SALSA DANCING C&J
13th September
We’re dancing Salsa @ CCL.Salsa Dancing L.A. Style P.2 by Brain Labor
23rd August
Salsa Dancing. This is a re-edit of this great footage shot by Brainlabor at the west coast salsa congress. Thanks to Artchie Gomez for allowing me to use this great footage. Check this out: Brainlabor.tv
Duration : 0:4:40
Cuban Salsa Dance Styling – Havana, Cuba
21st August
Clip of the Boogalu Productions DVD “Mueve La Cintura”. Explore from over 50 videos on our Cuban Music & Dance Video Channel: http://www.boogalu-video.com
Duration : 0:0:58
PASOFino Latin Dance Studio Salsa Lessons in Atlanta
17th August
http://www.PASOFinopro.com
PASOFino Latin Dance Studio Teaching Salsa “On1″ and “On2″ Lessons in Atlanta. Salsa Music our Passion. Meet the dancers: Jose, Lucy, Connie, Dennis and Enrique in our journey to the stage and sharing our experiences!
Duration : 0:4:32
Salsa Dance Exploration with Ariel & Anna
15th August
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
Duration : 0:7:31
Amazing Dancing Kid – Colombia – Salsa – Mambo – Son Montuno
11th August
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.
Duration : 0:6:42
2005 USABDA Nationals Champ Latin Dance-On
3rd August
2005 USABDA Nationals
August 13, 2005
Championship Latin
Dance-On of the 7 Finalists
Duration : 0:7:16
Learn How to Dance Salsa Part 1 with Clara
25th July
Teaches several steps in the salsa. This is a great beginner learn how to dance salsa free video.
Duration : 0:9:58
Salsa Review . The London’s Latin Cabaret.
25th July
www.latinculture.net
Salsa Review. The London’s Latin Cabaret
by Cesar- Ancizar Velasquez (videos)
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S A L S A R E V I E W
The London’s Latin Cabaret
Not to be missed!
For the first time you will have a chance to see an artistic production involving London’s favourite salsa band led by Luis Lema and Salsa Fire Dance Company. It will be presenting new hot choreographies with its famous “Descargas” Cali Style set to rhythms of Salsa, Mambo, Cha cha and Latin Jazz. Creators of the show – Cesar – Ancizar Velasquez and Carolina Gonzalez invite you to celebrate the birth of the first real Latin Cabaret in London: SALSA REVIEW
Welcome to an exciting night full of sensuality, Color and wonder!
4 Wild Court, London WC2B 4AU. 2 min from Holborn Tube Station.
Program:
- Salsa Class 9 to 10 pm
- Show: Part I 10.30 pm
- Show Part II 11.30 pm
- Live music and Djs till late
£12 at the door
Limited places, save money by booking your tickets now on:
http://www.latinculture.net
Duration : 0:0:36
Osbanis and Rafael with Farita – social dancing cuban salsa
20th July
Osbanis one of the UK’s best cuban teachers and dancers is filmed social dancing dancing with Farita to adalberto alvarez’s “deja la mala noche”. Watch out for Rafael’s cameo. Check out osbanis.com for more of the same!!!
Duration : 0:3:53
