CASINO
CUBANO SALSA CUBANA INSTRUCTION WITH LÁZARO NORIEGA
dvd description video type: instructional & demonstration
dance level: beginning - intermediate
45 minutes
filmed in Havana, Cuba
dance genres: Cuban Salsa-Casino
Casino and Salsa are different.
Lázaro shows how they dance in Cuba today.
This video was produced to give Latin dancers around the World insight
into how Cubans dance "salsa" or what is known in Cuba as "casino".
Through instruction, demonstration, and performance, "Casino
Cubano" is your introductory guide into this exciting popular
dance style - a style that draws heavily from Cuba's rich cultural
traditions.
The "Casino Cubano" video features Lázaro Noriega,
an accomplished dancer, choreographer, and dance company director.
Presented here is Lazaro's system of teaching casino that he has
developed over the past several years in dance classes he teaches
in Europe and Cuba.
special features
• learn the basic casino steps, basic casino, transitions,
and turns
• instruction on casino styling
• instruction about leading and form
• exercises on to how to move your body
• performance of Cuban dance styles that have influenced casino
part one ~ casino dance instruction
(19 segments)
Lazaro explains and demonstrates the basic steps, turns, and style
of casino dancing accompanied by two members of his dance company,
Iván and Dayami. Segment titles include: three basic steps
- position - "el bote" - primary casino step with partner - steps
for doing turns - simple turns - more complex turns - dancing casino
advice
part two ~ Cuban dance movement
These exercises, led by Dayami, are helpful in learning how to move
and groove in the Cuban style. part three ~ living Cuban dance traditions
The video concludes with a powerful performance of three traditional
forms of Cuban dance that have significantly influenced contemporary
casino dancing: orisha dance, rumba, and son. Iván and Dayami
end the video with an exciting casino solo.
"Casino Cubano" is in Spanish with printed notes in English
explaining in detail all the dance instructions and content on the
video.
Price: $32.00
"Great
quality dancers, methodology, and excellent teacher. I recommend this video! I purchased
almost 11 Cuban style videos and this is my favorite." E.Q.B.
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reviews of the dvd
E.Q.B.
"Well, I just sat and watched the Casino Cubano video. It is excellent....
this is a first level video. I hope that you release very soon a second
level and advanced level. It is great to hear the explanation in Spanish
and I found the English translation in a booklet. Great quality dancers,
methodology and excellent teacher. I recommend this video!!. I purchased
almost 11 Cuban style videos and this is my favorite."
A.B.
"I watched the videos many times over and over again. I am so delighted
with their content. Very easy to learn from. In fact it has answered so
many questions in my mind on how to do several things. Many things make
sense to me now after I have watched these two dancers. In brief, the best
I have seen in any beginner's instructional video."
L.A.
"My room-mate keeps saying "not that video again"! Needless to say, the
dancing in it is what I expected, purely exceptional..... Before going out,
I usually play it to "hype myself up."
C.D. "In Cubano Casino, it was good to
see real Cuban motion. I've taken salsa and merengue classes and I feel
the instructors don't know how to teach Cuban motion well."
