What's so good about salsa, eh?

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MadamSamba

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Thought that might capture your attention! :bouncy:

I don't ask to be convinced (I'm suitably addicted), but was wondering what everybody else loves about it?

Having been introduced to dancing through ballroom and swing (as it seems many of you guys have too) I love the freedom and spontenaity of salsa and the music...well, that speaks for itself.

As a girl, you just follow. The challenge is to keep up, but to make it look fluid. The second I saw it, I was smitten and have never looked back. Just wondering what everybody else loves about salsa compared to other styles of dance they've seen or experienced.
 
This is a great topic! I hope you're ready for the outpouring of sheer love and emotion you're going to get! :lol: :D
 
Salsa may be the one I'm the least proficient at of the dances I enjoy, but I love it. I think I need to learn and have more variety in moves and patterns since Salsa music tends to be the most lengthy.

The studio I attend is suppose to do another Salsathon next month. At least they are going to try; the instructor who organized it the last two years is no longer with the studio, but I think they can and will succeed in the endeavor. :D
 
I like the way you rotate partners at the classes.

The way you lead the lady’s and dance together like its
something rehearsed and planned for hours.

I like the dance can be used outside the studio.

I like the atmosphere, the dancers,
and that you don’t need to drink to dance.

Most of all, it’s FUN, and you dance together.
(Not like the discothèques solo dance trips).
 
My loving for salsa is outside the scope of physical pleasure. It goes somewhat beyond the realms of the material and into the spiritual.

The percussion salsa uses was used and is still used today in santeria. It is used to invoke the saints, speaking in english, percussion instruments are used to speak to the soul.

I love salsa because it takes me away from the world that is physically real and sends me into a soul soothing journey. The feeling is only increased by the sense that my partner has been able to take the journey with me and exprecience what very few have come to understand as two souls becoming an infinte one during a dance. Touch doesn't feel like touch, sweat doesn't feel like sweat, the only way to know that my body is still here is when the music ends and my soul sighs in sorrow.

While my presence on the dancefloor is physical the love salsa and I share can only be attained in a world where form becomes the form-less and music to the ears the heartbeat of soul. I love because salsa never gave me a choice to feel physical pleasure, it instead gifted me with the love of knowing my soul before my time in this phsyical world passes. :mrgreen:
 
Just reading an older thread & found yet another beautiful one by Boriken :D !

I love the way how all my senses become 'awake' the second salsa music is played. My soul gets to come out and play......

I miss my days in NY. I was staying in Brooklyn in a Puerto Rican neibourhood. There was salsa music oooozing out of every window, 24/7. I heard it in my sleep, in my dreams. I was so completely SEDUCED, and those days I floated, danced & breathed in a hightened state of trance. (so much so I did not do any of the visitor thingies one must do in NY :oops: )

Oooooh....
 
salsachinita said:
Just reading an older thread & found yet another beautiful one by Boriken :D !

I love the way how all my senses become 'awake' the second salsa music is played. My soul gets to come out and play......

I miss my days in NY. I was staying in Brooklyn in a Puerto Rican neibourhood. There was salsa music oooozing out of every window, 24/7. I heard it in my sleep, in my dreams. I was so completely SEDUCED, and those days I floated, danced & breathed in a hightened state of trance. (so much so I did not do any of the visitor thingies one must do in NY :oops: )

Oooooh....
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Two things: one -- Boriken is a poet.

Two. The other day, I was at the post office, and there was a gentleman sitting outside in his car, listneing to salsa. I came SO CLOSE to asking for a dance. 9 oclock in the morning, outside of the post office! Salsa is a seductive thing! The only reason I didn't ask was because his girlfriend, for whom he was waiting, might not understand. and she looked pretty mean! :oops: :lol:
 
pygmalion said:
Two. The other day, I was at the post office, and there was a gentleman sitting outside in his car, listneing to salsa. I came SO CLOSE to asking for a dance. 9 oclock in the morning, outside of the post office! Salsa is a seductive thing! The only reason I didn't ask was because his girlfriend, for whom he was waiting, might not understand. and she looked pretty mean! :oops: :lol:
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I know EXCACTLY what you mean :lol: Urges like that happens to me all the time.....! :wink:

.........salsa, anyone.....?
 
salsachinita said:
pygmalion said:
Two things: one -- Boriken is a poet.
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So right, Jenn. :D
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pygmalion, salsachinita, thank you so very much for the kind words. It is truly an honor to read you guys write beautiful words about my writting. There is just so much red I can turn. Soon, I will expolde from the heat radiated by my face caused by your words. :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops:

Thank you
 
I should start playing my headphones louder so that random salsera's will start asking me to dance :D

I can not fully explain what it is about Salsa that has captured me. I did not start out addicted, I started out wanting to learn but it was under control. Then I started having a few of those dances, the ones where you feel a perfect connection with a partner and the music. Where every move you make is perfectly followed and perfectly follows the music. At this point I started feeling the addiction and could not get enough. Since then my goal has been to learn how to create that high on the dance floor again.
 
I can't flow like boriken, but I'll say my piece :lol: For me salsa represents all the things I love in life: Music, dancing, playfullness, sexuality, unity. It's something that no matter how much you don't have in common with another, when you find they are a salsero/a there's an instant connection. It's a magical journey I get to make multiple times a night with various traveling partners.
 
While I'm still a beginner to Salsa and struggling with lead, frame and how to move...I must say its my favorite style of dance. I listen to the music everyday...on my MP3 player...streaming Salsa at work in the background...I just love to hear it. Whenever I hear that rhythm...my body just starts to feel it...I want to learn and hear more...to actually become good enough to dance it well.

I look forward to more Salsa journeys... :)

SG
 
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