Vacilala steps are the signature steps of Cuban Salsa. The basic hand free Vacilala move is the favorite move of many salsa dancers. In almost every social dance, Vacilala is used at least one or two times as the most elegant way to get into free style mode. Hand held Vacilala is used as the beginning of more than 100
Read moreIf you hold hands when you go social dancing, you are all wrong in most dance styles. We don’t hold hands or should not hold hands. Hands should only touch hands with a varying degree of tension. We use fingertips against fingertips and even hooked fingers. We might rest a hand on or in a hand but we never hold
Read moreIn Cuban Salsa we count 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8 to the beat of the music. Since we don’t step on 4 and 8, we normally count “1-2-3-…, 5-6-7-…”. Since we can tap on 4 and 8, as an optional feature, many of us count 1-2-3-tap, 5-6-7-tap. So far so good. The full eight count In Cuban Salsa, and this is important to understand
Read more“Salsafición” is an impressive Dance Academy with a professionel website, http://www.salsaficion.com and YouTube Channel. The many YouTube dance videos are innovative and well organized as a free online course, started in 2018! Here is an overview of the course as presented at the website: Salsafición: Free Cuban Salsa Couse. The videos have focus on the instructions. It took me some
Read moreThe move named Amistad (friendship) is an excellent way to prepare for the start of any of the moves in the A Bayamo family. Amistad makes the start of A Bayamo more dynamic. The Rueda call could be Amistad – Llevela a Bayamo (llevela = take her). Or Amistad – A Bayamo por Arriba, etc. The first video just shows
Read moreWe are free to do our own fine tuning of well-known A Bayamo figures. If our variation is substantial, we should change the name accordingly. Often just adding the word “variation” to the figure name can be enough. Very often video variations of A Bayamo figures are really not variations, but flat wrong attempts to do one of the well-known
Read moreThe Panqué con Candela (candela = candle) is a solid new Siete move made by Alexander Friol, published in 2017. The video is from “Tum Taka Tum” in Mexico:
Read morePanqué pa’ti pa’mi (para ti para mi = for you for me) is a common move in Rueda de Casino. I have done it many times with different callers, often from Cuba. Other names might be used for the move, but Panqué pa’ti pa’mi (pancake dig mig) is a good name that makes sense, and is easy to remember. A
Read moreThe Panqué con Chocolate is a so-called fun move for Rueda de Casino. I have done it in Rueda de Casino many times with different callers, often from Cuba. The move is rather well-known. The move is exactly the same as Panqué pa’ti pa’mi except that the ending, the para mi part has a “naughty” twist. Panqué con chocolate begins
Read morePanque Complicado is a move made by Martín Ruedero. He was lucky that the complicado name way free to use except that we have a move called Siete Complicado. And since Siete = Panqué, I have called his move Panqué Complicado de Martin. Only one video found. Just like Siete Unisex Complicado, the Panqué Complicado move is not a typical
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