salsa dance
Cuban couples' movement
Salsa dance is a partnered Latin dance characterized by quick footwork, hip movement, and turns, performed to salsa music's syncopated rhythms.
The basic step follows an eight-count pattern with a distinctive pause.
Salsa emerged from Cuban son and other Caribbean styles, developing regional variations in New York, Los Angeles, and Colombia: We're taking salsa lessons, They met at a salsa club.
- shinesEmits or reflects radiance
- Latin rhythmSyncopated Afro-Caribbean beat
- improvisationSpontaneous, unplanned creation
- percussionSound through impact
- basic stepSimplest unit of choreography
mambo · Celia Cruz · footwork · social dancing · dance floor · Cuba · timbales · Puerto Rico · balance · syncopation · styling · conga drums · coordination · cha-cha-cha · timing · posture · clave · nightclub
- Latin AmericaArgentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Cuba
- social dancesocial dancing, dance classes, dance schools, dance studios, dance floors
salsa dancewaltz
Dance in three-quarter time
slow waltz · ballet · tai chi · slow dance · adagio
salsa danceIrish step dance
Celtic percussive folk form
Morris dancing · Viennese waltz · ballet · square dance · polka
salsa danceballet
Classical dance on pointe
classical ballet · court dance · line dance · synchronized swimming · marching