Salsa the number one latin dance?

[Spitfire]

I'm inclined to believe so, but what's funny is that not much Salsa is played at any general ballroom dance I attend. :?

Cha-Cha and Rumba are the most common at these events. Now, anytime I go to something that's mainly latin Salsa is predominant.

[SDsalsaguy]

I'm inclined to believe so, but what's funny is that not much Salsa is played at any general ballroom dance I attend. :?
That's because salsa is not a balloom dance. Yes, some ballroom dancers are also great salsa dancers (Tony Meredith & Enio Cordoba being two top examples). This being said, however, many ballroom studios and teachers who don't really know salsa still teach it because there's a demand for it.

[brujo]

This might not be true. Salsa is popular in the US, Cuba, Venezuala Puerto Rico and slowly gaining ground in other countries. But go to Chile, Peru, Mexico or Central America and you'll see that salsa / mambo is not really danced commonly. Instead, you have anything from cumbia to samba to merengue to bachata dominating the local scenes.

They don't play country music in dance clubs, does this make it not popular?

[borikensalsero]

Is it just me or does this place seem to get a make over every 2 days?

As much as I would love to say, yes salsa is the number one latin dance. I can't :cry:

Although salsa is very popular in places like NYC, PR, Cuba, Cali, Chicago... Those very same places dance other dances more than Salsa. For example in PR, relatively speaking very, few people know how to Salsa, and to find a stricktly salsa club, you literally have to be in the salsa scene. Where as merengue everyone does it, everyone plays it. In NY City clubs and people who dance merengue out-number by a vast majority those who dance salsa. If the two "meccas" of salsa don't do it, I can't believe other places do it more.

[DanceMentor]

Here in Atlanta, you usually see more people on the dance floor when they play Merengue, but usually the moves are really basic. It seems like their are more showy dancers when salsa is played (but there are some showy dancers who dance Merengue too)

[borikensalsero]

Here in Atlanta, you usually see more people on the dance floor when they play Merengue, but usually the moves are really basic. It seems like their are more showy dancers when salsa is played (but there are some showy dancers who dance Merengue too)

That is usually the case, merengue is usually a grinding kind of dance. very close bodies, lots of hip swing and less turns. I actually practice my salsa steps to merengue. The repetiveness of the beat bores me, so I have to compensate somehow.

[Salcero]

I'm inclined to believe so, but what's funny is that not much Salsa is played at any general ballroom dance I attend. :?

Cha-Cha and Rumba are the most common at these events. Now, anytime I go to something that's mainly latin Salsa is predominant.

The definition I've heard of Salsa music by some people I wonder if one day Salsa won't be considered Latin by the majority of people that "dance salsa."

Is tango considered a Latin dance?

[tangotime]

Salsa is making headway to displace merg. as # 1-- --someone said that many " Latinos " do not dance salsa so true -- many of my students are Hispanic who wish to learn salsa --- most s. and central amer. countries are more involved in native cultural dances ( samba-- tango -- cumbia -- bachata etc ) and -- by the way -- tango is a spanish dance -- but -- is in the ballroom section of all dance schools and at world comp. level-- the Argentine tango in its purest form-- Milonga and salon styles-- have their own champions ( as does Mambo when weeded out of the American Rythm section ) at the U.S. championships in Miami every yr.