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Mambo Style Salsa Dance Moves

46In this episode of Addicted2Salsa Dance Lesson show, we travel a bit to the East Coast in order to show you a very common and popular move to do at the salsa dance nightclub. The first move, which I call the “Cyclone Bounce” for no apparent reason, can be seen in many salsa dance congress on the East Coast. The second dance move is really taking most of the concepts from the The Windmill Combo salsa dance episode and putting a different spin on it. In the end, Julie will have a special section to showcase ladies’ styling for the follows. Credit goes to David Stein for the inspiration for these moves.

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Published 2 years, 9 months ago in podcast. 9 Comments Tags: , , , .

Sakara Dance Company in San Diego : First Impressions

San Diego is a young salsa city. It is not as mature as San Francisco, Los Angeles or (even close) New York in terms of the salsa community. However, a lot of progress has been made over this last year. We have had Junior and Emily, Mambo2Salsa by Angel and Tulane, and Serena Cuevas’ team (yet to be nicknamed and announced) begin to grow in San Diego.Today, a new dance team as come to San Diego: Sakara (www.sakara.us). The uniqueness of this dance team is the incorporation of enormous amounts of isolated body motions in their routine and style – which is a refresher to having to do zillion of patterns. Their tag-line: ‘fluidity of movement’. It is a breath of fresh air. .. Continue reading ‘Sakara Dance Company in San Diego : First Impressions’

Published 3 years, 10 months ago in reviews and Salsa News. 8 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

How to Dance Advanced Salsa Turn Patterns

Complex Salsa Dancing MovesWell, after getting great feedback from all of you, here it is – a more complicated salsa pattern. It is a very long pattern, so take it in strides and small bites. We have named the individual moves to help you piece the entire salsa combination together. Now, because it is Valentine’s Day (soon) – you can have something to practice with that special someone :-) .Enjoy and if you have questions, please ask it at our forums http://addicted2salsa.com/facebook/ !

The song used in the episode is “Philadelphia Mambo” by Los Gatos (originally by Tito Puente)

Published 3 years, 11 months ago in podcast and videos. 17 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

Salsa Dancing Steps for Beginners

Salsa Dance Episode : Simple Salsa Dance MixerSo, here we are again with a simple salsa dancing move for you to mix it in to your other moves. Remember, it is not about having multiple long combos, but about putting smaller ones together in different orders. That will keep your moves fresh and keep the ladies guessing what you will do next. Additionally, for those who are thinking about on2, I make a small note for you to pay attention to the counting rhythm when performing the move. Enjoy!

The song used in the episode is “Philadelphia Mambo” by Los Gatos (originally by Tito Puente)

Published 4 years ago in podcast and videos. 15 Comments Tags: , , , , , , .

SantoRico Performs “Gangsta”

Stumbling upon youtube videos again, one of our friends found this great performance by the Santo Rico dance team. I may not have mentioned them in a while, but here is a great find. They are some of the most amazing spinners you will ever see in performances throughout the world. One thing to notice, for us technical dancers, is that the men have a very unique prep that is circular, compared to the ‘double-J’ prep to lead multiple turns. Regardless, this is a must watch video for us looking for inspiration.

As a side-note, they also offer online salsa classes for a fee over at bailasociety.com

Published 4 years ago in article and videos. 2 Comments Tags: , , , .

A Great Collection of Salsa Dance Videos…

The wonderful (possibly future co-host) Julie sent me these videos, and I found them to be inspirational. It is of course a biased list since you have some of my favorite-styled dancers there.

Here you have Magna and Adolfo social dancing at a Salsa Congress to “Para Ochun y Yemaya” by Hector Lavoe and Willie Colon.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=pKHIrwd38E8

Here are two great dancers: Burju (Hacha y Machete) and Milton Cobo (Cobo Brothers) social dancing in the San Francisco Salsa Congress. They are both known for having incredible body movement, and while the video is short, it is still sweet.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=eO0E5xtfTOs

One of the favorite videos in this set. This is my favorite couples to watch dance. This is Hacha y Machete (Victor and Burju) Freestyling at the UK Salsa Congress. Of course, I’ve never asked the question to Victor or Burju on who is the Hacha and who is the Machete out of them both.

And of course, finally – for something a little faster – is the other Cobo Brother, James Cobo dancing at the UK Congress showing the pattern he taught (or just freestyling).

Cobo Brothers Turn Pattern @ UK Congress 2007

Published 4 years, 2 months ago in article, Congress and videos. Closed Tags: , , , , .