dvd description
video type: demonstration & instruction
dance level: intermediate - advanced
66 Minutes
filmed in Havana, Cuba
dance genres: Cuban salsa casino
in Spanish with English subtitles

The "Mueve La Cintura" (Move Your Hips) DVD focuses on Cuban salsa dance styling as well as other Cuban dance forms that have been the inspiration and foundation for all the different salsa styles danced throughout the World.

part one - dance couples with live band
Features seven remarkable Cuban dance couples (professional and amateur) who dance together as a group, and who also dance as individual couples demonstrating their personal styles, at slow and fast dance tempos.

part two - the roots of salsa Cubana
Isaias Rojas, Director of the dance company "Ban Rara" demonstrates and explains the most popular Cuban dance forms in Cuba: rumba, danzon, son, cha cha cha, and mambo, and demonstrates how these older dance styles have influenced salsa.

part three - salsa Cubana basics (very brief)
Isaias demonstrates and explains the basic steps, turns, transitions, hand placement, and dancing to the clave or the melody.

part four - exercises
Isaias leads a series of exercises that help to loosen the body, giving that mobility for moving in the Cuban style - mueve la cintura !

featured dance couples
Roynet Perez - Danay Aguamonte
Frady Estrada - Aneya Rodríguez
Luis "Nichito" Castillo -Yacelis Sánchez
Jorge Guzman - Damari Echavarria
Harold Williams - Sarielys Silva
Seo Fernandez - Allessia Cornacchia
Mario Adémas -Yurima Leyua

for info on private dance classes with Isaias Rojas in Havana click here

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