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Basic Salsa Dance Steps

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Summary: Looking to start Salsa dancing? In this free dance lesson, learn how to dance basic salsa steps with professional salsa dancers.

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By Eddie Santos, eHow Presenter

Eddie Santos and Maria Ivanova are artistic directors and founders of "Drugaya Forma" (short "DF") Dance Team. The "Duo" has been teaching and performing together since 2003. For...read more

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Salsa is a Latin dance and musical style that was introduced to the United States during the Cuban and Puerto Rican immigration, between the 1940s and the 1970s. There is some debate as to the origins of salsa, but the rhythm is a fusion of traditional African and Cuban and other Latin-American rhythms, including the Mambo and the Rumba. Salsa dancing is one of the most popular dances worldwide, and because the rules of the dance allow for a lot of creative improvisation, many different styles have developed, including Miami style, Puerto Rican style, New York style, L.A. style and Cuban style.

In this free video dance lesson, our expert will teach you how to salsa dance. If you have ever wanted to learn energetic, sexy dance moves, salsa dancing in the dance for you. Our experts will teach you step-by-step instructions for doing a variety of basic salsa dancing moves, including the cross body lead, right outer spin, copa steps, and the butterfly spin. You will also get tips for salsa dancing rhythms and how to put the steps you learn to music. Salsa dancing can be a great work out, and a good way to express yourself in a creative way, so let our experts show you how to salsa dance with this free video series.

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issy2 said

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on 8/2/2008 What style is this called? I just started on-1 a few months ago, but seems very different from yours.

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"On behalf of Expert Village ,my name is Maria and this is Eddie. We're with salsainutah.com. Here we're going to show you some basic steps. Here we go we're going 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 and now from another point of view, now we face this way and we're going 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7. If you notice we're starting with our feet together and from there, we never have our feet together again so ladies start going forward one with our right foot guys starting back with the left foot. So we're going 1 2 3 pause on four and step back 5 6 7 pause on eight 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 3 5 6 7 1 2 pause 5 6 7 1 so this was our basic step."

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