Dance Styles

Happy Day, we got Jimbo Johnson back again in the Moanalua Corridor Blog so we can look forward to seeing it move. This terrific section covering the Moanalua Road from Pearl City to Salt Lake is an upcoming ballroom dance section. There will be a new dance club there in the very near future. The dancers that live in that section will be asking for it. And that's where the reader/dancers need the news.

T-Shirt on a fellow tenent. "I am much too young to be this old."

The other blogs are doing well enough, they just need more Information Contributors for the reader/dancers to know more of what is going on in their own kuleanas. As alway the prime photos are of several people which means plenty of friends. I had one lady that sent me four pictures of her boyfriend. Yeah, everyone was breathlessly waiting for those.

Meanwhile Salsa has its fans, the ones that love the dance and like to socialize as people with the common interest. I may not be a huge fan but I certainly approve of it, They have a perfect right to do as they please. Then they have been introducing Bachata which is nice but the whole thing is for the younger and even if I don't know enough, it usually means "fad."

"Heart To Heart" By Edyie Gorme

Salsa dancing is a dance style associated with the salsa style of music now popular worldwide. Salsa music has its origins sometime in the 1950s to 1970s, with the truly distinct salsa style coming out of New York in the 1970s. The music fuses a number of Cuban styles, particularly the son, but also draws from a number of other Latin American musical styles.

Salsa dancing is done on eight-beat music, with dancers moving on three beats, pausing for one beat, dancing for three beats, and pausing for one beat. They do not like to use the term, quick, quick, slow. The movement style is left-right-left-pause, then right-left-right-pause. Basically the same rock step and a slow step pattern used in the Caribbean for ages.

During the pause in most salsa dancing some sort of flourish is utilized, be it a stomp of the foot, casting out the hand or kicking the lower leg. Salsa dancing is a spot dance, with little movement around the dance floor. Instead, dancers rely on the subtle movement of their legs and upper bodies to convey the energy of the dance.

"Macarena" By Los Del Mar

The news from New York is that most of the big Salsa clubs of five years ago are no more. If so what is replacing them? We gotta find out. It doesn't seem to bother anyone in Honolulu yet. I try to help wherever I can and as per usual I always accept everyone. But soon they make it plain, they are interested or they are not interested. We must respect those that are not interested and leave them alone. We have too many others to help.

The new blog, Baile Mestizo is just now beginning to move. It has just arrived in the search engines of Bing, Yahoo and Google. Took only about six weeks. Since it was free, they said it would take about ten weeks. We scored good. Just click it in the side bar in this blog. It will cover what we have always considered "Latin" dancing but there will some changes. The dancers will make those changes.

"Julia" Waltz by Javier Solis

Just got some CDs on Mariachi music, with singer Javier Solis and it is a dilly. One of the CDs is all "Valses" (Waltz). Most people do not know that in Latin America all the way down to South America, the inhabitants dance Waltz. It has been a well kept secret. And when we have a new Latin dance night club on Oahu we will dance Waltz.