{"id":130198,"date":"2019-08-20T11:50:34","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.do\/?p=130198"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:56:58","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T11:56:58","slug":"350-couples-to-dance-merengue-in-guinness-record-seeking-reality-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/350-couples-to-dance-merengue-in-guinness-record-seeking-reality-show\/","title":{"rendered":"350 couples to dance merengue in Guinness Record-seeking reality show"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.do\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Guinness-world-record.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-130203\" width=\"616\" height=\"145\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Guinness-world-record.jpg 464w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/Guinness-world-record-300x70.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 616px) 100vw, 616px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Show producers Alberto Zayas and Valent\u00edn B\u00e1ez are undertaking the reality show this coming 26 November 2019 (National Merengue Day) on Telesistema Channel 11. They plan to bring home to the Dominican Republic the Guinness Record for Most Persons Dancing Merengue at the same time. The record is held by Russian dancers that set the record for \u201cThe biggest merengue dance\u201d in 2013 with 330 couples costumed and dancing merengue in synchronicity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The plan is to synchronize 350 couples dancing merengue non-stop in the Colonial City for the \u201cUn record pa\u2019l merengue\u201d production. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Zayas says the reality will start with auditions in leading Dominican cities, their dance schools, to get the people involved and turn the show into a country branding event. <br>\nA theme is being created for the event by Antonio Gonz\u00e1lez. They hope that it will become part of Dominican culture in the way iconic merengues such as \u201cCompadre Pedro Juan\u201d is. The song will last for four or five minutes but during that time, the challenge is to synchronize the dancers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diariolibre.com\/revista\/cultura\/rd-buscara-el-guinness-con-700-personas-bailando-merengue-HJ13291996\">Diario Libre<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>20 August 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Show producers Alberto Zayas and Valent\u00edn B\u00e1ez are undertaking the reality show this coming 26 November 2019 (National Merengue Day) on Telesistema Channel 11. They plan to bring home to the Dominican Republic the Guinness Record for Most Persons Dancing Merengue at the same time. The record is held by Russian dancers that set the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2019\/08\/20\/350-couples-to-dance-merengue-in-guinness-record-seeking-reality-show\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[155,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=130198"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130209,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130198\/revisions\/130209"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}