Glossary of dance moves#Cross-body lead

The cross body lead is the basic element in the "New York Style" and " LA Style " dance styles of Latin American salsa. He is there to change sides and opening of the partners. Related people find themselves in the Cha -Cha -Cha and the Rumba, where they are referred to as a "fan ". The English name is geared to the dance technique of the man: Feet cross - body rotation - lead woman.

In Cuban "Casino " is the appropriate figure " Dile que no" ( Spanish: Tell him "no"). What is meant is that the woman turns away in the rotation by her dance partner and playfully gives him a basket. The man completes the figure by around but then pulls the wife.

Even if the "Cross Body Lead " and " Dile que no " stylistic match, they differ in the dance details. The "Cross Body Lead " is danced exactly in line and the woman does not turn as opposed to " Dile que no " from my partner.

The "Cross Body Lead ", or the " Dile que no " is mainly danced in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States, which he has got from there to Europe. On the Latin American mainland, the figure is largely unknown.

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