Paso Doble '06 USA Dance Nat'l Latin Championship 1/4 Finals

[aditi3333]

Couple 166 was awesome!



[gingermist21]

watch the documentary of two brothers from Spain who are world renowned bull fighters the shapes they make are incredible and resemble the Paso you see danced today in Latin dance. It's a great documentary, I believe 60minutes did the interviews, and it's very educational any way.

[stringcheese0902]

If I'm remembering correctly the story I heard is that King Louis XIV went to Spain and saw a bullfight and wanted to do that sort of thing, so he went back to France and invented the Paso Doble. This story makes sense to me because Louis liked to dance, and all the names of the figures are in French - Ecart, Coup de Pique, Deplacement, etc. So yes it is inspired by bullfighting, but it was born in France.

[TheSambaqueen]

great performance! also check out paloma gomes and her dancing song canta bahia :)

[TheStillLover]

This is so much better than bull fighting... only beauty... not blood. I learned about the paso doble in France.... my boyfriend was a professional ballet dancer... He had a small dancing part in La Traviata in Monaco at the Casino. And Beausoleil would put on free dances every weekend where folks did the paso doble. It didn't look like this... but was still cool (and now I wonder if it was the pas-redouble??? version).

[JerusalemHolyLand]

beautiful dance

[Tamaran39]

In France there was the PasoDoble was called pas-redoublé, a military march was accompanied by a dance quite different from Spanish paso doble.

The pasodoble that we know today was born in Spain, represents the feeling noble, strong and simple Spanish town. We therefore have to dance puffed out his chest and inserting the stomach, with elegance and temperament, but not rigidly, the Spanish paso doble, is closely linked to the world of bullfighting was gradually spreading to the south of France

[eboyzki]

the spin the guy did at 1:20 to 1:23 was sick.

[Shalyzza]

So different to Spain... where Pasodoble was born... aisss...

[eboyzki]

no man, it really is from spain. The dance is made to imitate the way a matador or a bullfighter and his cape moves before he kills the bull. and i don't know if the Paso exhibited now is different from the ones in spain. but it is still intense.

[DrisVill]

umm its a latin american orgin dance how is it going to be born in france

[josehim666]

lol il say 80% of the guy there are gay but the girls are hot xD

[sophiachacha]

wow! they look gre

[Jany1954]

It sure would be nice if we knew who won?? :)

[omen696]

i just love how it starts :)

[Hodetka]

Ahoj všichni můžete mi poradit kde postahovat písničky na paso doble a další latinskoamerické tance??díky moc

[AniLutu]

My favorite couple No. 193!

[ahmedmbondok]

1)copy&paste

2)post on 2 diff vids

3)Hold your breath

4)look at your hands

[iamsweleeT]

oh i love to dance paso doble i am just competing in b class right now but im aming for big campetitions like brittish rising star etc.

[TheAwersome]

Is the timing off? I'm counting the rhythm and all the couples seem to not be crashing early by about 4 counts.

[sundropslsc88]

Yay USA dance. I've been in these championships; they're amazing!! :)

[nievesmontero]

La sangre hierve al bailar un paso doble ¡Viva España!

[nievesmontero]

El paso doble se lleva en la sangre ¡Viva España

[BrokeredHeart]

Gotta love 224's rock solid do - seriously, it's so shiny and slick, he looks like he's wearing a helmet.

[Xili0n]

Nicely done styles... but a bit over the top on some couples... some people need to remind them they're not fencing with their arms... it's a bullfight!

Otherwise... nice movie :)

[ChrissyBabex]

thats rlly easy...i know how to dance alll movements ...jive..chacha...paso doble...Samba etc.

[saxyperson]

Holy mother of God! I am so going to learn how to do that, already started with dance lessons!

[bonita2079]

Anywayz, this was a nice video, I like their professionalism.

[ttbannkntador]

it s not salsa....its an ugly dance....they are so slow and dont have any grace...the cuban people are the true salsa dancers...the american are so stricts

[HouseFreq]

The Paso Doble is romantic. It tells the story of the tension between a strong willed man and woman bending each others wills to one another. Salsa is a bastardized imported version that is, frankly, just plain slutty (I'm not saying it isn't a whole lot of fun, you just really can't compare the two).

I would also caution against making such spurious remarks to a Spaniard. The Spanish take their Paso Doble very seriously.

[grifhinx]

way too seriously if i may add...

[whiterussian00]

omg Cubans are good salsa dancers??? i don't think so.. Cubans are very sloppy dancers. this is a Paso Doble so at least listen to the music before you make stupid comments.

[bonita2079]

Hey...don't talk about us Cubanos like that...its not nice.

[ludane]

Off topic man... this is a Paso Doble, where did you get the idea that it could be salsa?? Also, HouseFreq is right, Paso Doble music is much much more beautiful than salsa, and we indeed love it. Although the music in this vid it's not exactly a traditional Paso Doble

[bonita2079]

Yep, salsa originated in Cuba - but a lot of people want to deny that shit.

[marina401]

perdona pero no. En cuba se origino el guaguanco, la guaracha, el son y muchos mas, pero la salsa fue originada en new york cuando mesclaron, a varios ritmos y el resultado fue la salsa. si tu eschuchas con mucho cuidado te daras cuenta que son ritmos bellos pero muy diferentes...viva cuba

[bonita2079]

I understand that, but a lot of those dances you named still originated in Cuba so when you think about it, it still originated from there. You may want to read what you said again. You just said the dance originated from Cuba. Did you not?

[bonita2079]

All of those dances that you talk about still come from Cuba. They all make up the Salsa that we dance today. So I don't know why I'm getting a lot of flack for stating that it comes from Cuba. Pure evidence that people are still in denial.

[nicholo05]

Who the hell would think this is salsa. The title says everything.

[nicholo05]

Who the hell would think this is salsa. The title says everything.

[grifhinx]

salsa your faces. all of you. please. and read the video title. it's just a small lift of your reading angle at least.

[sk9utube]

Salsa dancing is a good means to get laid. I don't understand any other purpose of it.

[LadyKyare]

A paso doble is a bull fight, so often the dance is made as some kind of challenging each other, it's really fun to do ;)

[stonecoldarc]

lol, that's a good one! But this is Paso Doble. MUCH sexier than Salsa ever will be.

[Gallion]

Exercise?

[coquettishpixy]

how do they not hit each other.

dangerously close... meh!?

[chicho2chicho]

no dejo de verlo

esta genial!!!!!

[chicho2chicho]

me encanto!!

Que bonitoo!!

^^

:)

[ashwee63]

whats the name of this song?

[dorci1988]

GREAT!!!!!!

[Accelerater]

i need the name of the music tittle!!!!!!!!!!!!

Pleas

[amirahas]

wow the paso doble looks kinda painful. at least it would be for me.

[agger1994]

eugene and maria are my dance teachers, i have lessons from them 3 days a week

[hobo1256]

Really? What studio do they teach at and how much do they charge per lesson?

[Micke00007]

whats the name of this music?

[HackerShooter]

try to find "Paso Doble"

[grifhinx]

el pico - orquesta torres avila

the same song they used for the world amateur champioship in 2005

and i'm not sure if people actually managed to find it anywhere...

[mamboleando]

great paso doble,as we can see a good dancer always follow the rhythm,el buen bailador siempre baila con el ritmo..

[p3pedos]

esto de paso doble tiene muy poco, vaya mierda!!

[osheen18]

nice vid! how often do u have to worry about bumping into each other?

[silverine02]

haha I know.. at 1:30 it seems like the girl in pink and her partner bump into the other couple to the right... or at least they get in each other's way

[mamimia77]

Please can someone tell me the names and where couple 193 are from...they are insane!!!! They are the couple in the beginning..both in black..

[contactm]

Eugene and Maria. I think they just turned pro this year. They had their last amateur competition at the 2007 Embassy Ball in LA, California.

[PoliticalGuy22]

really wow that means they will be televised during the 2009 ohio star ball hopefully if they make the finals. Yay

[optimisticbabe]

@contactm How do these daancers earn pro status?

[lucyblondie]

eugene and maria they dance at a studio called Victor Kanevsky's Kaiser Dance Academy

8777 19th Ave (and Bath Ave)

in brooklyn, ny

i used to go there when i was small but i changed dance schools

[eddyrome]

U move the camera 2 much...

[islandwarrior14]

absolutly fabulos

[freezzertime]

it's quite funny...really. All except Eugen and Maria are going "Up Down!" with their arms...pure gayness.

[littledelia]

Cool Valentin and Valeria are in this competition. They're one of my favorite couples.

[dancinbabe0017]

I love 224!!!! <3

[jeni323]

I have to saw this is the finest paso doble vid I've seen out here... would love to see more. J

[dancetwo]

does anyone know the title of this amazing paso?

[ssouldancer]

wow...Maria Manusova is incredible!

[carronada]

Spanish dance, magnific!!

[treklis]

i think the music needed to be more dramatic and sexual.

it would have made there dances all so much more watchable.

x

[olympus58]

i really love to dance the paso doble there goes so mutch energy in it!

[Brle80]

vvggghfg

[MrNico89]

a different paso....anybody who knows the name??