Throughout the Dominican Republic’s rich and difficult history, which includes foreign occupation and a repressive dictator, the festive spirit of its people has allowed the island nation to persevere. The music of the island has helped fight many of the trials presented to it. During the reign of the dictator Trujillo, merengue was proclaimed the...
For a long time many people have been asking me actively what is “listening” and what is “hearing” music. Well I have been researching this for sometime and found some great articles on the net the actively explains the difference between listening and hearing. This is something that is very important to a dancer as...
Lately I have been asked several times about how to be a more musical dancer, and how to “anticipate” what’s going on in a song to adapt your dancing to the music… My obvious answer was (and is…) “listen to as much salsa music as you can”, but some people might not be satisfied with...
1) You shall not dance out of time 2) You shall not refuse a dance to a less advanced dancer 3) You shall respect other dancers on the dance floor 4) You shall not use more than 2 square metres of dance floor 5) You shall treat fellow instructors or salsa organisers as colleagues, not...
