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Salsa Cubana Styling - Havana, Cuba
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Clip of the Boogalu Productions DVD "Mueve La Cintura".For complete info go to the website above.
The "Mueve La Cintura" (Move Your Hips) DVD focuses on Cuban Salsa dance styling as well as other Cuban dance forms that have been the inspiration and foundation for all the different Salsa styles danced throughout the World.
Part One - Dance Couples with Live Band
Features seven remarkable Cuban dance couples (professional and amateur) who dance together as a group, and who also dance as individual couples demonstrating their personal styles, at slow and fast dance tempos.
Part Two - The Roots of Salsa Cubana
Isaias Rojas, Director of the dance company "Ban Ra Ra" demonstrates and explains the most popular Cuban dance forms in Cuba, and also demonstrates how these older dance styles have influenced Salsa.
~ Rumba Demonstration and Rumba Influences in Salsa Cubana
~ Danzon Demonstration and Danzon Influences in Salsa Cubana
~ Son Demonstration and Son Influences in Salsa Cubana
~ Cha Cha Cha Demonstration
~ Mambo Demonstration and Mambo Influences in Salsa Cubana
Part Three - Salsa Cubana Basics
(very brief)
Isaias demonstrates and explains the basic steps, turns, transitions, hand placement, and dancing to the clave or the melody.
Part Four - Exercises
Isaias leads a series of exercises that help to loosen the body, giving that mobility for moving in the Cuban style - mueve la cintura !
in Spanish with English subtitles
