Salsa is a Latin style dance, its passionate and unrestrained dance style is not inferior to Rumba and Cha Cha, but it is easier to start than them. Compared with rumba, cha-cha and other Latin dances, salsa dancers also have more room for spontaneous play, so salsa is not only popular in Latin America, but also loved by people in other parts of the world. Since more than 10 years ago this dance form into Japan, more and more Japanese people are fascinated by it, now, salsa dance classes and a variety of salsa dance in Japan has been everywhere.
Basic introduction Chinese name ：salsa Foreign name ：salsa Nature definition ：a Latin style of dance Popular country ：Japan Earliest appearance ：Cuba Alias ："Prompting the magic dance of love" Mainly involves ：Latin,Cuba,SALSA,Dance,Music Introduction,Popular Japan,Dance background,Development status quo Development in China, Cuban Salsa, Overview, Traceability, Distribution, Introduction It is said that Salsa first appeared in Cuba. At that time, Cuba was a transit point for the African slave trade to North America, and those slaves who were not in good physical condition were left there. Although these slaves had to work with leg irons, they did not forget to dance, and often danced simple steps while working in the fields. The musical instruments they used to accompany the dance were also very simple at that time, just some daily living tools. Through continuous evolution, in the 1820s, the salsa dance basically formed the present dance movements. At the end of the 1960s, salsa became more entertaining and expressive in the United States with the fusion of jazz dance styles, and became popular around the world. Salsa Salsa (salsa) in Spanish originally refers to a sauce, which is a tomato sauce with a spicy flavor that is especially loved by Latin Americans. Latin music began to use salsa in 1933, when the Cuban composer Ignacio Pinero was inspired to write the song "Echale Salsita" (Add a little sauce to it!) after eating food that had lost its Cuban-style spiciness. "Echale Salsita", a song that started a new era of salsa in Latin American music and dance, the spiciness of salsa transformed into an everyday spoken word, and the combination of the music became a catalyst for enthusiasm. The salsa style of music and dance blossomed throughout the Americas and around the world. Salsa dance is a fusion of Latin and jazz dance steps, hips, waist, buttocks and inner thighs are its main body parts. Salsa dancing not only strengthens the cardiovascular function and enhances the flexibility of the body, but also strengthens and modifies the curves of the hips and legs. For beginners, the first thing to do is to relax your whole body and don't fight with your shoulders and hips. As long as you keep up with the instructor's beat and pace, you will be able to dance beautiful salsa steps. Don't underestimate the training of basic steps. Whether you can dance salsa or not, it all depends on this first level. In salsa, the music is as important as the steps. With the rhythmic music twisting your body, feel the fusion of dance steps and music, at this time the dance posture is not particularly important, the important thing is the mood. When you feel happy, you realize the true meaning of this dance. Popular in Japan Salsa is a strong rhythmic duo dance, which emphasizes the cooperation and tacit understanding of two people. In the eyes of the people around them, a man and a woman dancing salsa seem to be falling in love, so some people refer to salsa as "the magical dance that brings love". It has become increasingly popular among Japanese people. In the early 1990s, specialized salsa clubs appeared in Japan, but at that time, most Japanese people still lacked an understanding of salsa, and the clubs' business was slow. Within a few years, however, the Japanese discovered the many benefits of salsa dancing: it is easy to learn, and after dancing, it can fully release emotions and reduce stress. It is also true that due to the fierce competition in Japanese society and the fact that Japanese people are not very good at communicating and expressing themselves, it is easy to accumulate tensions, and salsa dancing can make people happy and relaxed. As a result, a "salsa craze" began to sweep across the country 10 years ago, and is still going strong today. Background of the Dance Almost forty years of isolation, Cuba, an island in the Caribbean Sea, has produced the world's highest quality cigars and is the birthplace of popular music: son, rumba, mambo and salsa. The evolution of Cuban history has had a profound effect on the development of music. Two hundred years ago, Cuba was a maritime transit point for Spanish colonizers transporting gold, and the fleet was anchored by wooden nails that connected all the ships. Spanish sailors and slaves from Africa transformed the sound of the nails' hammering into a marvelous rhythm like magic, which is the origin of the rhythms and rhythms of present-day Latin music. In the 19th century, Cuba was the world's leading sugar exporter, and because of the demand for agricultural labor, a large number of African slaves were trafficked to the country. African drumming and the worship of the many gods and goddesses of the African rituals were introduced to the country, and became the main impetus for today's salsa music. Salsa Salsa is derived from the chanson, which combines the powerful rhythms of Africa with the rural Spanish songs of Santiago in eastern Cuba, and is the prototype for many Latin American styles, as well as the source of the cha cha cha, the mambo, and the salsa. In the 1930s, during the Batista administration, relations with the United States were so close that the country's major industries were monopolized by American capitalists, and there was an influx of American tourists and businessmen engaged in investment. The bars and nightclubs of Havana were the meeting places of the high society at that time, and the general environment *** created salsa that combined various elements, which was promoted to the United States and the whole of the Americas. The success of the Cuban Revolution in the 1970s and the dictatorship of Castro led many Cuban artists to go into exile in the United States, which spread Cuban songs and Latin rhythms all over the world, and New York can be said to be a melting pot of Latin music, art and dance, which developed the New York Salsa. Salsa. Celia Cruz, who has been described as the 'Queen of Salsa', sang salsa in New York. At the same time, the U.S. sanctions against Cuba continued unabated, hindering the spread of Cuban musicians' voices in the country, and the world gradually forgot about this Caribbean island that exported countless songs with tobacco and sugar. Cuban songs around the world. Interestingly, the political rivalry between the Cuban salsa and the New York salsa is also reflected in the relationship between rivalry and competition. In the 1990s, with the opening up of Castro to tourism, European and American music producers and record labels came to Cuba in search of treasures, revisiting the golden age of Cuban music, and reintroducing the world to traditional, non-commercial Latin music, and the Cuban chanson once again shone brightly on the world's music scene in the 1990s. Salsa is the language of Spain, and as soon as the music is played, the body twists and turns, and the whole audience boils with excitement. Salsa is a continuation of the basic structure of the chanson, with a stronger dance element, and has always been a popular base in all Latin American countries. The "salsa phenomenon" has become inextricably linked to the lives of Latin American people, from clubs to family gatherings and even on the streets, from the elderly to children, from the working class to the upper class, salsa has no age or class barriers, but only a variety of styles and appearances, just like the taste of the sauce, which is pungent with a touch of sweetness and sourness. Salsa has become the spokesman for Latin dance by combining the steps of the Salsa, Rumba, Mambo, and Cha Cha. No matter if it is a male-female dance, a female style, or a free solo salsa, the intimate contact and the unique and sexy dance steps will bring out the charm of the women and the boldness of the men in the twisting and swinging of the hips and rotation to the fullest extent. Salsa has long been popular in Europe and the United States for decades, and Asian regions such as Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and even Shanghai, Beijing have set off salsa mania. Development in China Salsa dancing has been greatly developed in China. Roughly since 2003, salsa dancing has been practiced in Beijing, and then gradually spread to Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Hangzhou, Nanjing, Qingdao, Changsha, Suzhou, Shenyang, Chengdu, Wuhan and other places. In Beijing has appeared Liuyang Club, Yang Yang Club, Yang Ming Club, Flying Dance Latin Club, Ostrich Club, SunnyRay Club, Fire Phoenix Club, Youken Latin Club, salsa5 Club, D-zone Club, Kubo Dance Club, Yue Dance Club, Fei Za salsa dance club, and so on, a large number of salsa dance professional teaching institutions. At the same time, there are also a number of places suitable for salsa dance, such as Salsa Caribe (Carribean) bar, latinos bar (closed), dance burning love club (Haidian Huangzhuang), Beijing Surprise Dance (Haidian Zhongguancun), the Beijing Youth Palace (Yang Ming), Flying Dance Latin bar (CASA DE DAVID), Mera Cuban Restaurant (GUANTANAMERA), Club SuzieWong, China Doll, Cappuccino Bar (Kuba Dance Club), "Block 8" (No.8). Block 8" (No. 8) in the "i-Ultra Lounge" (Fire Phoenix), Beijing Junai Bar (Yue Dance Club), Ace Lake Western Restaurant, Wu Mei International Dance Club, Sangria Bar, SADDLE CANTINA and so on. In Shanghai, there are SalsaShanghai Club, Shanghai Hot Salsa Club, Shanghai Mambo Dance and Culture Club, Shanghai MIAO CLUB, Urban Dance Workshop - Le Workshop, Shanghai Super Dance Club and other clubs, and the fixed activity venues are "Grinding Bar", "Bar PARK", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", "Bar", and so on. "Bar, PARK97 Bar, Yao Restaurant, 789 Bar, Effigie Café & Bar, Bund Five Bar, Changning Workers' Cultural Hall, "JZ Club", Kowloon City Club, Century Shanghai Cinema Western Restaurant and Bar, NDH Club, "ZAPATA'S" and other venues. In Hangzhou, there are two main dance studios: Zhou Ning Latin Dance Studio and Hangzhou Salsa Dance Club (SHZDC), and the fixed venues are MINT Bar (on the left side of Tianlun Boutique Hotel) and Barossa Bar. In Guangdong, there are mainly ET Dance Club, Guangzhou Salsa Cubana, Guangzhou Salsa Mania Club, Shenzhen Ami Dance Workshop, Shenzhen Salsa Club, Foshan Salsa Club, and the activity venues are Guangzhou Salsa Bar-Irish flavor The Paddy Field, Guangzhou Q Bar. In Nanjing, there are Nanjing FUEGO Salsa Club, Nanjing Nami Style SALSA Club, Nanjing Dance and LOHAS SALSA Workshop, and there are 3-4 salsa shows every week. There are 3-4 salsa themed dances every week. Fujian Province, the first professional training organization of Latin style dance - Xiamen Salsa dance training hall, Xiamen salsa new era leader - Xiamen love SALSA SALSA international style Latin dance club. Frontier position Qingdao's first professional training organization: Salsa-Q Qingdao Dance Club, set training and party in one. In addition, there is a salsa-themed dance party in Q-Bar of Qingdao Shangri-La Hotel every Monday. In other cities, there are basically no regular venues. In the ancient city of Xi'an, there is also a training base for Latin dance - Xi'an Meiya Dance Club, which teaches LA style salsa, as well as bachata, merengue and chacha. They often hold dance parties in this club, and Xi'an also has an authentic Latin bar, the Havana Bar in the People's Mansion, which has pure Colombian singers playing live. Under the promotion of Head Coach Song Da, more fashionable men and women in the ancient city have come into the world of Salsa dance. Wuhan is a star salsa city just rising in central China, mainly Wuhan Meiduo salsa club (Chengdu Meiduo franchise chain), Wuhan Manro salsa club, fixed activities for Uni dance bar (have you dance bar), every Monday to Saturday night 21:30-00:30 are South American dance specials, salsa, bachata, Argentine tango.... Argentine tango... Address is Wuhan City, Wuhan Wuchang Hongshan District, Luoyu Road, Optics Valley International Plaza Optics Valley Center Garden A1-1401, rain or shine, the owner of the store is a passion for South American culture of young people, dedicated support for our dance, welcome to Wuhan to enjoy the salsa dance friends from around the world! The first national teacher training course for Latin style dance, organized by the Social Sports Center of the State General Administration of Sports and the China DanceSport Federation, and hosted by ShangDance Magazine and co-sponsored by the Yang Ming Latin Dance Training Base, will spread the seeds of salsa dance all over the country and officially include salsa dance in the national promotion of one of the ten kinds of fitness and social dances. Cuban Salsa Overview Cuban salsa is the most traditional style of all salsa types, other types such as mambo, modern salsa, New York salsa, Colombian salsa, they are relatively late compared to the Cuban salsa, and are based on the Cuban salsa, which is from Cuba and in New York rubbed a lot of rock and roll elements into the dance. The main difference between Cuban Salsa and New York Mambo is that Cuban Salsa dancers dance around each other and around the floor in a circular motion, whereas in New York Mambo Salsa everyone walks in a straight line. Cuban salsa is based on the development of traditional music, in the early 1900's many new instruments were brought to Cuba by the slaves such as the bongos, double bass, cow-bells and this led to the emergence of a new form of music in Cuba called "Cuban SON", which consisted of the slaves playing music against each other and beating their drums. It was created by slaves playing music and beating drums against each other. Dancers began to dance to this music, and Cuban salsa was born. Salsa Dance Salsa is not a Cuban specialty, but there are plenty of reasons to believe that it originated in the Caribbean island of Cuba. At that time there was a country dance (Contra-Danze) imported from England and France, later called Danzón, which was brought to Cuba by a French exile from Haiti, and which was slowly combined with the Rumba, which originated in Africa, and at the same time with the Són of the Cubans. (Són was created by Sonero, a Spanish folk singer, as a more rhythmic dance accompaniment with African percussion.) The fusion is not as great as one might think, and varies in many countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Puerto Rico, where bands have brought their music to Mexico City, where the movies were the most famous at that time. era, where it was best known for its movies. (Cuban composer Perez Prado was one of the most famous, for example) and soon came to New York, where more promotional behavior and more styles were incorporated to make these dances grow, which were more commercial. The name Salsa was first used by New Yorkers, but New Yorkers did not create the dance, the name became popular because New Yorkers nicknamed the different styles of music from the Spanish-influenced countries of the era: Rumba, Montuno, Guaracha, Mambo, Rumba, Rumba, Rumba, Montuno, Guaracha, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, Mambo, and Mambo. Guaracha, Mambo, Cha Cha, Danson, son, Guguanco, cubop, guajira, charanga, cumbia, plena, bomba, festejo, merengue, and so on, some of which continued to maintain their own identity, while others eventually merged into Salsa. Today's Salsa music has a Son tone to it, and often you can hear Cumbia and Guaracha as well. You can even find hints of the old merengue in some salsa. Even modern salsa music retains many of the characteristics of the old style. Salsa varies from region to region, for example, in New York, due to the fact that some of the original Colombian songs were produced with a lot of new instruments and a lot of effective percussion sounds, New Yorkers find it very comfortable to dance to the beat of the music when dancing the mambo, whereas in the earlier music, this was not particularly easy to find. to discover. When salsa music was thought to be at an advanced stage of production and ready for the local market, it turned out that this "advanced stage" was unrealistic. The Colombians did not dance to Puerto Rican or "post-Cuban" salsa rhythms, which is what we call "post-Cuban", because by that time, a new style of Cuban music had evolved in the country. Distribution of varieties As we can see, Salsa is like a huge tree with many branches and a trunk that connects them all. Salsa is popular throughout the Spanish-speaking world and has established many different styles, influenced by many of the local cultures. If you think that Salsa is a local culture in a certain place, then you don't understand the status of Salsa in Spanish-speaking countries, and if you think that there is only one style that is the best, then that's a misconception, too. He finds a partner at random and takes her to a club where another style of dance dominates, so he doesn't look any better than the locals. This is because each person has his/her own style of dancing, no one is better than the other, but each is different. Therefore, the world of salsa (Salsa) dance is colorful, a huge variety of dances representing different regional cultures, and the constant fusion of development and innovation is the important reason why salsa (Salsa) dance is popular all over the world. Los Angeles style salsa dance Like all things from Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Southern California, Los Angeles style salsa dance is characterized by sensationalism,, speed, and power, making the impossible seem so easy. The Los Angeles style of salsa dancing skillfully blends traditional salsa with jazz, street, ballroom, swing, and ballet. On stage, one can instantly tell that these people are dancing L.A. style salsa because their dance moves are so compelling and sensational. They put a lot of emphasis on the first beat, always dancing from the first beat of the music. It is this Los Angeles style that has popularized countless salsa techniques, as well as the "Hollywood" style of salsa shows, which require costumes, theme songs, and dancing techniques. This is the most popular style of dancing in the United States and abroad. In Memphis, we also do LA style salsa. Salsa Dance The founders of Los Angeles style salsa dance are Luis, Joby Vazquez, Francisco Vazquez, Johnny Vasquez, Edgar "Tun Tun" Mendez, Teresa Zamorano, Alex DaSilva, Josie Neglia, Salomon Rivera and Edie "The Salsa Maniac". New York Style Salsa The New York style salsa was developed from the great New York mambo dancers and was also influenced by the New York ballroom dance, the Big Apple. Because of its gentle dance style, it is easily recognized as New York style salsa. New Yorkers emphasize control of the beat, style and technique. Whenever you watch a New York style salsa dance, you will notice that they are always calm and surprisingly, their twists are done flawlessly. They dance with a focus on the second beat, starting from the second beat of the music. The New York style of salsa has caught on like a prairie fire in many of the major cities of the United States as well as abroad. This style of salsa dominates the New York area and much of the East Coast. You will hear some dancers refer to New York style salsa by other names, such as "Puerto Rican style" or "second beat". Founders of New York style salsa include Angel, Addie Rodriguez, Eddie Torrez, Seon Bristol, I *** ael Otero, Adie Diaz, Juan Matos, Luis Zegarra, and Nelson Flores. Miami Style Salsa Miami style salsa is often referred to as a "(dancing) casino". This style of salsa is very unique because it is heavily influenced directly from Cuba, the birthplace of salsa. You'll often easily recognize people who are dancing Miami salsa because they dance in groups, with several people turning in sync and swapping partners. Miami dancers are known for the intricacy of their steering combinations. The Miami ladies have to let their arms relax so that the men can hold them well during the quick twists, which cannot be done in either the New York style or the Los Angeles style. Another characteristic of Miami style salsa is that it has a "prep" step, where the dancer walks one eight-beat beat before the first beat of the music begins. Miami style salsa is dominant in South Florida. Cumbia style salsa The development of the Cumbia style salsa dance originated on the northern coast of Colombia. "Cumbia" is actually another style of passionate music compared to salsa.Cumbia music has an eight-beat rhythm compared to salsa, so it can be used for salsa dancing. You can use Cumbia music for salsa dancing but not salsa music for Cumbia dancing. Salsa Because this style of dance is danced in a circle, with everyone having a "winding" motion before turning, the Cumbia style of salsa is characterized by a backward step as the basic step. This style dominates all salsa dances in Latin America. In Costa Rica, they call Cumbia "El Swing". There is hardly a true school of Cumbia, nor a professional teacher of Cumbia. All Cumbia dancers will tell you that they learned it from their parents, friends at a dance, or just from a Latin club. For this reason, many Cumbia dancers call themselves "street dancers" and have never attended a formal class. 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