You will see LA style salsa where the dancers break forward on the first measure. This is known as On 1 salsa. Developed by the Vazquez brothers in LA, it is more of a linear dance and is a bit flashier and includes tricks. LA salsa is easier for beginners to start with due to the timing. This style typically breaks on the second and sixth beats in an eight-beat phrase.
Dancers typically dance closely within their space and it is more relaxed and elegant. Cuban salsa will include extracts of Rhumba, Cha, cha, cha, and Danzon with a more African feel. You will see more movements and gestures that reference folklore. On1 Salsa. Since most pop melodies focus attention to downbeats, 1, 3, 5, 7 , it is often easiest to "find the 1", by listening to the melodic instruments, such as vocals, horns and piano.
The basic pattern of dancing On1 has the Lead stepping forward with his left foot on the 1st beat of the music, and back on the 5. The Follow does the opposite, stepping backward on the 1 and forward on the five. Dancers in Los Angeles such as the Vasquez brothers helped to coin the term "LA Style" often characterized by long powerful steps, and many fancy, flashy patterns and tricks. Two examples of Salsa "LA Style" can be seen here and here. Cuban Salsa. It is distinctly different from both On 1 and On2 in that it flows in circular patterns, rather than the "in-line" back and forth approach that both salsa On1 and salsa On2 share.
People in Cuba often use the term "casino" to describe salsa dancing, and "casino rueda" when it is danced in a group. When danced in a circle, casino rueda uses a "caller" a person who calls out each next move and the Follows move around from Lead to Lead in a circle. An example to watch can be seen here. There are obviously more than just these three styles of salsa dancing.
Many more are constantly evolving as salsa dance competitions become popular around the globe. The rise of salsa music is also tied closely to Fania Records which was founded in by the musician Johnny Pacheco and an Italian-American divorce lawyer named Jerry Masucci. The two met at a party in a NY hotel. Around this time, Latin musicians began to have an impact on mainstream U. Latin music was becoming trendy here and beginning to intrigue the rest of the world as well.
Both types of salsa remain popular today and with the popularity of the music, came the popularity of the dance. The key instrument that provides the core groove of a salsa song is the clave. It is often played with two wooden sticks called clave that are hit together. For salsa, there are four types of clave rhythms, the and Son claves being the most important, and the and Rumba claves. Most salsa music is played with one of the Son claves, though a Rumba clave is occasionally used, especially during Rumba sections of some songs.
There are other aspects outside of the Clave that help define Salsa rhythm: the cowbell, the Montuno rhythm and the Tumbao rhythm. The cowbell is played on the core beats of Salsa, 1, 3, 5 and 7. The basic Salsa rhythm is quick, quick, slow, quick, quick, slow, in other words, 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 7, which are very similar to the beats of the cowbell.
Recognizing the rhythm of the cowbell helps one stay on Salsa rhythm. The Montuno rhythm is a rhythm that is often played with a piano. The Montuno rhythm loops over the 8 counts and is useful for finding the direction of the music. By listening to the same rhythm, that loops back to the beginning after eight counts, one can recognize which count is the first beat of the music. Tumbao is a rhythm in salsa that is played with the conga drums.
Its most basic pattern is played on the beats 2,3,4,6,7, and 8. However, the historical development of timba has been quite independent of the development of salsa in the United States and Puerto Rico and the music has its own trademark aspects due to the Cuban Embargo and strong Afro-Cuban heritage.
It came into use as a music genre name, first as timba brava, around Historically, Casino traces its origin as a partner dance from Cuban Son dancing, and its rhythmic body motions from Afro-Cuban Rumba heritage. Son is considered an older version and ancestor to Salsa.
Son is danced on delay measure upbeat contra-tiempo following the clave Son Clave whereas Casino is usually danced on the downbeat break of 1 or 3 a-tiempo. Casino was popularized in the late s as the Cuban Son received upbeat and quicker arrangements by musicians.
Casino has a very independent development, free from external influences such as Puerto Rican and North American dances partly due to the effect of the Cuban Embargo. Cuban-style salsa, also known as Casino, is popular in many places around the world, including in Europe, Latin America, North America, and even in some countries in the Middle East. Dancing Casino is an expression of popular social culture; Latin Americans consider casino as part of social and cultural activities centering around their popular music.
The origins of the name Casino are derived from the Spanish term for the dance halls where a lot of social Salsa dancing was done in Cuba during the midth century and onward. In order to speak of the antecedents of the Rueda de Casino it is necessary to go back to the reign of Luis XIV in France where the first ballets appeared. In order to have a good title it was necessary to know certain choreographies that were performed in the celebrations of the nobility.
Clear examples: the Minuet and the Contradanzas. In the XVIII century, with the presence of French fleets in the bay of Havana, the arrival of emigrants of Louisiana, New Orleans and fundamentally the French emigration coming from Haiti with the revolution produced the appearance in Cuba of the French Contradanzas and derived from this the Cuban Contradanza arises. The court of Luis XIV, the Creole aristocracy, Spanish and including the town interpreted the dance with pre-planned figures that all had to know and directed by a bastonero.
There have been contradiction between the informants of the place where casino fist appeared. Some say that it first appeared in the Spanish Casino, Grammar school of Havana, the Patricio Lumumba and others say in the Sport Casino; what is true is that it expanded throughout the capital. In the s many great dancers gathered there for friendly competitions. They would practice all week to invent new moves and go to the club to show them off.
Sooner or later they began to dance the moves together. In order to keep a distinction between one move and another, they began naming them and Rueda de Casino was born. As a result of the Castro regime, many Cubans immigrated to the US, a large portion of which to the Miami area. With them they took their culture including various foods, music and dancing. Rueda de Casino began to slowly make its way into the Miami salsa community and in the late s and early s it experienced an enormous explosion of popularity.
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