Puerto Rican Salsa / Los Angeles style / New York (salsa in line)
Almasabrosa organises Puerto Rican salsa courses in Firenze.
Puerto Rico represents the alternative to Cuba when it comes to the way salsa is danced in the Caribbean. The term salsa in line is commonly used to indicate the salsa styles in which the dance technique requires figures and position changes between lady and gentleman to follow a straight line, unlike Cuban salsa where, beyond the stylistic differences, the partner figures develop in a circular pattern.
Later developed in the States with the Los Angeles and New York styles, Puerto Rican salsa is often identified as salsa in line. In Puerto Rico people dance both on the musical one and on the musical two. In Los Angeles only on the one, in New York only on the two (Mambo).
The Almasabrosa Puerto Rican salsa course teaches the basic technique of body movement and the fundamental steps that are universally used to dance salsa in the popular Puerto Rican style. We also provide the basic elements for understanding the rhythm of the percussion and how to follow the timing within the music.
We explain the most common basic Puerto Rican salsa figures and provide the technical elements that allow the man to lead and the woman to follow the lead and let herself be led.
Once the basics have been learned, we add partner figures and individual steps, while at the same time exploring some aspects of body movement, step technique and leading, in order to gain ease and fluidity of movement, confidence in leading and the ability to dance in any social setting with anyone.
As individual technique, we also study pasitos, gestures and turn techniques.
The course initially teaches dancing on the musical one. As the level rises, in addition to increasing the technical difficulty of the steps and figures, which gradually reach greater refinement and originality, we introduce, by exploring the study of the percussion rhythm and the Clave, the technique of dancing on the musical 2, which can be interpreted like Cuban son or with the particular breaking on two technique of New York. In the advanced courses, both methods are explained and taught.
The teaching of salsa is then enriched with elements of cha cha cha, pachanga and boogaloo that complete the individual steps and body movement.
During the year, specific classes (workshops) are also scheduled for gestures and pasitos.