Have you just started learning how to Salsa dance? If so, you know that learning new steps and patterns can often times be challenging, not to mention having to pay attention to the complex rhythms of a fast tempo Salsa song. We understand that dancing to smooth, slow-tempo music maximizes your ability to focus not only on the rhythm, but on your steps and your partner as well- it allows you to enjoy the dance! The songs listed on the right are some of our favorite slow tempo songs because they are fun and easy to dance to. If you’re a beginner Salsa dancer, we recommend that you make them part of your Salsa music collection and that you practice dancing to them! Have fun!
Yesterday I had been to Zenzi Mills, for the Pre-New Years Bash. The party was at the Ist floor instead of the the usual ground floor, that meant a large place to dance and place for beginners like me to get indulged and practice my moves.
It was a great party, the crowd usually coming in very late and there wasn’t much of a forum for the tango lessons as I was told. But slowly and surely the crowd trickled in and it was getting to one of the best parties I attended especially because of the number of new comers.
Except for a few downers, like a bunch of Australian women out there, who were indulging this young unruly kid who was buying them free drinks.I must commend Santosh the Instructor from Salsa India for doing his job so well, he kept a very kool head and asked the guy to take the walk with the Australian women who he was trying to buy out.
I can understand a complete newcomer to the Salsa scene misbehaving, but what I cannot understand is regulars to the Salsa party who misbehave. I was particularly shocked to see a guy who is almost at all the Salsa Parties,forcing a kiss on a girl, after dancing K-style bachata on the dance floor. After being reprimanded, he explains, this is how things work and beginners should know.
As per the usual customs of social dancing, girls generally don’t refuse anyone for a dance, and if that is taken as a consent to molest her, I can predict that Salsa dancing as a social activity in clubs would die a premature death,and we would be restricted to hold dance events in school halls, where the deadline would be 9pm.
what do you ladies think? If any of you feel you have been abused in the name of power or dance, and want to warn these predators, write to me at manoj@mumbaisalsa.info
P.S For people who are wondering what’s K-Style Bachata is, “its a sensual form of dance, where the guys right leg are essentially(well most of the time) between the girls legs” still don’t get it, check out kaytee dancing in this video
1. You vividly remember your first experience with salsa and the date it happened. 2. You never listen to the radio anymore because all you listen to are salsa cds/cassettes. 3. Salsa lessons/club cover fees are now a permanent part of your monthly expenses. 4. You say you are going shopping for a new business outfit, but you are secretly salsa shopping. 5. Your boyfriend/girlfriend does not understand the "strictly platonic" relationship you have with your salsa partner because you simply cannot wait until you practice with him/her again. 6. You watch anything that deals with body movement, (i.e. karate, gymnastics, figure skating, ballet) because you are trying to devise a new salsa move. 7. Everything you do leads back to salsa.
C. Clear the area to allow yourself the largest possible space, grab an unsuspecting partner and break out into a Paso Doble. Or, work on your krunk. Or, Viennese Waltz your tush all over the place.
The first tips Tony Didier gives for dancing salsa are general ones not necessarily geared toward salsa: Find the beat and connect with your partner.
Question : When is the earliest you can start to teach Salsa dancing to children ?
Answer : Before the child is born you can listen to Salsa music & dance to the rhythms. Unborn babies can feel the vibrations from music as University studies on Classical music have shown. This is especially true if the mother dances to the music. The Unborn baby gets used to feeling the music vibrations & learning that movement is associated with the music.
Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~William Stafford
How can we know the dancer from the dance? ~William Butler Yeats
There is a bit of insanity in dancing that does everybody a great deal of good. ~Edwin Denby
Please send me your last pair of shoes, worn out with dancing as you mentioned in your letter, so that I might have something to press against my heart. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
I would believe only in a God that knows how to dance. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Question : When is the earliest you can start to teach Salsa dancing to children ?
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Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music. ~William Stafford
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