What kind of dance is salse?

What are the characteristics?

Which country did it originate from?

Which countries are currently at the highest level?

Introduction Havana is the capital of Cuba, and local people dance a dance called salsa.

Salsa, a folk Latin dance, originated from Colombia, Cuba and other Latin American countries.

Different from international standard Latin dance, Salsa dance is more casual, sexy and unrestrained.

A dance music that combines black Cuban music, American jazz, and South American folk music.

It originated in the United States in the 1940s. After evolution and development from the 1950s to the 1960s, it reached its peak of popularity in the mid-1970s.

Salsa rhythm instruments are still dominated by Latin American percussion instruments, such as maracas, rattles, congas, bongos, etc.

The basic rhythm pattern is similar to mambo and chacha, but a two-bar rhythm pattern in salsa is unique: 4/4 beat, × × ×× | 0 ×× 0 0 |.

Traditional salsa music often consists of a mambo passage composed of a fixed motive that is repeated over and over again.

Compared with Rumba, Samba, Cha Cha, etc., which are also Latin dances, it is more casual in costumes and dance skills, does not require a fixed dance partner, and the dance postures are more enthusiastic and unrestrained; and compared with disco, it has more

Elegant temperament; compared to tango and waltz, it is less restrictive and more "provocative" style and vitality. Unlike social dance, SALSA does not have a fixed partner. As long as the music is playing, you can keep swapping

Don’t mind if your partner continues to dance, even if you are a stranger. Dancing openly and openly is the most basic principle of SALSA.

Salsa and Mambo are similar in that they both use six steps every eight beats.

The dancers move in unison for the most part.

In Salsa, twisting is a very important feature, so from the appearance of the entire dance, it is still very different from Mambo.

Mambo usually moves forward and backward, compared with Salsa, it has a more translational and parallel feeling.

Salsa is not only produced by Cubans, but we have reason to believe that Cuba is the birthplace of Salsa.

Contra-Danze (a country dance) from England/France was produced here, later called Danzón, which was brought by a Frenchman who escaped from Haiti. This dance began and originated from the Rumba in Africa.

It combines dance with the Cuban Són, which was created by a Spanish folk singer (sonero), adding African drums and a rhythmic accompanying dance music.

The degree of blending may be smaller and may vary in other countries, such as the Dominican Republic, Colombia, and Puerto Rico.

Bands from these countries brought their music to Mexico City, and the country was famous for its movies at that time (Perez Prado, many famous ones...).

Soon the same thing happened in New York.

In both cities, greater investment led to greater improvements in the blend, resulting in more commercial music.

The word "Salsa" was coined in New York, but the Salsa dance was not produced at that time.

The name quickly became popular because it refers to the various styles of music from countries with Spanish influence: Rumba, Són Montuno, Guaracha, Mambo, Cha Cha, Danzón, Són, Guguanco, Cubop, Guajira

, Cumbia, Plena, Bomba, Festejo, Merengue, etc.

Some of them maintained their own individuality, while others blended into "salsa" dance music.

If you listen to today's salsa songs, you'll find a sonic tone, and you'll hear Cumbia and Guaracha tunes.

In the rhythm of different songs, you will also find the shadow of the old merengue.

Among the modern beats, you'll find some that still retain an old-school feel.

Salsa also differs in different regions.

For example, in New York, due to the addition of new instruments and highly effective percussion components in the production of some Colombian songs, New Yorkers found that they felt very comfortable dancing to the beat of the music when dancing Mambo, while in New York

They did not realize this easily in their original creation.

When the creation of Salsa was considered to have entered the "final" stage and could enter the local market, it was found that this "final" did not appear because Colombians did not listen to Salsa, nor did they dance to the rhythm of Puerto Rican or post-Cuban Salsa.

The reason why I call it post-Cuban is because the local music of Cuba has gradually formed another new and equally beautiful music.

In other words, Salsa is like a tree, with many roots and branches, but its trunk unifies all the roots and branches.

What is important is that Salsa is popular throughout the Hispanic world and has been influenced by many of these places.

Salsa represents everything about us and shows our ability to adapt and evolve.

If you think Salsa should only exist in one place, you're wrong.

If you think that only one dance style is better, then imagine that there is a dancer who is best at a certain dance style. Since he has no dance partner, he randomly finds a dance partner and takes her to a club to dance.

Another style of dance was dominant there, so he looked no better than the locals.