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I’ve seen this a few times and was wondering if anyone can explain how to do it. 1 couple dancing and then suddenly another guy swoops in off the sidelines and starts dancing with her. He seems to intercept her and keep on dancing. I’ve seen it with one girl and several guys and I’m not talking Salsa Rueda where switching partners is part of a move. I’m talking L.A. Style.
I was wondering has anyone done this? How do you do it? Are there rules of ettiqute about who you can do it with or when? Where can I learn to do this properly?
It looks really smooth and cool and the guys and girls always seem to think of it as a bit of fun but I could see how doing this at the wrong time would be dangerous or could lead to some serious confrontations.
I’ve been to several dance schools and looked at several DVDs and can’t find anything that covers this topic.
jovi 12:52 pm on October 3, 2009Permalink |
do you mean something like this?
http://social.addicted2salsa.com/steve/salsa-congress-question/#comment-1631
Marco 6:04 pm on October 3, 2009Permalink |
Man, I love watching that vid.
Usually the chain dancing isn’t done unless everyone agrees ahead of time. I wouldn’t want to try it otherwise.
taserswitch 3:18 am on October 4, 2009Permalink |
The first video is exactly what I mean. I have seen it done for birthdays too but it’s usually a little bit more organised than that. Notice how in the first video one all the cut-ins are much sharper. Like the guys seem to come from no-where and suddenly “steal the girl” from the other guy rather than the other guy backing off.
I agree that they must all know each other and be friends. So that leads me to the question, how do people do it once they are happy to do it?
Is the next guy actually “stealing” the girl in a friendly manner when he gets a chance or is it an illusion where the first guy will signal to the next guy he can take her but doesn’t back off?
If anyone has done this I’d really like to know how it’s done because it looks like a lot of fun and is an almost comical competition like one might expect to see on a stage show because it seems to catch people off guard.
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jovi 10:08 am on October 6, 2009Permalink |
I don’t know. I’ve never tried, just remembered the earlier discusion.
Antoine A. 4:04 am on November 14, 2009Permalink |
Yeah, no particular rules other than knowing the other guy and ideally the girl. You can steal a girl in many different ways, often stepping right in the middle of the couple when they break on1, or simply by coming behind the girl and pulling her back on 1 (if your dancing on1, otherwise on 6 if you’re dancing on2). Thousands of other ways.
You can do it without any signal from the guy, or sometimes your buddy will look at you and make it easy to switch. We always do that in the club when it’s a girls birthday. She’s in the middle of the floor, all guys form a circle around her, and she gets constantly “stolen”.