Salsa Dancing Style

Salsa Dancing Style

Introduction

The native meaning of salsa belongs to a sauce in Spanish, and the sauce can be hot and spicy together. As with the many dances that emerged on the face of the world mainly followed by the creation of the music. Therefore, in the case of Salsa, New Yorkers of Cuban and Puerto Rican ancestry are known as the pioneer of Salsa music: the music that grew out of Cuban Son roots and Mambo.

Salsa emerged back in 1960's period in New York, however, the Mambo dancing style was already a popular dancing style and it was not surprising that any other dance emerged from Mambo. Therefore, the basic steps of Salsa dancing followed Mambo. After the emergence, Salsa got great popularity in Columbia, Cuba and Puerto Rico. In all these countries, the music used to be aligned with the dance that is why the music also got fame. As the Salsa dancers had their connections with the dancers from different communities living in New York. Hence, within a short time span, these communities developed their own brand of Salsa dancing with music (Heritage Institute, 2009). As the Salsa got great popularity in New York with this the dance spread to the rest of North American and also around the West Coast of North America.

Discussion

Significance and History of Salsa Dance

Before and after the World War II, the music found its market in New York and Mexico City. It was the New York, who for the first use the term Salsa for dance. If we review the history, the evidence affirmed that the word salsa used by the Cuban singer named Ignacio Pinerio in the song Echale Salsita. According to the Late Alfredo Valdes Senior the idea of salsa came to mind of Pinerio when he was having his food at that moment the word Salsa emerged because Cuban food lack spices. Initially, the word was served as protest against the bland food. After that, the research revealed that the word was used a popular nickname for variety of Hispanic influenced music genres like rhumba, cha cha cha, and Guajira etc. Salsa music and dance got promotion and publicity in New York, thus Salsa witnessed greater investment that generated more commercial awareness for Salsa. In United States, one of the albums of early times composed by Cal Tjader named Cal Tjader Quintet plus 5's used a donned fork on a flat plate including the red beans and used chili alongside as opened bottle for serving the Tabasco sauce (Salsa Dancing Addict, 2013).

The metaphors of Salsa in the modern world that is danced and heard in the clubs has been refined through a long slow and a varied process that actually makes Salsa accessible and understandable to the people. Therefore, in this regard, one thing needs to be highlighted that according to the author that one place or a single person cannot be attributed as the founder and creator of ...