Casinando
Salsa Cubana Styling & Instruction - DVD
DVD
(Boogalu Productions BP012),
Released 2008;
Editor's Pick:
This is our latest DVD featuring salsa Cubana, better known in Cuba as "casino". This title has four parts focusing on demonstrations of salsa Cubana styling along with a section of dance instruction. The stars of this project are ten dance couples who are a select group of some of the hottest dancers from Havana. All the dance couples are members of professional dance companies or dance teachers.
part one - group dance
All the couples dance together in rueda de casino circle formation and then split off and dance separately as couples. Live music by "Chaguito Y Sus Timberos".
part two - individual couples styling
Nine professional dancers demonstrate their personel dance styles drawing from their own creativity as well as from traditional and modern influences. The dance demonstrations are done at medium and fast tempos.
part three - featured dance couple
Two professional Cuban dancer-choreographers, now living live in Europe, Luis "Nichito" Castillo (Paris) and Yanet Fuentes Torres (London), demonstrate their unique salsa-casino style at fast and slow tempos along with their interpretation of salsa-rumba.
part four - salsa-casino dance instruction
Many people start dancing salsa with the idea of incorporating as many complicated turns and steps as possible. This is the dance sport - heavy on technique - forget listening to the music approach. There is another way. In this section Lázaro Pedroso and Tamara Toledo teach their "No Tricks Natural Method", a simple and fun approach to dancing Cuban Salsa using dance movements that everyone can do. Their method focuses on dancing to the music using natural patterns and movements that can be strung together to create exciting dance combinations.
Lázaro and Tamara's class covers:
• dance philosophy
• body position
• traveling using basic patterns you already know such as: walking forward, walking backward, turns, walking to the side, inside turn women, outside turn women, dile que no (cross body lead)
• the basic patterns in combinations
• the importance of preparation and momentum
• a dance demonstration using all these methods
The entire class instruction is in English spoken by Lázaro.
video type: demonstration & instruction
dance level: beginning - intermediate - advanced
78 Minutes
filmed in Havana, Cuba
[from the liners] (BP, 2008-10-27)
Category: Dvd
=> Dance Instruction
=> Cuba
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