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Alarde Complicado is Cuban all the way but it is not a typical Cuban salsa move. I regard it more like a better dance school combo, good to practice at advanced level with several difficult basic figures. The most important part is the Alarde section, one of the hallmarks of Cuban Salsa. The Alardes in this tutorial is the relatively

Nudo means “knot” and this is not a good name because we have less knot in Nudo than in so many other Cuban Salsa moves. The basic Nudo move is short, two counts of eight. Most Complicado versions are not at all Complicado, they just add an Exhibela to the baseline. When very Complicado, they even repeat themselves after the

Dile Que Sí (say yes to her) is the twin sister to Dile Que No (say no to her). As a move Dile Que Sí is a handheld Vacilala. The Follow is lead forward on one, she turns on 1-2-3 in order for the Lead to bring her into closed position on 5-6-7. That is what the name means: bring

Rainbow. Arcoiris means rainbow and is sometimes spelled Arco Iris. The move starts like other Setenta moves with Hammerlock, and for that reason the move is also called Setenta con Arcoiris. I prefer the short form, and there is a reason for the name. The figure clearly has a part that looks like a bow, a rainbow. There are a

A classic Cuban Setenta move and a must to train at intermediate level for learning the basic technique of going down under the Follow’s right arm. Abajo and por Abajo means down. The move is also called por a bajo (by a low), de bajo (of low) or debajo (under). I prefer Setenta por Abajo, it both sounds and looks

Setenta y Cinco Complicado replaces the Vacilala with a two handed Enchufla and continues with the Complicado part of the Noventa move. One could just as well use the Complicado part of the Setenta Nuevo move. Video 1 is from Pablo Solis, Roma, Italy, 2012. Video 2 is from Salsagaia, Firenze, Italy, 2018, featuring Elena De Simonis as Follow. Name

In Setenta y Cinco por Arriba, the back-to-back turn has replaced Vacilala. Normally the back-to-back turn is done over a count of eight, and at the very end of the eight count, on 7-8, an Alarde is added or the Sombrero ending is used. I am in favor of using the full count of eight for the back-to-back turn in

Setenta y Cinco should be reserved for the “75” ending with the two handed Vacilala. Most dancers seem to agree, 9 out of 10 “75” videos end with Vacilala. There is one other ending that deserves to have its own name, and that is “75” ending with a back-to-back turn, a so-called barrel turn. This is a great turn that

As mentioned in the Setenta y Cinco (75) tutorial, the “75” with the two handed Vacilala at the end, there are many good alternative ways to end the move, making it easy to adapt to any Follow and to changes in the music. But nine out of 10 videos use the Vacilala ending. In this tutorial we look at the