borikensalsero
Moderator
The 10 Commandments
1)Thou Shalt dance with your partner
While I think the music is of outmost importance in Salsa, the ultimate feat of salsa dancing is indeed dancing with your partner! For as the band plays with each other creating the music for us to feel as the creation of many sounds into one band, one music, one song, so must the couple using each other to mesh into one another and “indirectly” become the last instruments of the band. Hence, I must agree with SDsalsaguy and stress partners becoming one (dancing with each other) over any other. After all, partner dancing is what Salsa is in us to be, if missing of either instrument (lead or follow) in the dance, dancing we are not.
2)Thou Salseros & Salseras must dance in rhythm with the music.
Rhythm I stress second for to dance salsa we must dance to the rhythm, if rhythm we are dancing not, then impossible will commandment #3 be. Rhythm here I mean it as not numbers but rather the use of commandment #1 to feel a rhythm followed by the couple within the music that causes the creation of commandment #3. Without #1, there is no #2, and without #2 there is no dance, hence, no #3.
3)Thou Salsero must lead their Salsera properly & make her feel like she is the best dancer in the world while they are dancing
The lady, as the representation of all desire in a music that seeks to elevate two people into the gates of heaven, must become the world. For if the leader seeks to elevate the dance to pure ecstasy the queen being enthroned must become, for there can be no king in a queen-less Kingdome… and feeling is the only way to create a queen from a princes that feels not ready.
4)Thou Shalt be kind to beginners, for verily were thou once a beginner thyself
The sing of a successful kingdom with a fruitful future is the nurturing of its community! The seamless incorporation of all members from king to peasant to feel as if no part is better than one another, a community where the peasant is as important to the success of the kingdom as the king, knights, and clergy—a utopian society where the whole will always be less without any of its parts, not the sign of a new whole. A community that embraces the new as if he or she were the old!
5) Thou Salseros & Salseras in their local Salsa communities must dance with people beyond their cliques & inner circle of friends. Salsa is a dance of conversation and Thou Salseros & Salseras communicate to every one they dance with.
The interaction between upper-middle-lower classes in a kingdom in search of a future must at all times be present, for the casting of its members yields the beginnings of prejudices possibly causing misunderstanding and ultimately resulting in a civil disarray and war. Difference must be stressed as the uniqueness we all accept as the creation and what keeps this kingdom fertile.
6) Thou Shalt honor the physical boundaries of thy partner at all times and treat them with respect.
A kingdom with no regard to thy neighbor can only lead to attitudes that eventually care not for commandment #2, hence the beginning of destruction and all social order as established by the commandments! For we must always remember first respect to thy self, is the respect to thy neighbor! For they shall always want to be treated like thou shalt want thy parents to be treated.
7) Thou Shalt Practice Floorcraft and not step on thy neighbor's toes
The when, why, and how of all members of the kingdom must be of outmost importance in the creation of movement, for the destruction of little toes can result in kingdom not able to join the beats of percussion as its members are unable to search a fulfillment… Floor-craft creates the infrastructure that will forever guide its riders.
8- Thou Shalt proclaim the glories of Salsa to thy friends and get them into a one-hour lesson at a club.
A mean to spread the word of this utopian kingdom is to let others experience what here has been created. By bringing thy friends to this world they shall see utopia in present manifestation, ultimately denying not what they see and desiring to be part of this very world of which only their experience of shall be proclamation enough to join. For the members of this kingdom shall not seek with force to display a truth that only needs experiencing!
9) Thou DF Salseros must dance with Thy DF Salseras during our lifetimes.
A kingdom where members do not seek to experience each other is kingdom not at all, but mockery of one. Must we seek to share our very reality with each other :wink:
10) Thou Salseros & Salseras must hear their clave at all times
While understanding that the Clave isn’t audible at all times, we must strive to hear it, feel it, for the very creation of the dance we desire is built upon the very roots of the clave. Salsa would be not with out clave, therefore clave must we become. Time is of no factor, but rather the search for one, take as long as it may need, for the longing is for becoming not how fast we get there...
1)Thou Shalt dance with your partner
While I think the music is of outmost importance in Salsa, the ultimate feat of salsa dancing is indeed dancing with your partner! For as the band plays with each other creating the music for us to feel as the creation of many sounds into one band, one music, one song, so must the couple using each other to mesh into one another and “indirectly” become the last instruments of the band. Hence, I must agree with SDsalsaguy and stress partners becoming one (dancing with each other) over any other. After all, partner dancing is what Salsa is in us to be, if missing of either instrument (lead or follow) in the dance, dancing we are not.
2)Thou Salseros & Salseras must dance in rhythm with the music.
Rhythm I stress second for to dance salsa we must dance to the rhythm, if rhythm we are dancing not, then impossible will commandment #3 be. Rhythm here I mean it as not numbers but rather the use of commandment #1 to feel a rhythm followed by the couple within the music that causes the creation of commandment #3. Without #1, there is no #2, and without #2 there is no dance, hence, no #3.
3)Thou Salsero must lead their Salsera properly & make her feel like she is the best dancer in the world while they are dancing
The lady, as the representation of all desire in a music that seeks to elevate two people into the gates of heaven, must become the world. For if the leader seeks to elevate the dance to pure ecstasy the queen being enthroned must become, for there can be no king in a queen-less Kingdome… and feeling is the only way to create a queen from a princes that feels not ready.
4)Thou Shalt be kind to beginners, for verily were thou once a beginner thyself
The sing of a successful kingdom with a fruitful future is the nurturing of its community! The seamless incorporation of all members from king to peasant to feel as if no part is better than one another, a community where the peasant is as important to the success of the kingdom as the king, knights, and clergy—a utopian society where the whole will always be less without any of its parts, not the sign of a new whole. A community that embraces the new as if he or she were the old!
5) Thou Salseros & Salseras in their local Salsa communities must dance with people beyond their cliques & inner circle of friends. Salsa is a dance of conversation and Thou Salseros & Salseras communicate to every one they dance with.
The interaction between upper-middle-lower classes in a kingdom in search of a future must at all times be present, for the casting of its members yields the beginnings of prejudices possibly causing misunderstanding and ultimately resulting in a civil disarray and war. Difference must be stressed as the uniqueness we all accept as the creation and what keeps this kingdom fertile.
6) Thou Shalt honor the physical boundaries of thy partner at all times and treat them with respect.
A kingdom with no regard to thy neighbor can only lead to attitudes that eventually care not for commandment #2, hence the beginning of destruction and all social order as established by the commandments! For we must always remember first respect to thy self, is the respect to thy neighbor! For they shall always want to be treated like thou shalt want thy parents to be treated.
7) Thou Shalt Practice Floorcraft and not step on thy neighbor's toes
The when, why, and how of all members of the kingdom must be of outmost importance in the creation of movement, for the destruction of little toes can result in kingdom not able to join the beats of percussion as its members are unable to search a fulfillment… Floor-craft creates the infrastructure that will forever guide its riders.
8- Thou Shalt proclaim the glories of Salsa to thy friends and get them into a one-hour lesson at a club.
A mean to spread the word of this utopian kingdom is to let others experience what here has been created. By bringing thy friends to this world they shall see utopia in present manifestation, ultimately denying not what they see and desiring to be part of this very world of which only their experience of shall be proclamation enough to join. For the members of this kingdom shall not seek with force to display a truth that only needs experiencing!
9) Thou DF Salseros must dance with Thy DF Salseras during our lifetimes.
A kingdom where members do not seek to experience each other is kingdom not at all, but mockery of one. Must we seek to share our very reality with each other :wink:
10) Thou Salseros & Salseras must hear their clave at all times
While understanding that the Clave isn’t audible at all times, we must strive to hear it, feel it, for the very creation of the dance we desire is built upon the very roots of the clave. Salsa would be not with out clave, therefore clave must we become. Time is of no factor, but rather the search for one, take as long as it may need, for the longing is for becoming not how fast we get there...
