Punta

Punta is a Garifuna music & dance style performed at celebrations and festive occasions. Contemporary punta arose in the last thirty years of the twentieth century in Honduras It also has a following in Belize, Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Southern Mexico and the United States. It is a circle dance in duple rhythm: one couple dances in the middle of the circle a while the other participants sing and clap their hands. Punta uses the call and response patterns in songs. Lyrics may be in Garifuna, Kriol, English or Spanish.