Lessons salsa

To date, there are four recognized salsa dance style: Cuban salsa - kasino (casino), los andzhelessky style, New York style and the so-called “fristayl.” The mansion is rueda - way to dance kasino “collectively”. About what kind of salsa, there are many versions. But at least one they all agree: the father of Cuban salsa should be considered a dream - the rhythm created by the end of the XIX century in Cuba.
There are several versions of origin of the name “salsa”. Is well known that salsa means “sauce”. According to one version, a small club in Miami stood one evening Force, Cuban music, and this music is so “brought” the people present, that all take together to shout: “Salsa! Salsa!”, Implying that music was just acute and hot as the sauce, which pripravlyali dishes in this institution.

According to another version, the title came from a very popular at the beginning of the century sleep “Echale Salsita”. According to this version, at the end of 60 - x in the USA in Madison Square Garden held a grand concert, organized by Fania All Stars, in which Latin American artists presented their “new invention” - the rhythm boogaloo - nothing like modernized Cuban sleep, mixed with merengue, bossa nova, kumbey, cha-cha-cha, mambo and bugi-woogie. Looking how people from different ends of America selflessly under a new dance rhythm, Tito Puente, remembering the words of an old dream, izrek: “Esto es una gran salsa!”, Which literally translates as “Magnificent sauce.” The great sonero implied that as in the sauce, mixed into the rhythm of the various ingredients, born unusually “tasty” mixture.

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