https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it! 
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it!
This is what it's all about,... eat your heart out!!
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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
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
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.
I know, I know. Herod is my middle name.
Originally Posted by komentaightor:
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it! ”
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it!
”
Yes it looks like Cali salsa. I love the style and those children are amazing - so much talent
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
I general I don't like to watch children perform but this is amazing.
Ah but they don't do Salsa on SCD.
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
Originally Posted by sofakat:
“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”
“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
”
Ah but they don't do Salsa on SCD.
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
Originally Posted by sofakat:
“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”
“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.
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.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fL0tOmZJNoc[/quote]
Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do.
Originally Posted by gerry23:
“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.”
“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.”
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.
Originally Posted by *Topaz*:
“Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do.”
“Wow, that's pretty much the routine she got Jake to do.”
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.[/quote]
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Last edited by An Thropologist : 25-10-2014 at 10:43
Originally Posted by *Topaz*:
“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.”
“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.
Originally Posted by An Thropologist:
“Hurrumph
You wouldn't say that if you had danced with the Cuban I danced with last weekend.”
“Hurrumph
You wouldn't say that if you had danced with the Cuban I danced with last weekend.
”
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
Originally Posted by komentaightor:
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it! ”
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it!
”
Thank you for that - what a joy to watch & so young!
Originally Posted by *Topaz*:
“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 ”
“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 ”
Yes you are quite right. I was toying with you.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
Originally Posted by komentaightor:
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it! ”
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it!
”
And at the end he became a little boy again. He helped her up and then turned his back on her and went off.
Originally Posted by kaycee:
“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.”
“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.”
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.
Originally Posted by komentaightor:
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it! ”
“https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=10152538513637628
This is what footwork is about, Alison!
Just love it!
”
Wow! Just brilliant. His feet were a blur!
(Love that there were dressed in sports wear and not as mini adults)
Originally Posted by fridgesoup:
“Wow! Just brilliant. His feet were a blur!
(Love that there were dressed in sports wear and not as mini adults)”
“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
Originally Posted by phoebefair:
“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.”
“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.”
I'm with you, those sections are excrutiating. I lasted about 10 seconds of the first one and have fast-forwarded ever since!
Originally Posted by *Topaz*:
“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.”
“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.”
Pretty sure they do. Certainly they bring in choreographers for the AT, and in fact for some of the standard dances as well. The show covers it well, but sometimes the pro dancer is not the one doing all the teaching...
Originally Posted by *Topaz*:
“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”
“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
”
YEs I share that envy. I was desperate for dance lessons as a child but the family budget didn't stretch to it and that was that. I didn't get to learn until my 30s by which time it was too late to become really good. I can put in the hours but my ability will never match my enthusiasm or the image in my head.
Originally Posted by henrywilliams58:
“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.”
“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.”
Ha Ha. So true about Argentinians. When I meet people from Argentina for the first time I always tell them I am a student of AT. They look at me like I have grown an extra head. It seems to most of them it is an archaic pastime, something Grandma used to do. Its become a running joke that when (Latin Americans) want their heritage back they will have to import it from Europe and the US.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAwVTAjeuaw
Here they are on TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhLBzu0yE-E
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