What Is New York Style Salsa _ Salsa Dancing

Hi , my name is Rivera and I'm an expert in salsa .

I own two dance studios in Queens , New York .

We're gonna be learning a progression of salsa moves so that we could actually go out practice , take it to the club , take it to a party and you could show up all the great moves .

You learn what is New York style salsa onto bring it home .

Alright .

I'd love to feel that for you .

Well , basically , our experience in New York is a little different from the rest of the country .

Um The salsa that we dance here is inspired by the Puerto Rican community which has been uh alive and kicking in New York for decades now .

But what happened in the seventies was there was an explosion of dance called the hustle .

Now as Latinos , we like to dance salsa , but we wanted everyone to like it too .

So what did we do ?

We combined what we knew and combined it with what we saw was a dynamic partner dance and we created it on to salsa experience .

Basically , our style is a little bit more dynamic , a little bit more impactful .

Um We are approaching the music in the same way that a musician approaches the music .

So when a musician composes his music , of course , he's feeling it and he's feeling it from the heart , but it's very specific , it's on the timing .

You know , there are rules to music and the dancers are following those same rules .

So if the music is playing on two dancers are dancing , when the music stops , we stop also just as flashy , just as dynamic , just as awesome and just as impactful only with the music and a lot more technical .

So basically on two , you're gonna hear it called by many names dancing onto Mambo onto salsa onto breaking onto basically what that means is that we're dancing on the second beat of the music .

So now all salsa music , regardless of what style you dance , you could be dancing on one Cuban style L A style at the end of the day , all salsa music is on eight count timing .

So all salsa music goes 12345678 .

When we dance on two , we listen for that one beat , but we're breaking on two , we're dancing on that second beat and that's how we know to move .

So we're still dancing on one , technically speaking , but the one is just dictating when we need to move .

And two is when we break , which is why it's called breaking on two or dancing on two