Salsa is usually a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music. In some forms, it can also appear as a performance dance. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavor or style.

According to testimonials from musicologists and historians of music, the name salsa was gradually accepted among dancers throughout various decades. The very first time the word appeared on the radio was a composition by Ignacio Piñeiro, dedicated to an old black man who sold butifarras (a sausage-like product) on Central Road in Matanzas, Cuba. It is a song titled Échale salsita, wherein the major refrain and chorus goes "Salsaaaaa! échale salsita, échale salsita". During the early 1950s, commentator and DJ "bigote" Escalona announced danceables with the title: "the following rhythm contains Salsa". Finally, the Spanish-speaking population of the New York area baptized Celia Cruz as the "Queen of Salsa".

Salsa is danced on music with two bars of four beats. Salsa patterns typically use three steps during each four beats, one beat being skipped. However, this skipped beat is often marked by a shifting of weight from one foot to the other. Typically the music involves complicated percussion rhythms, ranging from slow at about 120 beats per minute to its fastest at around 180 beats per minute (see salsa music for more).

Salsa is a slot or spot dance, i.e., unlike Foxtrot or Samba, in Salsa a couple does not need to travel over the dance floor much (although they could, if there was space and the lead decided to do so), but rather occupies a fixed area on the dance floor.


The basic movement occurring in the dance patterns of the various salsa styles is the stepping on the beat of the music. Salsa is best grouped in pairs of 4-beat patterns counted "1-2-3-, -5-6-7-, ". The leader starts on count 1 by stepping with the left foot. On count 2 and 3, they step with right and left, respectively. On count 4, the lead pauses or makes an optional tap with the right foot. On counts 5, 6, and 7, they step with right, left, and right, respectively, again followed by a pause on count 8. As a standard, every step must be taken with full weight transfer. The follower part is identical, but shifted by 4 beats, so that as the leader's left foot steps forward, the follower's right foot steps back. In most styles, the leader starts with the left foot and the follower starts with the right foot regardless of the pattern about to be danced.


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Salsa is curently taking its place among the various popular dance forms in Nigeria. Salsa training schools are currently springing up accross the country. It's most popular in Lagos where there are about four training centres.

Will u teach me how to do the salsa dance? I like the way u have very close conact with ur partner. Lol.

Trust me, when you're dancing salsa for the first time, the last thing you'ld be thinking about would be how close the girl is to you. There would be a lot going through your mind, like how to make sure the lady you are spinning doesn't fall flat on her face by accident!   

Wot about throwing up? I hope she doesnt throw up on me.

Why would she throw up? It's not likely, except she's pregnant.

Salsa is much better for women than other dance forms because it tones your legs and abdominal area. In other words, it can give you sexy legs and a flat tummy, if taken seriously! 

ta da !!!!!!!

i was really thinking u were gonna be among those pictures
post some of u doing it, or has it all been a hoax ?

now, there's reason to love salsa, the closeness !!
will u teach me ? freely ?

Errrhh

Do all the chics wear clothes as loose as that Hey sign me up, i love everything liberal. "LESS CLOTHES I SAY". The dance is cool as well, Not really as sexy as the "Tango", or as gritty as the "Flamenco", but coming from the same school of thought, and same Latin background.

Razorr when can we hook so we can do the Salsa dance?

Loyika, Salsa is much more exciting than the tango or flamenco and the beat is exciting. Infact, its more exciting, in my opinion, than the cha cha or merengue. That is why it is becoming very popular in the modern world today. It is similar to samba, except that there is more free-styling in the samba and its a bit more complex.

Salsa is a dance for couples. It's quite romantic.

Wormy, I would love to post pictures of myself, except that they wouldn't look as beautiful as those ones up there.

The pics up there are those of the world salsa championships in 2005 and that's the reason for the clothes. Those guys are pros o.

As for the closeness: - Its a romantic couples dance. Quite sexy, if you ask me.

razorr so this is how you dress up to dance salsa uh?

hmmm pls post ur own pic let me peep

i'll be l;ooking for a salsa ad so i can sign up and "salsa" with no clothes on

I don tire for you guys o. How many times do I have to tell you that those guys are professionals in a major competition, hence their style of dressing. I wear jeans to salsa (believe it or not). If I post my pics, you might not find them sexy enough. 

Don't worry, I would take some pictures before the week runs out and post them here. Happy now?

Razorr:

I wear jeans to salsa (believe it or not). If I post my pics, you might not find them sexy enough.
Don't worry, I would take some pictures before the week runs out and post them here. Happy now? 

oya post em . lets see what's in those jeans

when you post them i'll be happy .
and i'll sign up for naked salsa

Mukina, what have jeans got to do with unclothedness? Crazy girl!

doing salsa in jeans ?
mini skirt jeans ?

anyways, will u hook me up with a dance if i show up ?
be serious o

Haa haa haa. . .

Wormy, show up first!

Yea, I use jeans most times, except on formal occasions.

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i'm sure that was a bump on the thread

no salsa yesterday, some people decided to make money instead ?

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