History of Salsa.
Salsa is not easily defined. Who invented salsa? The Cubans, Puerto Ricans? Salsa is a distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances. Each played a large part in its evolution.
Salsa is similar to Mambo in that both have a pattern of six steps danced over eight counts of music. The dances share many of the same moves. In Salsa, turns have become an important feature, so the overall look and feel are quite different form those of Mambo. Mambo moves generally forward and backward, whereas, Salsa has more of a side to side feel.
It is not only Cuban; nevertheless we must give credit to Cuba for ...
The rest of the article "A look at the origin of Salsa" By Jaime Andrés Pretell can be found at Salsa History
Wednesday, October 04, 2006
History of Salsa
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