Rueda de casino

Rueda de casino is a Latin American group dance that is danced to salsa music in general. It is ideal for six to ten couples, but can dance and more couples with less ( even with only two ).

Translated, Rueda wheel The name comes from the fact that all couples involved forming a circle, where they synchronously dancing the same figures. Due to change of partners, each belonging to the figures danced, the Rueda or the wheel turns Like a wheel is a main focus of all the dancers in the middle, as the axis of the wheel. A person makes doing the Cantante (English Caller ), the announcer. This determines which character is dancing next, and the command for the character for everyone involved says loudly. Occasionally, hand signals are used, especially if it's too loud to clearly hear spoken commands. Rueda is originally from Cuba.

The figures are in contrast to square dance or round dance, which is also danced to commands, not normalized, for example, as a rule, so that the Rueda groups of different teachers can not easily dance together. Therefore, Rueda Miami Style is increasingly by many dance schools, in which the characters and commands are defined. Although the name " Miami Style" refers to North America, Rueda is originally Cuban. Miami Style Rueda looks more elegant than the traditional Rueda and has as an important element of style the ladies turn on 1,2,3 rather than 5,6,7.

In Havana you can every Sunday on the Malecón right the tunnel towards Vedado Restaurant Jardines del 1830 when Matinee make a more or less strong group of older Rueda dancers. They say of themselves that they have come up with the principle of Rueda de Casino about 50 years ago and was first implemented. They dress all in white and often also have a membership card with the inscription " Fundador de la Rueda de Casino ", the show they like and proud.