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Salsa means "sauce" in Spanish and is, as the name suggests, a mixture of various Latin dances with roots in Africa and Cuba, with Latin and North American influences. This developed into various Salsa styles, such as the LA (Los Angeles) style, the NY (New York) style in addition to others such as Cuban, Puerto Rican and Columbian. The style we teach is known as LA, or Crossbody Salsa and it is danced widley in the UK and worldwide. It shares several characteristics with the Mambo and it is called Crossbody because of it's predominantly linear partner moves. Cuban style Salsa is also very popular and quite different in character from the Crossbody Salsa style. We occasionally run Cuban Rueda* classes at all our venues and offer Cuban style Salsa classes on a weekly basis at The Bishop on the Bridge venue. Salsa is mostly a partner dance althought dancers occasionally break away from each other to perform some solo footwork. *There are also some group forms such as Rueda (the Wheel) where dancers perform dance moves together as called by the Leader (or Caller) and frequently exchange parters around the Wheel.
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