If you are someone who is in love with ballroom dancing, then you probably know a thing or two about Salsa, one of the sexiest dances you’ll ever see on the dance floor.
Salsa is a dance of Latin origin and is technically a combination of moves that include changes in weight placed upon the feet while the upper body remains unaffected by the shifts in weight. As a result of this, the dancer moves the hips to the beat of the music and creates subtle, smooth and graceful steps. Movements of the shoulders and arms are also incorporated in the dance.
Simple as it may sound, Salsa is not exactly an easy dance to execute.
For a viewer, dancing Salsa may look effortless, but this is actually what the dancers want their audience to see. A Salsa routine is successful when your viewers appreciate how effortless you make it look when in reality, it is a carefully measured dance that requires as much effort as any other genre. It is definitely not as easy as it looks!
Beginners may feel intimidated by this fact, but difficult as it may seem, there are proven ways to make a great Salsa dancer out of an amateur. According to Nery Antonio Garcia, Florida dance instructor, and owner of Elegant Rumba Dance Company, there are four smooth Salsa moves that will help any beginner to up their game in the ballroom.
Joined by dancer extraordinaire Serena Khan Cuevas, Garcia posted a YouTube tutorial video that teaches about what “The 360” is and four amazing ways on how to go in and out of “The 360” smoothly, making your routine more colorful and elegant.
So, what is this “360” that Garcia was talking about? Basically, the 360 is the turn a dancer makes in a Salsa routine, or any dance routine for that matter.
The problem with doing the 360 in Salsa is that the dancer may end up getting stuck to the turn with no variation with the way the dancer goes out of the 360. This could lead to the dance looking like the same dance over and over again, which can also cause the audience to get bored with the performance.
In the video, Garcia explains how the steps will be executed for the guys while Cuevas breaks it down for the girls.
With the four moves focused on by Garcia in his video, he showed just how to make different moves as a dancer goes in and out of the 360, creating an unpredictable routine with more elegance and grace. These four moves include the “Shoulder Check 360”, the “Canopy 360”, the “Inside Turn 360” and the “Reverse Hammerlock 360”.
This family of moves is intended to improve the overall look of the dance and make it more varied and less predictable. Turning is definitely a major move in Salsa, but the difficult part is how to make each turn uniquely elegant and beautiful on the dance floor.
With the help of these moves, one’s Salsa dance routine will surely hit the next level on stage. What used to be an amateur can easily look like a professional!
Watch Garcia’s video below and learn more about these amazing moves.
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