Maurice Ravel: Boléro

Remarks:

The song and the ballet were first performed in 1928 at the Paris Opera. It is probably one of the best known songs of the 1900s, somewhere up there with “Wannabe” (1996) by the Spice Girls. There are different versions on YouTube, even a 1934 Hollywood version with Carole Lombard and George Raft. This one by Spain’s Ballet Nacional Danza is my favourite.

See also:

• songs
• Spice Girls: Wannabe – also recognizable
• Tulipa Ruiz: Só Sei Dançar Com Você – also about dancing and love
• Josephine Baker: Haiti – also French