Salsa

Salsa is one of the Latin American dances, which is in 4 / 4 time danced. The origin of the dance comes from the U.S. and the Caribbean. And, depending on its country of origin can be divided into different dance the salsa types, each country is indeed on the same step sequences but for example to other farming methods. The time when one has learned the salsa dance is crucial for what types of salsa dancing.

For the older dance styles, such as the New York styles are rather less focused on the choreographic shows, like the newer style, the Los Angeles style. This dance style is invented between 1995 - 2000 and also been used, and is characterized mainly by the danced figures show, which makes this dance style very popular dances for competition or for film productions. An important dance film, based on the Salsa dance is based, for example, the American film "Dance with Me" from the year 1998.

In contrast to many other dances the salsa has no real single basic step, but many call a step as the basic step of the dance, which consists of two bars. Follow the step "step, step, step, pause," are the most important feature of the Salsa dance. The fourth point in a bar is always at no dancing salsa, it creates a pause after the third beat, the dancers use the so-called Fußtab, which means they remain in the rhythm of the beat, by foot, without being Put burden.

Another variant is that the third impact is considered long and is also mitgetanzt to four. This is referred to then as a dance sequence "quick, quick, slow".

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