relates the love of Radha and Krishna and the inner significance of this dance form is that the newly wedded couple must unite their souls in such fashion. Kalanidhi Narayanan
Kalanidhi Narayanan (December 7, 1928 – February 21, 2016) was an Indian dancer and teacher of Indian classical dance form of Bharatnatyam, who was the early non-devadasi girl to learn the dance form and perform it on stage in the 1930s and 1940s.
 After a brief career in the 1940s, she returned to dance in 1973 and became a notable teacher of "abhinaya". La tecnica cubana
"La técnica cubana", often abbreviated as "técnica", is a form of Cuban contemporary dance that was founded by Ramiro Guerra Suarez in Cuba in 1959.
 Unlike other forms of traditional Cuban dance, "técnica" fuses many different dance forms together, such as those from Africa, Europe, and North America.
 It is a highly expressive and robust dance form, incorporating many quick jumps and undulating movements of the torso and pelvis.
 "Técnica" blends a high amount of movement and expression with a degree of synchronization, producing an athletic, theatrical dance form. Alex Magno (political scientist)
Alexander R. Magno, popularly known as Professor Alex Magno, is a political scientist and academician in the Philippines. Maguni Charan Das
Maguni Charan Das was an Indian traditional dancer, known as one of the masters of Gotipua, a traditional dance form of Odisha.
 He was the founder of "Dasabhuja Gotipua Odishi Nrutya Praishad", a school for Gotipua dance where the art form is taught in the traditional Gurukul way.
 Born in Raghurajpur, in Puri district of the Indian state of Odisha, he is known to have contributed to the revival of Gotipua tradition, which is widely considered as the precursor of the classical dance form of Odissi.
 His style of performance is known as the "Raghurajpur Gharana" of Gotipua and his school provides training in the dance discipline, while taking care of the academic education of the students.
 He was a recipient of Odisha Sangeet Natak Akademi Award and Tulsi Award.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2004, for his contributions to Gotipua dance. Neotango
Neotango is a distinct genre of Tango which goes beyond it both in music and in dance.
 The music is a container of tracks from all over the World, instrumental or vocal, clearly distinct from the tango that preceded it because it includes only modern music, everything which was recorded in the last 30/40 years and which can be danced using the tango biomechanics.
 As a dance form it is currently evolving.
 It is the 'living' globalized tango dance form of the 21st Century. K. N. Dandayudhapani Pillai
K. Natesa Dandayudhapani Pillai was an Indian classical dancer and choreographer, considered by many as one of the leading exponents of the classical dance form of Bharatanatyam.
 Born on 14 July 1921 in Karaikal, in the Indian union territory of Puducherry to A. K. Natesa Pillai, a known musician, he started training initially in music under his father, but later turned to Bharatanatyam and learned under his grand father, who was a teacher of the dance form.
 Subsequently, he joined Kalakshetra of Rukmini Devi Arundale as a teacher where he taught for a number of years.
 He was known to have authored several compositions for Bharatanatyam and trained many students; Sri Vidya, J. Jayalalithaa, Hema Rajagopalan, Suganthi Sadayane, Nayana Shenoy, Adyar K. Lakshman, Uma Muralikrishna, Vijayalakshmi Shetty-Ahuja, Jayalakshmi Alva and Geeta Chandran are some of the notable ones among them.
 He was the dance choreographer of a number of films in Telugu, Tamil and Hindi such as "Raja Guruvu", Man-Mauji, Chhaya, Hum Panchhi Ek Daal Ke, Sri Kalahastiswara Mahatyam and Bhai-Bhai.
 He also founded Sri Rama Nataka Niketan, a dance academy in Chennai in 1967.
 The Government of India awarded him the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 1971, for his contributions to Dance.
 His wife, Chandra Dandayudhapani Pillai, is a known Bharatanatyam exponent and teacher and his younger brother, Dakshinamoorthy Pillai who died in 2005, was also a noted Bharatanatyam teacher. Kanaka Srinivasan
Kanaka Srinivasan is an Indian classical dancer and one of the leading exponents of the classical dance form of Bharat Natyam.
 She is a disciple of Vazhuvoor B. Ramaiyah Pillai and is aligned with Vazhuvur tradition of the dance form.
 She is a recipient of the Sangeet Natak Akademi Award of 1998.
 The Government of India awarded her the fourth highest civilian honour of the Padma Shri, in 2006, for her contributions to Indian classical dance.