PI-MOZAMBI-SON
with Chaguito y Sus Timberos Cuban music jam session

Descarga in Spanish means to unload. The tradition of descarga in Cuba is about unloading creatively in music - a special form where musicians can improvise and interact with more freedom. To this end, descargas often have stripped down arrangements of a repeating melody line, strong bass, and percussion. With this rhythmic groove solid, individual musicians have permission to solo, invent, and stretch out.

Salsa Cubana Styling

The "Mueve La Cintura" (Move Your Hips) DVD focuses on Cuban salsa dance styling as well as other Cuban dance forms that have been the inspiration and foundation for all the different salsa styles danced throughout the World.

RUEDA DE CASINO COLLECTION
salsa Cubana circle dancing - from Santiago de Cuba

Rueda de Casino is a lively popular Cuban dance form in which couples partner dance in a circle and perform routines that are called by a leader.

This dvd consists of two titles -

1. Rueda de Buen Ache features a group of professional dancers from Santiago de Cuba who demonstrate how they dance together at their own spirited house parties doing rueda de casino as well as trios and cuartetos de casino (one man dancing with two and three women)

2. Rueda Fresca
Rueda Fresca (Fresh Wheel) features two amateur dance troupes of young people from Santiago de Cuba whose specialty is rueda de casino. These dancers are representative of a growing number of Cuban youth who are reconnecting with this dance tradition and making it their own by inventing new turns, moves, and stylings. While still popular as a fun party actively, the latest wave of rueda de casino from Cuba is designed for performance.

RUMBAMBEO
cajón-batá-rumba
with Chaguito y Sus Timberos - Afro-Cuban rumba and folklore

Rumbambeo is an Afro-Cuban music and dance performance of a unique gathering of some of the most outstanding musicians, singers, and dancers in Cuba today.

with Rumberos de Cuba
a rumba party performance

"Rumbon Tropical" features the Cuban music and dance group "Rumberos de Cuba" in an intimate party-performance. The setting is a lush outdoor patio garden near the river Almendares in Havana, Cuba.

(Hot Loose Salsa)
salsa Cubana danced in lines

SALSA SUELTA means "loose salsa" ...salsa danced without a partner. Have you seen those great step routines many salsa band members do on stage? The Cubans call it salsa suelta.

Similar to rueda de casino, salsa suelta is initiated when people want to party and dance together as a larger group. But instead of dancing in a circle as in rueda, salsa suelta is danced in lines.

Tremendo Vacilon - a panorama of Cuban music & dance

"Tremendo Vacilon" is an eclectic panorama of music and dance in Cuba today, celebrating the diversity, artistry, and passion of people enjoying and performing their music and dance traditions. Shot in Havana and Santiago, the film consists of 18 intimate performance events, some formal and others spontaneous, that display the range of Cuban genres.

Carnaval La Habana 2003

The chorus "U Laka Laka La" was on everyone's lips in Carnaval La Habana 2003, a call to dance, celebrate, and let it all hang out. Carnaval in Havana is a tropical deluge of color, gyrating hips, and vibrant drumming; the life blood of the Cuban people - a marvel to behold.

instruction in the traditional popular dances of Cubadanzón - son - chachachá

"Un Trio Inseparable" is a master class for all lovers of salsa, Latin dance, and Latin music, who want to learn and fully explore the three essential popular dance forms of Cuba from which all modern styles of salsa developed - the danzón, son, and chachachá.  

beginning - intermediate levels

Tempo | Medium upper

Playing bad boy hits like '"Malanga Amarilla" definitely geared for the hardcore Salsa dancer. This one is totally wicked.