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This is what it's all about,... eat your heart out!!
https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison! Just love it!
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Don't blame you loving it!
But that is Cali - Colombian salsa, which is all about turns and amazing footwork. You will never, ever see it on SCD. Much too 'foreign' for the ballroom crowd.
It was the first style of salsa I was taught. And then I learned Cuban salsa. Another style altogether. Not ever seen on SCD either! Sadly the 'salsa' they dance on SCD is cross-body salsambachanotsurewhatwearedoing style. I live in hope
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And please will someone make that compulsory viewing for all those deluded parents who are sending in those gruesome videos of their little darlings failing to dance or even be funny. Videos which, it seems, everyone on Strictly either has to go 'awwwwww' to or clap like seals.
I know, I know. Herod is my middle name. |
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a bit weird.
i prefer to see children doing expressive dance. |
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This is what footwork is about, Alison! Just love it! ![]() ![]() Here's some more examples of the style. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jCwcfRegrNc https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=oRDD9YTV8ts https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BhadR03Nfpo |
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I general I don't like to watch children perform but this is amazing. Quote:
But that is Cali - Colombian salsa, which is all about turns and amazing footwork. You will never, ever see it on SCD. Much too 'foreign' for the ballroom crowd.
It was the first style of salsa I was taught. And then I learned Cuban salsa. Another style altogether. Not ever seen on SCD either! Sadly the 'salsa' they dance on SCD is cross-body salsambachanotsurewhatwearedoing style. I live in hope ![]() They do SAWL Sir I learnt Cali Salsa as well in 1992/3 Janette is pretty good at salsa https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0tOmZJNoc |
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But that is Cali - Colombian salsa, which is all about turns and amazing footwork. You will never, ever see it on SCD. Much too 'foreign' for the ballroom crowd.
It was the first style of salsa I was taught. And then I learned Cuban salsa. Another style altogether. Not ever seen on SCD either! Sadly the 'salsa' they dance on SCD is cross-body salsambachanotsurewhatwearedoing style. I live in hope ![]() ![]() ![]() BIB. If only it were cross body/NY/LA I could live with it. Love Cali, Love Cuban.
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Janette is pretty good at salsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0tOmZJNoc[/quote] Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do. |
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Janette is pretty good at salsa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0tOmZJNoc Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do. They need to bring in salsa teachers/choreographers to help the other pros. |
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Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do.
They need to bring in salsa teachers/choreographers to help the other pros.[/quote] Deleted Last edited by An Thropologist : 25-10-2014 at 10:43. Reason: Formatting error |
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Yes Janette is great but that's the first decent salsa we've had in ages on strictly and she's of Cuban heritage so it's in her blood.
They need to bring in salsa teachers/choreographers to help the other pros. Hurrumph You wouldn't say that if you had danced with the Cuban I danced with last weekend.
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Hurrumph
You wouldn't say that if you had danced with the Cuban I danced with last weekend. ![]() I think you've got a good chance of being a decent mover with natural rhythm if you hail from Latin America though - dancing seems to be a big part of the culture there
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This is what footwork is about, Alison! Just love it! ![]()
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Lol well perhaps not every Cuban
I think you've got a good chance of being a decent mover with natural rhythm if you hail from Latin America though - dancing seems to be a big part of the culture there ![]() ![]() Dancing does seem to be very much part of the Latino culture. Many of my Latino friends say they never learned to dance. This is probabIy their perception, but of course they did. They learned by copying older relatives and dancing with their mums and dads, aunts and uncles, neighbours, older siblings etc at family gatherings and neighbourhood parties etc. In my experience they don't perceive at some big deal that involves choreography, costumes, lights etc. To them its just what you do, like us popping the kettle on when we have company. My OH is not Latino but he is Caribbean, where spontaneous dancing seems to prevail also. I have been to dance classes with him and he is utterly hopeless at picking up the content from the verbal descriptions. Yet he can stand and watch someone on the dance floor and copy them almost instantly. |
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The salsa they dance on Strictly always seems to me to be like a social dance as opposed to "real" salsa, in much the same way as someone who has never learnt to dance might do what they think is a jive, but is actually a miss-mash of swing, rock, and 'make-it-up-as-you-go-along'!!!
Not that, at a social dance, there is anything wrong with either, so long as people enjoy dancing it doesn't matter, but if they're going to do it on Strictly, they should try and get it right. |
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That's interesting An Thropologist. I think anyone who's born into a culture/family where dance plays an important social role is very lucky. I never got the chance to learn to dance when I was growing up
![]() I seem to remember reading that Janette pretty much was self taught in salsa and she didn't have any formal training in it - I think it was just part of her culture as she was growing up
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Brilliant get them booked on SCD
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The salsa they dance on Strictly always seems to me to be like a social dance as opposed to "real" salsa, in much the same way as someone who has never learnt to dance might do what they think is a jive, but is actually a miss-mash of swing, rock, and 'make-it-up-as-you-go-along'!!!
Not that, at a social dance, there is anything wrong with either, so long as people enjoy dancing it doesn't matter, but if they're going to do it on Strictly, they should try and get it right. Oh wooden floors are essential in every dancing home. Not the same with Argentine Tango. as very few Argentines dance Tango - apparently about 10% if that. A number of the Argentines at milongas in London learnt AT in London. |
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This is what footwork is about, Alison! Just love it! ![]() (Love that there were dressed in sports wear and not as mini adults) |
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Wow! Just brilliant. His feet were a blur!
(Love that there were dressed in sports wear and not as mini adults) they do dress in competition wear too like all dancers http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...ps4398d887.png dont think latin dancers in same age group look anymore like mini adults than they do http://i69.photobucket.com/albums/i5...ps41aed20b.jpg |
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And please will someone make that compulsory viewing for all those deluded parents who are sending in those gruesome videos of their little darlings failing to dance or even be funny. Videos which, it seems, everyone on Strictly either has to go 'awwwwww' to or clap like seals.
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Yes Janette is great but that's the first decent salsa we've had in ages on strictly and she's of Cuban heritage so it's in her blood.
They need to bring in salsa teachers/choreographers to help the other pros. |
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That's interesting An Thropologist. I think anyone who's born into a culture/family where dance plays an important social role is very lucky. I never got the chance to learn to dance when I was growing up
![]() I seem to remember reading that Janette pretty much was self taught in salsa and she didn't have any formal training in it - I think it was just part of her culture as she was growing up ![]() Quote:
Real salsa is a social dance. If we have our Venezuelan friends over for dinner we always roll up the carpets and dance - and vice versa. Just normal.
Oh wooden floors are essential in every dancing home. Not the same with Argentine Tango. as very few Argentines dance Tango - apparently about 10% if that. A number of the Argentines at milongas in London learnt AT in London. |
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I found the dance on youtube searching for the music "El Rey Del Timbal"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAwVTAjeuaw Here they are on TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhLBzu0yE-E |
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I think you've got a good chance of being a decent mover with natural rhythm if you hail from Latin America though - dancing seems to be a big part of the culture there 
