“La Maquinaria” is one of the first Cuban Salsa videos I fell in love with. Cuban Salsa at its best, so inclusive: young and old, black and white, beautiful and less beautiful, you and me. This is still one of my all time favorite Timba salsa songs, certain to bring me to my dance feet. I found the Spanish lyrics
Read moreWhen I hear the card shuffling at the very start of the introduction to the song, making me recognize it as “La Diabla”, I just say: “Are you ready to play?”, when I ask for a dance. After the table with lyrics in Spanish and English side by side, three videos: one with Spanish/English lyrics, one with Spanish lyrics only,
Read moreBeing a non-Spanish speakning social latin dancer is somehow a paradox. A Spanish speaking person will tell you that understanding the lyrics, singing along just a little, is a major part of the fun on the dance floor dancing Salsa and Bachata. More importantly, knowing the lyrics makes it easier to understand what the music expresses, to read the music,
Read moreThis is a “rare” (seen from Scandinavia) Colombian Cuban Salsa dance school located in Bogota. They have more than 100 of the very best salsa videos, all levels, beautifully organized in “Básico”, “Intermedio”, “Avanzado”, and the website is not a relic of the past but still active. The dancers are lovely, they dance even better, except that the leader in
Read moreThe RuedaStandard.com – Cuban Rueda de Casino, formerly known as “The Norwegian Rueda Standard”, is one of the best and most important resources about Cuban Salsa or rather about the Rueda way of dancing Cuban Salsa. RuedaStandard.com and their work is so important that I will make a major blogpost one day reviewing the initiative from A to Z. I
Read moreThe logo of this Spanish YouTube channel is a frog. The channel has very many educational videos, dancing, martial arts, you name it. The “Latin-mix” videos cover Cuban Salsa, Salsa footwork, X-Body Salsa, Bachata, Cha-cha-cha and Merenque all featuring “Pedro y Noe”. Many of their videos are quite good. This Pedro is impressive and often he gives good instructions. But
Read moreI love to wake up to it in the morning preparing my oat meal, eating breakfast, doing the dishes and making the bed, while dancing to it all the time, practicing footwork, body isolation, and crazy improvisations. JUAN FORMELL y LOS VAN VAN Feat. PEDRITO CALVO – “Anda Ven Y Muevete”. The video start with Juan Formell singing and all
Read more“Salsa Dancing Walk-Through – 36 Movements” (01:17:41) is the best and most inspiring basic salsa tutorial ever. The two instructors, Gino Garcia and Kristin Travis, are cute like puppies, and their soft-spoken small-talking instructions are the best introduction to salsa, one can imagine. It is not Cuban Salsa but so-called X-Body salsa, Salsa On One. In Cuban Salsa we also
Read moreAvinciia Dance Academy, Paris, has many Salsa videos also on Avinciia YouTube. The dancers in the videos I have seen, Armandino & Elodie, are elegant, and if you understand French, the videos are good inspiration. In the first series of videos, Armandino is dressed in vest and boots and in the more recent videos in all white making the videos
Read moreThe DanceLiker School (YouTube) is a Russian dance school in Moscow, http://www.danceliker.ru. They have many good videos, Cuban Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba. I have looked at many of the Salsa videos featuring a Cuban type of guy, Adonis Santiago, and Svetlana Ovchinina. Even when you don’t understand the language, the instructions make sense! And he certainly have this inspiring Cuban feel to
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