Salsa Dancing

Salsa dancing is similar to other types of ballroom dancing but there is a big and yet subtle difference on how you hold your dancing partner. Salsa involves a lot of turning around your dancing partner so the way you hold your partner is very important to make these moves a bit easier for the two of you.
 
Special and very significant points of salsa dancing
  • Standing and holding your partner.
  • Where to place your hands.
  • Communicating with your dancing partner.
  • Pretending that there is a wall

History of Salsa Dancing

Oozing with luxurious style, the passion and energy flowing about the dance floor as salsa dancers take to the scene is so catching that you may certainly long to feel the liveliness they emit. Salsa is sometimes a partner dance that generally moves to the beat of salsa music, but also has performance merit in its own right. Over the years, the sounds of salsa and the steps of the dance as early as the 40s, where further cultivation took place during the 1960 and 70s.

As you begin to explore the zeal and beauty salsa dancing, there are several different ways to approach this fascinating world of self-expression. The culture surrounding salsa also takes sign from the styles of mambo and rumba. The classic instruments accompanying salsa dance includes the thumping of congas, blaring trumpets, cowbells, timbales, and claves.