ballroom salsa?

[tangotime]

MUSIC, MUSIC, MUSIC. You must listen to the music, it is the key. Ballroom dancers have too much to worry about and too little time. Club dancers have nothing to worry about other than leading the lady and listening to the music. Their movements are sloppy, their feet just do as they please, but yet, the look is amazing and the girl spins around so many different ways sometimes I wonder how it is possible to lead that. But then I break it down, figure it out, and with time can reproduce that look.

What I can say is that if you take a trained ballroom dancer and make them learn a bunch of salsa moves and styling, then stick them in salsa clubs 3 nights a week, in a month that ballroom dancer will be able to outdance pretty much any latino freestyle salsa dancer.

Nik-- the problem? -- most TEACHERS do not understand the music !!-- not only in salsa,butmany dances .

If I say " Call and Response ", to many of my Eng. colleagues ( also Amer. ) they havent a clue what the issue is .

I would disagree with the " any " club dancer statement .-- Could name several that would more than hold their own ( Frankie Martinez for one )

 

[IsaacAltman]

Salsa dancers have evolved over time. Now they are looking for more technique as they have pretty much exhausted everything else. Take a look at any major Salsa contest compared to only 5 years ago and you will see the difference including the costuming is looking more like Latin dancers in the Ballroom world than ever!