Product Description
DVD #1 "MUEVE LA CINTURA" focuses on Cuban Salsa dance styling as well as other Cuban dance forms that have been the inspiration and foundation for all the different Salsa styles danced throughout the World.
Part One - Dance Couples with Live Band
Features seven remarkable Cuban dance couples (professional and amateur) who dance together as a group, and who also dance as individual couples demonstrating their personal styles, at slow and fast dance tempos.
Part Two - The Roots of Salsa Cubana
Isaias Rojas, Director of the dance company "Ban Ra Ra" demonstrates and explains the most popular Cuban dance forms in Cuba, and also demonstrates how these older dance styles have influenced Salsa.
Part Three - Salsa Cubana Basics
Isaias demonstrates and explains the basic steps, turns, transitions, hand placement, and dancing to the clave or the melody.
Part Four - Exercises
Isaias leads a series of exercises that help to loosen the body, giving that mobility for moving in the Cuban style - mueve la cintura !
in Spanish with English subtitles....
DVD #2 "SALSA SUELTA CANDELA"
Similar to rueda de casino, salsa suelta is initiated when people want to party and dance together as a larger group. But instead of dancing in a circle as in rueda, salsa suelta is danced in lines.
This DVD features Cuban style salsa suelta inspired from the dance culture of the barrios of Havana. The moves have evolved from a variety of Cuban dance traditions including rumba, orisha dance, son, cha cha cha, mambo, casino, plus the more modern influences of timba and hip hop.
The Salsa Suelta Candela DVD has six sections:
1- Introduction
2- Salsa Suelta Performance
3- Salsa Suelta Basic Steps
4- Combination Moves Advanced
5- Dancing On and Off the Beat
6- Combination Moves Beginning
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #165912 in DVD
- Published on: 2004
- Running time: 108 minutes
Features
- "MUEVE LA CINTURA"
- "SALSA SUELTA CANDELA"
- Two DVD titles filmed in Cuba
