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Cuban Style Salsa (Casino Rueda)
Unlike Western dancing which travels, Salsa stays put in one spot
on the floor. I might add some floors get so crowded, you barely
have room to dance, much less move, but fortunately Salsa is very
"space-economical". Even on crowded floors most couples
can work in quite a few patterns. These four factors :
standardized rhythm, flowing nature, space economy, and
stick-to-one-spot, all combine to make it easy to flow from one
partner to another. What certainly started as two couples swapping
partners in the middle of the floor eventually grew to three
couples, four, and five until gradually enormous circles with as
many as 100 people began to form. This style of dancing was named
"Rueda", "Salsa Rueda", "Rueda de Casino" and "Casino
Rueda".
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While Rueda is especially popular in Cuba and a number of places in the U.S., it can also be found in many other countries. Rueda has active groups in at least Hungary, Israel, Norway, France, Germany, Poland, Russia, Hong Kong, Spain, Australia, Switzerland and the UK. At least in Germany and Israel, some of the calls are in German and Hebrew respectively.
Rueda simply means "wheel". Casino refers to the kinds of turns and breaks you might normally see in ordinary partner Salsa Dancing. What makes Rueda unique is that the dancing is done in the "wheel", as a group, with the "followers" being passed in the wheel, rapid exchanging of partners,
The name, Rueda de Casino has its own history. After 1959, Gambling Casinos were closed and some of them reopened as dancing halls. At the beginning, people kept calling the dancing halls casinos and, as a result the type of dance done there was called Casino.
There are many
different calls involved in Rueda dancing. Some of them change
from country to country, or group to group, depending on where you
are. A few examples of the basic calls are: enchufla, 70,
vasilala, la prima.
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