He started studying drumming and zapateo at age 4 and performing folkloric dances like the malambo at 11 — a background shared, he said, by most “Che Malambo” dancers, all of whom are Argentine.

He found himself captivated by the drumming and the percussive footwork, or zapateo.

We moved to one side of the room for diagonals, or traveling steps with zapateo, footwork and turns.

Además del tour gastronómico, los asistentes se deleitaron con espectáculos folclóricos peruanos como la marinera norteña y la danza de tijeras, un impresionante baile andino caracterizado por el zapateo y elasticidad de sus bailarines.

At the end of the season he is allowed half a benefit, on which occasion only he delights his numerous patrons by enacting the fore-paws in a dancing donkey, to the tune of the Zapateo, a popular negro double-shuffle.