Salsa
 Salsa is a distillation of many Latin and Afro-Caribbean dances. 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.
The movement style is left-right-left-pause, then right-left-right-pause. 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 mostly a stationary 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. Beginners classes:
Saturday & Wednesday at 8pm
in Knowledge Village studio, block 18, 2nd floor Booking online or contact Nora : +971508750111 The Romantic Bolero is the slowest of the Latin Dances, it combines controlled movement with dramatic expression of the music. The Bolero has the same Afro-Cuban roots as the Rumba and is thought to have originated from Cuban or Spanish folk dances such as Danzon and Beguine.
Cha ChaOriginally Known as the ChaCha, became popular about 1954, Cha Cha is on offshoot of the Mambo. In the slow Mambo tempo, there was a distinct sound in teh music that people dancing to calling the step the "Triple" Mambo. Eventually it evolved into a separate Dance, known today as the Cha Cha. Meringue The Meringue is the national Dance of Dominican Republic, and also to some extent of Haiti, the neighbor sharing the island. Ideally suited to the small, crowed dance floors, it is a dance that is easy to learn and essentially a "fun" dance.  The history of Latino music and dance which became popular throughout Europe and the Americas in the 20th century dates back to the 18th century. However, in Cubathese music's underwent a transformation inthe 19th century which made them unique and although there may have been contributions from other parts of the Caribbean, Cuba is seen as its birth place.
The impact of Puerto Rican migration to New York throughout the 20th century (particularly in the
1940s and 1950s) and the Cuban migration (especially in the 1960s) and the merging of their homeland music with the jazz of the Afro-Americans which contributed significantly to the development of Salsa music and the making of it popular throughout the world. The roots of much of the music might be traced back to Cuba but as a form of Cha and Salsa are
North American innovations born from Latin migration to North America (particularly New York) and an inter-mixing of musical styles from many parts of the world (especially jazz). Dance Latino offers tuition in a variety of different styles of dance including Latin American, Ballroom, and Street Latin. From the romantic waltz, highly stylized International Tango or the smooth sensuality of Argentinean Tango. There's the cheeky Cha Cha Cha, high energy Jive, seductive Rumba, Paso Doble' or Samba, but if that's still not enough, there's also the Salsa, Rueda, Mambo, Merengue, Lambada, Swing.
Dance Latino offers tuition in a variety of different styles of dance including Latin American, Ballroom, and Street Latin. From the romantic waltz, highly stylized International Tango or the smooth sensuality
of Argentinean Tango. There's the cheeky Cha Cha Cha, high energy Jive, seductive Rumba,
Paso Doble' or Samba, but if that's still not enough, there's also the Salsa, Rueda, Mambo, Merengue,
Lambada, Swing.
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