The
maxixe , occasionally known as the
Brazilian tango, is a dance, with its accompanying music (often played as a subgenre of
choro), that originated in the
Brazilian city of
Rio de Janeiro in 1868, at about the same time as the
tango was developing in neighbouring
Argentina and
Uruguay. It is a dance developed from
Afro-Brazilian dances (mainly the
lundu) and from European dances (mainly the
polka).