We can start Enchufla from the start position of Open Position, from the START position of Dile Que No (Caída or Promenade Position), the so-called Enchufla por la Derecha, and from the start potion of Rodeo like in Setenta Complicado. We can also start Enchufla from the END of Dile Que No. That is, instead of using DQN to get
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A transcript of the speak in the video. Welcome to this Social Dance Rant Number ONE about the paradox of Good looking Junk! Could be relevant for most social dance styles. My name is Jesper Tverskov. When we watch a dance video, it is natural to think that if a dance figure or turn technique looks good and it works
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This iconic video clip is from the 1939 film, “Another Thin Man”. The dancers, René Rivero Guillén and Ramona Ajón (Estella), where originally from Matanzas in Cuba. The video clip is fabulous, mesmerizing. The Mother of all Cuban Son. There is only one problem. The dance is completely dominated by the Leader. This is a common problem in Cuban social
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This Video Demo of Cuban Son, 2021, is good to illustrate a few things about Cuban Son and Casino. The demo dance is five minutes long. The first four minutes are good even excellent, the last minute, 20 percent of the dance, is a disaster. Before I explain why, let me say a few things about Cuban Son in general.
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I believe that a Lead should ideally know and practice hundreds of basic figures and moves, but only use a small selection in any one dance. It is better to use 10 figures 5 times in one dance than to use 50 figures one time. In the Social Dance Practica Video below, more than three minutes long, I only use
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Definitely not, speaking in general. And there are absolutely no objective benefits from dancing the first part of a dance on “two” instead of on “one”. The only argument for doing it: that it happens to be your personal preference, or that you like to do it for a change. The OBJECTIVE disadvandtages, on the other hand, are legio for
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I call my Private Cuban Salsa Practica for my daily social workout. I train with one of several dance partners at all levels in parks and on public dance platform or in private homes. Your own Practica, where Lead and Follow decide date, time and place, the music, what and how to train, is to me social dancing at a
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Most dancers have a surprisingly limited understanding of the true meaning of leading and following. Some of the more talented act as if they know it anyway relying on instinct. But often they are not conscious about what they are doing and can’t explain it. Even some mediocre or average talented dancers get it right by chance or they are
Read moreWhen you dance a lot, you can not but notice that among the regulars there are a few, you never ask for a dance. Why? Is it a problem? Should you care? The Follows I don’t dance with fall in four groups. The first, a small group, is the Follows I for some reason haven’t asked yet. Some are among
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It depends on many factors, differs from individual to individual, and the way we prioritize the arguments are likely to change as we get less young. But the questions each one of us must answer, the discussion we must have with ourselves, are more or less the same. Let me remind us of some of them by telling my own
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