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The SalsaCrazy team is at it again with an all new Bachata Dancing instructional system that’s fun, simple, and exciting. Learn how to dance Bachata with ease and style as your professional and friendly teachers guide you through an amazing Bachata Dance foundation. Learn all the fundamental Bachata dance steps with 3 comprehensive and step by step beginner bachata videos. 2 left feet? No problem. . . These Bachata videos will make even the extreme novice a bachata dance master after practicing and learning from SalsaCrazy. Learning how to dance bachata has never been easier!

Bachata dance is believed to have been started originally by Dominican servants who would use any materials they could find around their homes for musical instruments. After a long, hard day at work, they would grab their guitars, along with anything that would make a noise like trashcans or fence posts and get together for parties. In some parts the word Bachata actually means trash, while in others it refers to a party. The guitar music is enhanced with reverb, flangers or echo effects and the singers are predominantly male. Bachata dance music usually includes more than one guitar, a bass guitar, bongo drums and percussion instruments.

Originally Bachata dance was not accepted by upper class citizens and was only really seen being danced in brothels or by men in the army. Over time it has increased slowly in popularity and today the use of electric guitars has made it more interesting to the general public. Both the music and dances usually tell a tale of sadness and heartbreak, which is why it has been given other names such as “amargue” which means bitterness or bitter music.

Today Bachata dance has become a main attraction for Salsa dance clubs worldwide. It is seen to be a very sensual, sexy dance that encapsulates its audience for an intense, emotional journey. Every man and woman in the room envies those who can perform Bachata dance moves. The good news is that anyone can practice the basics without needing a partner by their side, so the discomfort of the first attempt can be experienced in privacy.

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Learn to Salsa Dance from Seaon Stylist. At http://www.StylistBootCamp.com, you’ll learn many exciting patterns, techniques, tips, and tricks that’ll spice up your salsa dancing to the extreme.

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Learn to dance salsa with Seaon Stylist at www.StylistBootCamp.com - Your Online Guide to Salsa Dance Styling and Technique. Watch as Seaon breaks down an amazing salsa dance pattern for you to learn at home. To see more, visit: StylistBootCamp.com.

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Salsa Dance Worldwide: Salsa Dancing news from SalsaCrazy covering worldwide salsa dance events, salsa congress, and salsa news for all the Salsa Dancers worldwide. Subscribe to the weekly Salsa Dance Video News podcast at, http://www.SalsaCrazy.com/salsanews (or www.salsacrazypodcast.com)

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SalsaCrazy Presents: Learn To Salsa Dance DVDs. These Salsa Dance Instruction Videos are your definitive guide to learn to salsa dance. Salsa dance steps are fun, healthy, and extremely sexy! These Salsa Dance Classes on DVD walk you through all the fundamentals of Salsa Dancing in a fun, social and energetic, step-by-step way!

There are many elements to salsa music, and to salsa dance as well, but to actually perform salsa dance is not as difficult as you might imagine. The most basic salsa dance steps are easy to learn, and that’s even an understatement. You don’t have to be an experienced dancer to figure out how to do the most basic steps in salsa dancing.

Here’s a short description of the most basic salsa steps, which are so easy, you can actually follow them right now in your seat. There are two measures of music, both with four beats or counts each. On the first count, you tap your left foot, specifically the front of your foot or the balls of the foot and the toes, in place. Some salsa styles will merely ask you to hold the first count, but dancers have found that tapping the foot makes it interesting, and even activates the first foot so that you’re ready to go. On the second count, you actually make a step forward with that left foot. But you can’t go far because, on the third count, you rock back onto the right foot, transferring your weight backwards. Then, on the fourth count, you close your left foot to join your right foot again.

That entire sequence is called the forward basic movement. The next measure of four counts is the backward basic movement, and goes backward instead of forward, stepping right instead of left. So, what happens is you tap your right foot in place on the first count, then make a step backward with that same right foot. On the third count, you rock forward to transfer your weight to the left foot and close your feet together with the right foot on the fourth count. And those are the basic salsa dance steps. Aren’t they easy?

These steps outward from the closed position are called breaks. The breaks are always consistent on the same beat of the music, no matter what digressions and improvisations of the steps are made by the dancers. Breaks are usually where the couples turn or when they try something fancy.

There are many styles of doing basic salsa dance steps, but as long as you know the basic steps, adapting to the different styles won’t be difficult. These styles usually vary according to where the breaks are set, also according to the rhythms played, and particularly in which location you find yourself dancing. For example, the basic salsa dance steps are called On 2, because the break is on the second step, or rather, you step on the count of two. These are performed all over the US and in most Latin American countries. But there is a special style On 1 practiced in Los Angeles where the break is done on the count of one, and the hold is done on the count of four.

There is also a special Cuban style of salsa that is performed with the break going On 3, with the first two counts being a sexy swaying of the body as the weight transfers from one foot to the other. Other popular styles of doing the salsa dance steps are the New York style, Venezolana or Dominicana style, the Power 2 or Razz M’ Tazz style, La Ruedo, Salsa Disco, and the Eddie Romero step, which is his own concoction of a salsified Rumba.

Salsa dance steps are usually performed with a partner, because salsa is essentially a couple dance. Partners hold each other in the so-called closed or European position. This means the man’s right hand is placed on the woman’s back, his arm around her, while the left hand holds the woman’s right hand. The woman’s left hand rests on the man’s right shoulder. Another important point of contact when doing salsa dance steps is the man and the woman must look into each other’s eyes.

Another reason why this Latin dance is so popular is because the couples doing the salsa dance steps are not required to travel around the room. In fact, couples who hog too much space on the dance floor are seen as rude and inconsiderate show offs. Performing salsa dance steps is fun and flamboyant on its own, it doesn’t take too much for any dancer to look fabulous while dancing the salsa.

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