Welcome to Mambocity… We provide quality classes in Salsa and other related Afro latin dance styles, with over 10 years experience in running dance classes, dance holidays and dance festivals, whether you are a beginner or advanced we have classes and events that will cater for you, and inspire you, whether you just want to [...]
We kick off this year’s Congress with a live performance from Dorance Lorza and SextetoCafe on Friday night. The band’s latest CD has a track dedicated to Mambo City. Please show your support to this band and help keep music live. On Saturday and Sunday, we have planned some serious training for you with a timetable [...]
Articles compiled from the newsgroup rec.arts.dance by Mark Balzer. Taken from Victor Eijkhout website: eijkhout.net Log onto this website for complete article. Leading And Following “If you don’t lead me “, my sister announced, “I’m not going to move.” Fifty years later I still remember her words. Since that time I have considerably enhanced most [...]
by Dr. Christopher Washburne In many musical discussions, styles of music found in the Americas and the Caribbean are often referred to as African-derived. Salsa is no exception and the following discussion explores what is particularly African about the music: clave, a rhythmic concept found in a variety of Latin-American styles. Similarities in sound and [...]
Article Copyright © 2000 Steve Shaw from: http://www.salsanewyork.com/ourdancemusic.htm The Clave: The clave is traditionally a wooden instrument consisting of 2 sticks which are struck together to make a clicking or tapping sound. Nowadays, sometimes it is a plastic hollow rectangular “box” which may be hand-held or mounted on the drum set – the timbales, cowbell, [...]
Article by Paul F. Clifford taken from: StreetDance There is some debate whether Salsa and Mambo are the same dance. However, if we get technical, we could argue that Bolero, Rumba, Son, Mambo, Salsa, Cumbia and others often appear to be the same dance. The fact is that in modern music each dance often includes [...]
Article by Paul F. Clifford taken from: StreetDance There is a lot of misinformation on the internet about the story behind Mambo, Cha Cha and Salsa. Most notably that the music and dances originated in Cuba and migrated to New York and then to the rest of the world. In a lot of ways this [...]
Article by Paul F. Clifford taken from: StreetDance Salsa has origins in Cuban music but credit for it’s worldwide popularity belongs to the Puerto Ricans of New York! The popularity of Salsa throughout the world, is indirectly a consequence of American economic and social imperialism (MacDonalds, Coca Cola, TV, movies, music etc) but in this [...]
