As some request to see this couple clips more in the web from our dance company Ritno y Salsa: Here is in this clip, Abel Pena and Zulmara Torres, The 3 times Salsa world Champions, 2005, 2006, and 2007 in Portland Oregon performance, what an excellent performance!!!! By Vito El Salsero from Ritmo y Salsa team……
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Join Ariel & Anna as they discuss and perform the basic steps of salsa! If you’ve never danced salsa before this video blog should inspire you to lace up those dance shoes and hit the dance floor. Que viva la salsa!
Music provided by Orquesta Borinquen – one of the the Bay Area’s most prominent salsa bands. Check out their site at www.borinquensalsa.com
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THE FIRST TUNE IS: “Cogele el Golpe” (Grab the Beat) by Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez… THE SECOND TUNE IS: ‘Vitamina’ by Noro Morales… THE THIRD TUNE IS: ‘Mambo N úmero 8′ by Damaso Perez Prado…
Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B, rock and roll and soul with mambo and son montuno. Boogaloo entered the mainstream through the American Bandstand television program.
The boogaloo dance was loose and interpretive in style. Early Boogaloo used a twelve-step sequence that was later sped up into a thirty-step sequence. The most common musical feature was a mid-tempo, looping melody that doubled as the anchoring rhythm, often played on piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy, anthematic chorus, was another distinguishing feature, especially in comparison to more instrumental dances like the mambo, guajira and guaracha.
Nowadays, the footwork is similar to Pachanga, but tends to be fast and bouncy like jive and also usually counted over an eight beat pattern. In the 1950s and 60s, African Americans in the United States listened to a number of styles of music, including jump blues, R&B and doo wop. Puerto Ricans in New York City shared in these tastes, but also listened to genres like mambo or chachacha. There was much intermixing of Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans, and African Americans, and clubs that catered to both groups tried to find musical common ground to attract both. Boogaloo was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American R&B/soul.
Boogaloo can be seen as “the first Nuyorican music” (René López), and has been called “the greatest potential that (Latinos) had to really cross over in terms of music” (Izzy Sanabria). Styles like doo wop also left a sizable infuence, through Tony Pabón (of Pete Rodríguez Band), Bobby Marín, King Nando, Johnny Colón and his vocalists Tony Rojas and Tito Ramos. Puerto Ricans (Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni) played a foundational role in the major doo wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Herman Santiago was the author of the groups #1 “hit” “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”.
Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaria’s performance of the Herbie Hancock piece “Watermelon Man” and Ray Barretto’s “El Watusi”. Inspired by these two successes, a number of bands began imitating their infectious rhythms (which were Latinized R&B), intense conga rhythms and clever novelty lyrics. Some long-time veteran Latin musicians played an occasional boogaloo number, including Perez Prado and Tito Puente, but most of the performers were teenagers like The Latin Souls, The Lat-Teens, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba Sextet, and The Latinaires.
The older generation of Latin musicians have even been accused of initially using their influence to repress this youth-oriented movement. The term boogaloo was probably coined in about 1966 by Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. The biggest boogaloo hit of the 60s was “Bang Bang” by the Joe Cuba Sextet, which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the United States in 1966 when it sold over one million copies. Other hits included Johnny Colón’s “Boogaloo Blues,” Pete Rodríguez’s “I Like It Like That,” and Hector Rivera’s “At the Party”. Boogaloo also spread to Puerto Rico, where top band El Gran Combo released some material. Though the dance craze was over by the turn of the decade, boogaloo was popular enough that almost every major and minor Latin dance artist of the time recorded at least a few boogaloos on their albums.
The same year as Joe Cuba’s pop success, 1966, saw the closing of New York City’s Palladium Ballroom, a well-known venue that had been the home of big band mambo for many years. The closing marked the end of mainstream mambo, and boogaloo ruled the Latin charts for about two years before salsa music began to take over.
Boogaloo remains extremely popular to this day in Cali, Colombia, where the genre is played extensively, along with salsa and pachanga, in various FM and AM radio stations and hundreds of dance clubs. The Caleños also speed up Cha Cha Cha tunes, from 33 to 45 RPM, to create the boogaloo sound & rhythm to match the city’s fast dance style.
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The Semi-Final Dance,the Final at the Palace and the Last One at the Rosa Negra.
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Looking to start Salsa dancing? In this free dance lesson, learn how to do 360 salsa steps with professional salsa dancers.
Expert: Eddie Santos
Contact: www.dflatindance.com
Bio: Eddie Santos and Maria Ivanova are artistic directors and founders of “Drugaya Forma” Dance Team. The “Duo” has been teaching and performing together since 2003.
Filmmaker: joseph wilkins
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Jlo dancing salsa with Albert Torres on the Keenan Wayans show!! just look at her,………
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Dancing video of new dancing with the stars pro cutie Chelsie Hightower. Enjoy!
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Mens styling for salsa dancing has arrived! Once you have a solid basis for your basic dance steps, the next step is to be able to do variations of it. In this salsa dance video, we teach ways to spice up your salsa by adding style to your cross body leads. Anthony will teach you how to do a monkey move and a hook step into a cross body lead, and at the end how to add a shimmy.
For more videos: http://videos.addicted2salsa.com/lesson/mens-styling-for-salsa-dancing
Duration : 0:7:37
Mike Seater & Ashley Leggat take a Salsa Dancing Lesson while the camera follows them around.
211 LWD Podcast.
2006.
(Re-Uploaded)
72,741.
Family.ca
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Salsa Dance styling for ladies.
http://addicted2salsa.com/2009/06/21/ladies-styling-for-salsa-dancing
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