Title: Salsa (dance) - Wikipedia
Headings: Salsa (dance)
Salsa (dance)
Contents
Origin
Description
Venues
Rhythm
Styles
New York style
Los Angeles style
Cuban style / Casino
Miami-style Casino
Rueda de Casino
Colombian / Cali style
See also
References
External links

Content: Different regions of Latin America and the United States (including countries in the Caribbean) have distinct salsa styles of their own, such as Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, and New York styles. Salsa dance socials are commonly held in nightclubs, bars, ballrooms, restaurants, and outside, especially when part of an outdoor festival. Salsa's tempo ranges from about 150 bpm (beats per minute) to around 250 bpm, although most dancing is done to music somewhere between 160 and 220 bpm. The basic Salsa dance rhythm consists of taking three steps for every four beats of music. The odd number of steps creates the syncopation inherent to salsa dancing and ensures that it takes eight beats of music to loop back to a new sequence of steps. Contents
1 Origin
2 Description
3 Venues
4 Rhythm
5 Styles
5.1 New York style
5.2 Los Angeles style
5.3 Cuban style / Casino
5.3.1 Miami-style Casino
5.3.2 Rueda de Casino
5.4 Colombian / Cali style
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Origin
Students from Monterrey Institute of Technology and Higher Education, Mexico City perform at Culture Week
Salsa dancing evolved as a dance to accompany salsa music which was popularized in the 1960s. Many of the movements found in salsa dancing originated from earlier forms of Latin dance such as mambo, cha cha cha, and pachanga as well as other dances popular at the time such as swing dance . Originally a street dance, salsa dance steps came to be more formalized once schools began opening up teaching students how to dance salsa with a set curriculum. One of the early influential instructors in salsa was Eddie Torres who helped to formalize the timing for New York-style salsa, and popularized the style around the world. There is some debate surrounding the exact origins of the name "salsa".