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Bolero (disambiguation)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ223861 ↗
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Bolero is a Cuban genre of song developed in the late 19th century.

Bolero may also refer to:

Music and dance

Bolero (Spanish dance), a 34 dance that originated in Spain in the late 18th century

Boléro (Chopin), an 1834 piano work

Boléro, a 1928 orchestral work by Maurice Ravel, commissioned by the dancer Ida Rubinstein, on which various performances have been based, including:

Boléro, choreographed by Bronislava Nijinska, principal dancer Ida Rubinstein, premiered at Paris Opéra, 1928

Boléro, choreographed by Maurice Béjart, Ballet of the 20th Century (La Monnaie, 1961)

Albums

Bolero (Haustor album), 1985

Boléro (Larry Coryell album), 1981

Bolero (Mr.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bolero (disambiguation)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.