Basic Salsa Dancing Stance

Part of the Video Series How to Dance the Salsa

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Learn the basic stance for salsa dancing in this free instructional video on beginning Latin dance.

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Best salsa series I've seen on here. For me black shoes/pants against black floor made it hard to see feet sometimes at this quality.

Video Transcript

Basic Salsa Dancing Stance
Welcome to Miami! This is Salsa Mia at Yuka Lounge on South Beach. My name is Susan and this is Alex. We’re going to show you the basic steps of salsa. You can find us on the web at salsamia.com. On behalf of expertvillage.com, we welcome you. We’re going to start with you first basic. Before we get started I’m going to tell you the way you should stand before you start dancing. As you can see our feet are together and looking forward and I have my hands up. Okay. Now, when you dance salsa, you could think about it like marching. You never use the same food twice and you keep your hands up. Now, what we’re going to do after every 3 counts you’re always going to come back to our starting position. The first basic, all we’re going to do is left, right, together. Then we’re going to go right, left, together. As you can see, every time we take a count, the first thing you see is my knee. So once again, you go left, right, together, and right, left, together. One more time, 1, 2, 3, back, 2, 3, forward, 2, 3, back, 2, and 3.

About the Expert

Expert: Alex Ruiz is a dance instructor at Salsa Mia, which began on South Beach in Miami, Florida in the spirit of fun and friendship, reminiscent of the days of a Cuban club called Starfish. Read More