Casino de Rueda de CUBA!!!!

I've been salsa dancing Cuban style for almost a year now and since summer 2006 I've joined an all female performance group!! Rueda is so much fun! It consists of couples dancing in a circle with a leader calling out certain moves that everyone performes together, changing partners as you...sort of like line dancing but in a circle. Of course Cuba is the latin country where the spirit lives in the music, the dancing and the people and that is so beautifully demonstrated in the rueda dance.


It's funny to see in Vancouver, the 'North Americanization" of latin dancing, the so called LA style where skill is flaunted in super fancy twists, head spinning twirls and back breaking acrobatic moves. We're keeping it real though, Caribbean style.

So until I get our videos youtubed here is the best salsa in the world, the CUBAN RUEDA CHAMPS!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ebGJKyPZ_Ss&mode=related&search=


And a wonderful short little documentary rueda, you have got to watch this!


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xJVe0rrMFKY


We are so seriously salsa addicted, that one of the ladies has started a salsa blog for our group.

http://salsaruedaallstars.blogspot.com/