Social Salsa Dancing in Puerto Rico #2 by Cuban Salsa Ireland

[salsakenn]

Cuban,Puerto Rican..All good be proud...But

whoever you are wherever the dance originated...FINE..

jUST ENJOY Music & Fun should have no color or race

creed or coloe...JUST DANCE

[geresne1]

Salsa...



[TheSalsera22]

bravo!



[calmingspirit1]

That little kid in the red shirt will be FABULOUS!

[joachin16]

It isn't cuban salsa...

[JaviT81]

The name of this son???

[sotork12]

@JaviT81 PARE COCHERO-CHARLIE PALMIERI

[eyaliss]

they are dancing great...but this is certainly not cuban salsa!!! (exept for the young kid dancing with the older wonan).

[latinireland]

@eyaliss All Salsa is Cuban, even this song is Cuban. I don´t like the way they dance and that is something different. Some of them are ok but keep going back and forwards in this so called in-line style. I bet some of them are not even Puerto Ricans. I don´t like that the emphasys of the dance is on doing turns and posing like robots. They forget to dance with the music which is going in one direction while they are going in another. Anyway, who cares!

[unoicero]

@latinireland, as we know salsa today, is not all cuban, The roots are mainly a merge of cuban rythms from Son to Guaguanco, Guajira, Charanga, jazz and others rythms as well. It started in New York within the latin inmigrants in the 70'. It is written that the term Salsa was given by a Venezuelan DJ and some others musician who started the style of music.

The singer of the band is Puppy Santiago who emigrated from Cuba to PR a while ago.

But as you said "who cares" as long as they enjoy it!

[latinireland]

@unoicero My friend:

Salsa can be 100% Cuban or if you want, like any other music, you can include other styles as part of the arrangement so that you create a bit of diversity. That way you make it more interesting to the listener. That is one of the reason good styles never grow to be boring, even one hundred years after they were created.

Did you know that Mick Jagger used the Son clave in some of his songs? Even famous classical composers of the passed mixed styles up.

[jayroo10]

@eyaliss yeah they wouldn't exactly be dancing cuban salsa in puerto rico

[unoicero]

@jayroo10 I agree, this is in Puerto Rico not Cuba. We have a different style like any other Latin American country or community who have developed their own style. They all are valid and good as long as they do it with passion and "mucho sabor"