What makes Your Salsa, Your Salsa?

[ssjss]

Is there any other dance styles that you mix into your Salsa. Doing a little Bolero in the beginning of a romatic Salsa. Throwing in a Gancho maybe. What do you do to make your Salsa your Salsa. What experainces out side of Salsa get put in to it.

 

[thespina13]

I always put a little traditional Greek arm movement into my dancing, as well as a little bellydancing stuff. I'm also really fond of flamenco-like movements. The rest is whatever the music tells me to do. Oh and I love putting a little cha cha cha wiggle here and there.

 

[Sagitta]

Anything that I feel like...ballroom...at...swing...and I hope to do a lot more other dances to put more into it.

 

[africana]

Is there any other dance styles that you mix into your Salsa. Doing a little Bolero in the beginning of a romatic Salsa. Throwing in a Gancho maybe. What do you do to make your Salsa your Salsa. What experainces out side of Salsa get put in to it.

Mostly afrocuban (rumba/guaguanco, orisha dances), and african dance & derivatives like bomba, brazillian samba, afro-peruvian, and most recently, Jazz
People also say i've got some hip-hop-like stuff

 

[Sobrero]

I put some son and cuban rumba as well. Sometimes i add a bit of Greek "tsifteteli" since i am Greek ,but i do not feel that i have found a style that suits me yet. I am still searching!!
I am interested to see what others have to say in this thread...

 

[thespina13]

Another Greek! T_E... did you know about Sobrero? We can have a Greek girls salsa party one of these days.

 

[Sobrero]

Another Greek! T_E... did you know about Sobrero? We can have a Greek girls salsa party one of these days.

Actually T_E is my best friend!!! LOL thats how i discovered DF!!!

Sobrero

 

[Twilight_Elena]

Yeah, I'm responsible for Sobrero. We started dancing together. Now our dancing has evolved seperately (she's more into salsa, I'm more into ballroom) but we're still best mates. And yeah, I introduced her to DF.

T_E

 

[MacMoto]

Is there any other dance styles that you mix into your Salsa.

No, not really -- I don't do any other dance styles to speak of (I've tried a little bit of tango, cuban rumba, son, orishas dances, bugalu and belly dance, but not enough to have any significant influence on my salsa), so my salsa is what I learned through salsa. I do rumba when the music contains a rumba section, but that's straight rumba guaguanco (at least that's my intention), not rumba-salsa mix.

I dance LA on1, NY on2 and Cuban salsa, and my aim is to have three distinct, authentic styles that yet all look mine.

 

[sweavo]

Not exactly styles, though a bit of Rumba and any other moves from my chequered dance history will get thrown in (with the possible exception of the Robot).

I love to use character stuff in the dancing, taking the music and the partner and spinning up a bit of a fantasy world to roleplay... A moonlit terrace? A dirty backstreet? Top hat and tails? Sandals and beard?

 

[Sabor]

talent, personality and ways of connection.

 

[Big10]

Is there any other dance styles that you mix into your Salsa. Doing a little Bolero in the beginning of a romatic Salsa. Throwing in a Gancho maybe. What do you do to make your Salsa your Salsa. What experainces out side of Salsa get put in to it.

Everything. I'll mix rotational Cuban-style moves with slot moves. I've taken lessons in Swing and Tango, and I grew up doing disco/club/hip-hop, so parts of those dances will get tossed in the mix. If I see something I like in a musical, dance movie, or music video, I'll try to adapt that, too. I took a really good music appreciation class in college, which helps me to hear certain things in the music that others might not hear, and that changes the way I react during a song.

So, like I said.....everything. Salsa really does lend itself to combining a wide variety of influences. The fact that people are exposed to different influences in different amounts, is probably what makes for differences in the final result on the dance floor -- my dancing included.

 

[amrimi]

... other moves from my chequered dance history will get thrown in (with the possible exception of the Robot).

I think I saw a video of Al somewhere around where he was trowing that into his Salsa. Looked pretty cool actually. So no exception neccessary. :artsy:

 

[BugBear]

Well that would be me. Just beeing there. Smiling. Paying attention...