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Summary: Learn how to do the basic side dance move for salsa dancing in this free instructional Latin dance lesson for beginners on video.
Chris Hemmer has achieved Gold Level Certification in 15 different dances. He teaches private and group lessons in West Coast Swing, Hustle, Salsa, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Merengue, Samba,...read more
"On behalf of Expert Village, I'm Christopher from Mr. Dance Pro of South Florida and I'm Kelly Anne from 56Dance. We're going to be showing you and explaining and teaching some salsa basics and techniques and how to enjoy salsa dancing on every dance floor you may go. Okay ladies and gentlemen, we're going to start with some salsa today. We're going to start with the salsa side basic. Being a Latin dance, we are going to be using Cuban motion and Latin hand hold so we're going to show you the side basic of the salsa. Okay, we take the lady in hand. A little bit more relaxed hold than formal ballroom, but we still need to have a good frame. Quick, quick, slow, and quick, quick, slow, quick, quick, slow, and quick, quick, slow. It's important that we also know that we can do this on either the one beat or on the two beat. So I'm going to start with this as salsa danced in South Florida on the one beat. So we're going to go 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, 4. I can turn. 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2, 3, quick, quick, slow."
eHow Article: Basic Side Step for Salsa Dancing Lessons