“THE PLACE TO BE” Friday 20th December 2013 Great crowd, welcoming team, fantastic atmosphere, music and you… Classes for all levels, with MamboCity team, guest advance instructors and performances. ☆ Doors Open 9pm ☆ Salsa Classes @9:30pm ☆ Kizomba & Bachata Classes @10:30pm ☆ 3 Rooms of Music and Dance til 3am Salsa/Bachata/Kizomba with DJs: […]
News update Dates for for your diaries are 2nd to 5th May 2014. Visit the Congress website for more information >> Images from our event in 2013 are now up, you can view them here… Volume 1 >> Volume 2 >>
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 […]
