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Summary: Learn how to dance in the Afro-Cuban style, including tips on dance steps for women, in this free video Latin dance lesson for beginners
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Alex Ruiz Alex Ruiz is a dance instructor at Salsa Mia. Salsa Ma began February 15, 2005 on South Beach in Miami, Florida in the spirit of fun and friendship reminiscen... read more
On behalf of expertvillage.com, my name is Alex Ruiz from Miami Beach, Florida with Salsa Mia dance studio, and today we’re going to teach you Afro-Cuban music. Okay, so how you saw in our last video, when I really do Afro-Cuban, there’s not as many turns. What you want to do is you want to be creative in the way you work your arms. This is for beginners. Now girls, what you want to do when you do Afro-Cuban, you want to do the same as the guys do, but what you might want to do is you might want to play with you hair a little bit. You want to go 1, and 1. You might want to do that. Now, also as you do that girls, make sure that you put the opposite hand right here where your leg brace. Now go and 1, hand. You do the same thing backwards. Make sure your hand comes in front of your head first. And 1, okay make sure you do it. Now, there could be also many ways you can do it. If you decide to use the same arm, meaning, you go side with the left , put this make sure it goes the opposite way.