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

Content: Different regions of Latin America and the United States have distinct salsa styles of their own, such as Cuban, Dominican, Puerto Rican, Cali Colombia, L.A. and New York styles. Salsa dance socials are commonly held in nightclubs, bars, ballrooms, restaurants, and outside, especially when part of an outdoor festival. In many styles of salsa dancing, as a dancer shifts their weight by stepping into the middle to have 50/50 weight, the upper body remains level and nearly unaffected by the weight changes. the movement rotates in a figure of eight to cause the hips to move. Arm and shoulder movements are also incorporated. 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 Afro-Latino style
5.2 Colombian / Cali style
5.3 Cuban style / Casino
5.3.1 Miami-style Casino
5.3.2 Rueda de Casino
5.4 Los Angeles style
5.5 New York 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
Johnny Pacheco founded Fania record label in the 1960s and gave the name "Salsa" to a blend of different influences, rhythms and styles of Latin music in New York City, especially in el Barrio, Spanish Harlem, and the Bronx. Salsa means sauce which represented son, guaguanco, son montuno, Jazz elements, Latin Jazz, Cuban influences.