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Subject: Salsaro or Salsera ?
From: andy
Date: Friday 20th December 2002, 6:57 pm

Depends what you mean by that. If you are going to teach and/or dj (and pretty much all teachers dj, even if it's only for their own classes) then you need to know a fair amount about the music to do that and pretty much all the really top level dancers teach/dj.

However there are a lot of people (and I'd count myself amongst that) who are reasonably good dancers (better than the overall average) who choose not to teach/dj and who, like myself, don't wish to become experts on Salsa music beyond knowing what sorts of thing I like to dance too.

Part of the art of dancing socially is to be able to improvise to what the music is doing, after all, and there's a big difference between doing that and dancing something that you know will fit becuase you know the track intimately.

The latter may be better for show dancing or competitions, but that's not what I do.

   
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