Rueda de Casino is great fun, good for socialising, a nice way to say hello to new comers as well as to old friends. But Rueda de Casino is also hard-wired choreography with no decision making, no leading and following, no improvisation, no creativity and no musicality. If we dance a lot of Rueda de Casino, the burden of the
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Traveling Double Turns is one of the signature features of Cuban Salsa. They are normally done as two Three Step Turns. A Three Step Turn is to do a half turn, 180 degree between the first and the second step, and another half turn, between the second and the third step. That gives us a full 360. We have three
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Traveling Three Step Turns are the default way to turn in Cuban Salsa, making it easy to turn both in the first and in the last half of an 8-count, at least if the Follow doesn’t back-step but walks forward on “1-2-3” as well as on “5-6-7”. A Three Step Turn simply means to use three steps to walk a
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We have several good ways to start a social dance, and most of us agree that we should start with some form of closed position. One popular way is to use Son Básico or just to walk around more or less randomly in Closed Position or using the Son Box (Cajón), or to use the Adiós Closed Position Carousel. One
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How long or how short steps should we take in a dance like Cuban Salsa? Little is known about this subject, and it is seldom discussed despite the fact that it somehow seems to be an important discussion. The only thing I remember having ever heard from dance teachers in classes and workshops is the mantra that we should take
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If we need a stationary or semi-stationary turn, we have a good alternative to the classic Salsa Vuelta right turn with back-rocking and hand prepping on “1-2-3”, and turn on “5-6-7”. We should use the Cuban Vuelta, a very similar walk-around look-a-like turn. For the Cuban Vuelta, the Follow steps forward on “1” and walks around in a more or
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There is some confusion among Salsa and Bachata dancers about Triple Steps and Cha-Cha-Cha. Are Triple Steps and Cha-Cha-Cha the same or what is the difference, and how, when and where to use Triple Steps? Cha-Cha-Cha means two different things. On one hand Cha-Cha-Cha is just a popular generic term, meaning any Triple Step in any social dance style, placed
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Traveling turns, using three or four steps, should be executed as a continuing movement on a straight or curved line. Turning on a curved line around the Lead is the most common in Cuban Salsa. But traveling turns also takes place on the tangent to the circle or as part of walks where turning on a straight line is also
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Three Step Turns use three steps to do a full 360 degree turn, composed of two half turns. 180 degree between step “1” and step “2” and another 180 degree between step “2” and step “3”. Three Step Turns are very versatile. A Follow can start a Three Step Turn both to the left and to the right, on any
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It makes sense sometimes to turn in the middle of a count of eight, between “3” and “5”, using a full pirouette as a Two Step Turn, turning 360 degrees on one foot, right or left. At least as a supplement to Three Step Turns and to Two Step Spiral Turns. As a turn technique, a full 360 degree Pirouette
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