A couple consisting of a Japanese dancer and a Cuban dancer became a trend on TikTok on Sunday after posting a video of their wedding, where they interrupted the traditional waltz to break into a dance performance in front of all their guests.
The clip, posted by the account @monkeys_1122, features the couple starting with a waltz choreography that suddenly transitions into a Cuban dance sequence set to the rhythm of "Tienes (Remix)", a song by Ya Ice Dilan, Rey Tony, and Helabusador.
Both are professional ballet dancers residing in Canada: she is Japanese, and he is Marcel Gutiérrez, a Cuban known on social media as "Marcel Bafff," currently a soloist at Les Grands Ballets Canadiens de Montreal.
In the video description, the couple acknowledged that the moment had its challenges: "We had to do it! Even though it was a challenge because the floor was very slippery and we didn't know it, we enjoyed it a lot!!! I hope you do too."
Gutiérrez trained at the National School of Ballet of Cuba since 2010 and joined the National Ballet of Cuba in 2019, where he was promoted to soloist in 2021. In 2023, he joined the Canadian company, where he rose to soloist in 2025.
This is not the first time this couple has merged both cultures on social media. In April 2026, they shared a video dancing reparto to the same song in a ballet studio —with mirrors and a barre in the background— which also went viral and was covered by Cuban media under the headline "Cuban gets Japanese girl to dance reparto and this was the result." Previously, the account had already posted "Repartiendo en kimono," which garnered over 25,000 likes.
The wedding video fits within a broader trend that gained momentum on TikTok during 2025 and 2026: the so-called "repair weddings," where Cuban couples both on and off the island incorporate distribution into their wedding ceremonies. Several similar cases have been the focus of repair weddings in Cuba and in the diaspora.
Reparto is an urban genre that originated in the popular neighborhoods of Havana in the late 2000s, blending reggaeton with timba and rumba. Since 2021, it has gained international exposure, largely propelled by TikTok, where videos of Cubans dancing to reparto in unexpected contexts regularly go viral.
"Tienes (Remix)," the song featured in the wedding video, was released on November 19, 2025, and reached number one on the LaGENTEdice and TenerEnCuenta charts, becoming one of the most frequently used tracks in viral fusion videos over the past year.
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