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Salsa Dance - The game of Exotic Dancing

July 1st, 2010 by soul4dance

Salsa dance is the highly energetic dance with sensation of sweeping the globe. Dancers have to be extremely actually fit and that need to display high levels of athletic agility. Due to its fun and rhythmic nature, salsa dancing has been slowly started to become very accepted all over the world. From America to India, young people are going the crazy learning and practicing this very interesting dance form.

Salsa Dance

Salsa Dance

Salsa was born in Cuba and it has many years ago. It was basically a mixture of many dances that were brought in by the migrants to Cuba which are mixed very well with the traditional Son dance of Cuba and something unique and innovative was born. The name Salsa means pulp but it is meant to denote the mixture of so many dances in the final products. It can also refer to the hot nature of the dance which is pretty sexual in some of the moves the dancers perform.

There are numerous versions of the dance with names like Casino, Miami Style Casino, Rueda de Casino and Cali Salsa. Even although the dancing styles have been changed, the original dance is still practiced and is a very amusing and exciting dance to do. Social dancing, under which the salsa falls, has many health benefits from matching muscles, to reducing the stress levels in a person to helping a person lose weight as well. It is said that the salsa dancing actually burns 420 calories an hour, which is also almost the same as cycling for an hour.

If more people took part in an athletic dance routine like salsa or even went to their local club and the danced for a few hours they are would feel a lot healthier for it. Maybe they should not wash away all the hard work they are just did by drinking gallons of beer.

Paddy Jones, 75yrs old grandma, the winner of famous Spanish TV Show ‘You’ve Got Talent’

December 12th, 2009 by Jessy

Salsa dancing: Paddy Jones, a 75 years old British grandmother is the winner of Spanish ‘got talent’ show, which is equivalent of “Britain’s Got Talent” show. She won with an amazing gymnastic salsa routines. She stunned audience and judges with her flips, leaps, shimmies, spin and slide, regardless of age.

Jones, who stays in Spain, was originally from Stourbridge in the West Midlands. Actually Jones is a grandmother of seven and she learned salsa dancing five years ago, after the death of her husband.

She came with Nico, 40 years junior dance instructor and performed with a dark and tight dress.The judges were shocked as she blew the crowd away. The pair won $15,000 for their victory.

Jones said to the London Times, “I feel I’m very lucky for what I do and I will continue as long as I can and I’m the living proof to prove that age is not a barrier”.