Stop in at any of these clubs and you will see non stop dancing.  The crowd dancing almost continuously for hours. It is obvious that Salsa has many benefits and below are just a few.

1 – It’s very social and for many becomes their big night out where they meet up with friends, dance and have a drink and a bite to eat.

2 – For anyone who hates gyms, you can view these social events as a complete workout, based on my personal experience.

3 – It gets the heart rate going and the blood pumping.

4 – The legs, ankles, arms, shoulders and hips, in fact, the whole body, is being exercised all at once, all at the same time.

5 – It’s a great way of breaking new ground and learning something different with the person you love. Apart from socializing with a partner, there’s an opportunity to meet new people and add to your circle of friends.?

Couples who take part in Latin ballroom dancing move together as a unit. The dancers stand facing each other with a small space in between. Sometimes partners close the gap between them to add to the romantic effect. Whether their bodies touch or not, they place their hands on each other to create an endless visual line. Unlike traditional ballroom styles, many Latin dances do not consist of moving across the floor. Instead, couples share an intimate space as they complement each other’s moves.

The music used in Latin style dancing has a unique flair and a consistent number of beats. It can be slow and romantic or lively and flirtatious. The music sets the pace for the dancers to tell a story through movement. The choice of attire varies with the manner of dance. Costumes range from classically elegant to stunning and extravagant. The flair of Latin style is conveyed through the combination of imaginative outfits, movement, and music.

Latin ballroom dancing is physically expressive, energetic, and breathtaking. It is a creative way to experience the flavor of Latin America and the beauty of dance.

In the early 16th century, many Africans were brought as slaves to various Latin and European countries. The Africans brought their culture, especially their native rhythmic dancing with them. For recreation the African slaves would make drums out of whatever was available. They would tap their hands and feet, making rhythms no one had ever heard before. The Africans would then bring those rhythms alive with the native dancing! Europeans already had their own unique type of music and dance. Eventually, the natives of other Spanish countries immediately fell in love with the beautiful african dancing, and began to copy it, and fuse it into their own native latin dance. The result was variety of unique and beautiful latin dancing styles such as merengue, salsa, bachata, lambada, cumbia, cha cha, rueda, and many others.

Many governments and religions tried to stop this fusion of African and European dancing. However they were not successful. Eventually as the centuries passed, latin style music and dancing branched out even more to different types of dancing. For example, the fusion of African and Brazilian dancing gave birth to “Samba”. The mixture of Haitian dancing in the Dominican Republic created “merengue”. The dances of the Africans mixed with the traditional dances in Cuba to create “cha cha”, and “rumba”.

Today, latin dance is more popular than ever. It has even become a part of American pop culture. It’s important to appreciate it’s unique history.

Tango dancing is popular everywhere today. Perhaps it is the wide leg movements, which seem to gracefully draw shapes as the dancers move across the floor, that attract more and more people to tango dancing and ballroom dancing in general. Maybe it’s the slow, sensual movements. Whatever the reason, it is something that anyone can enjoy.

It is a type of ballroom dancing that many new European immigrants began to take up. It is fun and the steps are fairly easily learned. However, learning and mastering are two different things. The beauty of tango dancing, though, is that each couple can interpret the dance in whatever way they want to. It is a great tension and stress relieving activity. It’s all about expressing yourself and letting the music and the moment flow through you.

This king of dance has a very interesting history; you might want to learn about. For instance, unlike some other forms of ballroom dancing, it was often done by lower and middle classes. Upper-class society frowned upon it. Therefore, the tango was not as widely spread.

Luckily, in today’s society, it is alive and well, though, although not quite the same as it used to be. It has been adapted many times, so it still has an air of mystery surrounding it. The original, traditional form of tango is hard to find, these days, but one thing everyone can agree on is that, no matter what version of the tango it is, tango dancing is one of the most romantic forms of dance.

The history of tango dancing is still disputed by experts. Many believe that it is a sort of compilation of dancing techniques from many different cultures and that it doesn’t have one true root source.

One reason that you should try it as a hobby is because it’s a skill that you will keep with you forever. Once you learn how to Tango Dance then it’s very unlikely that you’ll forget anytime soon. It’s a trait that will stick with you forever, you can probably even teach your children and grandchildren how to dance eventually.

Another reason is because it is a workout at the same time. How great is that? You can skip your daily workout (if you have one) by dancing instead! It sounds crazy, but it can be a very strenuous workout if it done for a long time.

Last but not least, is the fact that dancing the tango is a skill that most people will admire and want to learn about. You will be able to dance whenever a song comes on at a wedding or wherever else.

Salsa is a dance for Salsa music created by the Spanish speaking people from the Caribbean. Salsa dancing is a fine elegant mixture of African and European dance influences through the music and dance fusions that are the roots of Salsa. Salsa dancing is closely related to “dirty dancing”.

Salsa is usually a couple partner dance although there are also solo forms, line dancing (suelta), and Rueda de Casino where groups of couples exchange partners in a circle. The Salsa dance can also be improvised or performed with a set routine.

The Rumba style of ballroom dancing is sometimes known as the Latin Waltz. The American Rumba is a variation of a slow rhythmed Cuban dance called the “Son” that was brought to the United States in the 1920s. The Rumba is danced on the spot, rather than all over the dance floor, with hip and other body movements in a slow, quick, quick beat.

The Modern Waltz style of ballroom dancing comes from the Austria Waltzen styles of ballroom dancing popular in Austria and Germany in the early 1900s. The Boston Waltz became popular in the United States in 1834 and is a slower version of the Viennese Waltz. Today, the Waltz still remains as a slow type of ballroom dancing and the slower tempo has allowed the Waltz to have more figures, dips and steps added to it.

The Foxtrot is a form of ballroom dancing chereographed by Harry Fox in 1914 in New York City. The Foxtrot involves moving the back leg in a smooth action, although there are many versionss of the Foxtrot. The original Foxtrot was faster and not as smooth and stylish as some of the variations danced today. However, the faster Foxtrot style of ballroom dancing is still taught in many modern ballroom dancing studios and danced in many modern ballrooms.

The Cha Cha was originally called the Cha Cha Cha because its main tempo movement is based on a triple step. The Cha Cha style of ballroom dancing originated in the Cuban Mambo and became popular in the United States in the 1950s. The Cha Cha triple step is danced in between two rock beat movements. This dance form is perhaps the most popular ballroom dance style in the world.

The early tango was known as tango criollo. Today, there are many tango dance styles, including Argentine Tango, Uruguayan Tango, Ballroom tango, American and International tango styles, Finnish tango and vintage tangos. What many tango dancers consider to be the authentic tango is that closest to that originally danced in Argentina and Uruguay athough other forms of tango have developed into more mature dances in their own right.

The Jive is a dance style in 4/4 tempo that was originated in the United States from African-Americans in the early 1940s. It is a lively and uninhibited variation of the Jitterbug, a form of Swing dance.

Jive is one of the five International Latin dances. In competition it is danced at a speed of 44 bars per minute, although in other cases this is reduced to between 32 and 40 bars per minute. Many of the jive’s basic patterns are similar to these of the East Coast Swing with the major difference of highly syncopated rhythm of the Triple Steps (Chasses), which use straight eighths in ECS and hard swing in Jive. That is why the jive is closely related to lindy hop and jitterbug ballroom dance form.

If you have always wanted to try something different for fun then try enrolling in a salsa dance class so the next time you are at your favorite club you can show everyone your hot dance steps. With the proper teaching, pretty much anyone can learn how to do a salsa dance. If you can’t afford lessons or just do not want to take the time to take lessons, then simply feel the beat and see where your body takes you. Watching other peoples do the salsa is another good way of learning how to do the dance steps if you do not want to take lessons.

Whatever inspires you to take salsa dance lessons or if you just go out to a club to dance the salsa the truth is you will have fun. It is a good way to get in your exercise for the day as well as have fun with your significant other. Men and women of all ages can enjoy doing this heavy rhythmic dance, let yourself be one of them.