Cist
New Member
first of all, great news group, nice people, no rude statements, that's pretty unique!! :applause:
maybe i should introduce myself a little bit: i'm 28 and live in Vienna. i have started with salsa about 3 years ago. it's always hard to
rank yourself but i would say when dancing la-style i am at a point where i know more than enough turnpatterns and my actual step in learning process is on one side to flavor the salsa basics with different styles (like popping/locking - hip hop) and on the other side to let the music determine how i am dancing i.e. dancing to the music not over it. Anyhow there are lots and lots of things to learn, but that's also the fun part !!! :lol:
one interesting part for me about dancing, is not to tell the partner verbally what to do while we are dancing. when i ask an unknown person for a dance i will always start with an easy cuban style salsa and raise the level bitwise as we are dancing.
you will pretty soon get a feeling for how advanced your partner is dancing or in which style he/she prefers. then the second dance, assuming both of us enjoyed the dance and the dancing level was satisfactorily (well at this point i have to admit, that i only like to dance la-style with partners who are capable of doing so - i am not talking about combinations or turn patterns, just advanced basics, e.g. watch and catch my hands, do exactly what she is told *sounds funny when writing* but also to be able to dance by herself when it's shine time), could be la-style salsa just to see what happens. I mean there is nothing wrong with dancing cuban style all night, especially here in Vienna only few people dance la-style and very very few dance la-style such way, that you wanna look at them for the entire dance.
but there are though 2 different kind of dances in "my world" and I like both.
cuban style: fun evening, getting new people to know, chatting a little bit while dancing, teach sbdy who is new to salsa, etc ...it's more the social part - you can't really mess it up because of the constant flow.
la style: my favourite, very cool and smooth looking dance if you dance it right, you can express yourself, bring in your own style, hit the breaks in the music (that's actual what makes a dance look beautifull) - but it's also not that easy to pass critcal observers when aside of you an average cuban couple dances.
these were just some thoughts, i would be interested to read, how your approach is, when dancing with unknown people. 8)
cheers
maybe i should introduce myself a little bit: i'm 28 and live in Vienna. i have started with salsa about 3 years ago. it's always hard to
rank yourself but i would say when dancing la-style i am at a point where i know more than enough turnpatterns and my actual step in learning process is on one side to flavor the salsa basics with different styles (like popping/locking - hip hop) and on the other side to let the music determine how i am dancing i.e. dancing to the music not over it. Anyhow there are lots and lots of things to learn, but that's also the fun part !!! :lol:
one interesting part for me about dancing, is not to tell the partner verbally what to do while we are dancing. when i ask an unknown person for a dance i will always start with an easy cuban style salsa and raise the level bitwise as we are dancing.
you will pretty soon get a feeling for how advanced your partner is dancing or in which style he/she prefers. then the second dance, assuming both of us enjoyed the dance and the dancing level was satisfactorily (well at this point i have to admit, that i only like to dance la-style with partners who are capable of doing so - i am not talking about combinations or turn patterns, just advanced basics, e.g. watch and catch my hands, do exactly what she is told *sounds funny when writing* but also to be able to dance by herself when it's shine time), could be la-style salsa just to see what happens. I mean there is nothing wrong with dancing cuban style all night, especially here in Vienna only few people dance la-style and very very few dance la-style such way, that you wanna look at them for the entire dance.
but there are though 2 different kind of dances in "my world" and I like both.
cuban style: fun evening, getting new people to know, chatting a little bit while dancing, teach sbdy who is new to salsa, etc ...it's more the social part - you can't really mess it up because of the constant flow.
la style: my favourite, very cool and smooth looking dance if you dance it right, you can express yourself, bring in your own style, hit the breaks in the music (that's actual what makes a dance look beautifull) - but it's also not that easy to pass critcal observers when aside of you an average cuban couple dances.
these were just some thoughts, i would be interested to read, how your approach is, when dancing with unknown people. 8)
cheers
