From a discussion on Facebook that I report to be fair:
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Topic: Young people prefer Cuban or Puerto Rican??
Stefano Djloco Author:
Hello guys the second argument to talk about what style is and what music you prefer and why you prefer ..... the answer .......!
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what I wrote below, and since the I could affect even those who are not included in that group, I thought I'd copy it here, available to those who follow me. however insert a link to the original question, to be fair and that you may read comments later:
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Cubans and Puerto Ricans are two different styles of salsa, very often we hear that one is more beautiful than the other and vice versa, we often hear people say that one is more the other hard, and so on.
The two styles have different origins and have evolved in different places and historical moments, in different living conditions.
The Cuban born spontaneously by slaves imported from Africa, bears the influences of English culture, especially in the area of \u200b\u200bHavana, but also of English culture, French, Portuguese, especially in the area of \u200b\u200bSantiago de Cuba
The merger of these many ways of dancing, lots of music, the influence of the nearby Santo Domingo and Haiti, was born what we now call salsa, musically speaking.
Ok, now I rimproverereai Stephen because of the music discuss this in another discussion, but I can not help but talk about it here because the dance is based on body movement to music, there are arguments that travel on different paths.
The Puerto Rican salsa, however, arises from the Puerto Ricans in the Bronx who fled the island and created their own Puerto Rican neighborhood.
Unlike Cuban slaves, however, that unlike the others, thanks to the English colonization enjoyed a modicum of freedom compared to slaves in areas colonized mainly from Portugal, France and England, they claimed the status of Puerto Rican freedom gained and a neighborhood in the Bronx was like, difficult to survive, were all to enjoy the respect of everyone else intimidating with all the violence and creating bands where everyone was competing with others to be the most feared.
arise is where the different postures, especially in the curve of slavery and the Cuban rumba, the habit of constant work in the fields remain folded for hours, or carry weights always absurd on its back, and an upright, fair , of Puerto Ricans, no longer slaves but with newfound freedom, in which each of them must be the highest, shall rise up more than others and never, never, should lower their gaze as a sign of weakness and inferiority.
Posture differences arise from different ways to interpret the dance.
legs bent in the Cuban style features facilitate the movements of the pelvis and posture bent forward, free from the man back and forth movements of the shoulders, especially in such important and obvious rumba.
posture erect, almost on tiptoe to look even taller than others, the impetus comes from the bottom up in the Puerto Rican salsa (unlike the one that goes from top to bottom in Cuba) severely restricts movements of the pelvis and shoulder movements that, at most, can move sideways or slightly circular way.
Puerto Rican style appears to be so full of gestures, especially women, something different from what happens when the Cuban people and especially women sway dramatically even with movements of different types thus resulting in a very elegant and refined.
Cuban style is unlike most closely with the ground, with the life of every day, more spontaneous.
Cubans danced in every moment they were allowed, using tools of luck as the boxes of fish sticks or recovered from the shipyard in L'Habana (the famous claves).
Like the ancient people of the prehistoric painted caves in the stages of their lives, Cubans danced their experiences, life in the camps and construction sites, the foamiglie in life and their children, their Orischas, that their gods in various religions on the island.
Movements of the Cuban people are more spontaneous than Puerto Ricans, the small gestures make the movement more natural and easier to change at any time.
The dance of Puerto Ricans is more technical, more elaborate, though not necessarily easier or more difficult than the Cuban, but because of the wealth of gestures is colder.
Mind you, without giving rise to unwarranted controversy, the Puerto Rican dancers (or styles derived from it such as Los Angeles or New York Style Style) for years, now has acquired all the movements and perform them in a spontaneous and natural, but this usually happens after years of studies and dances.
In the early years (time varies depending on the person and the type of study-training practices) of the Puerto Rican dance, one can hardly see a ball from the fluid movements and not built mentally, then the beauty of Puerto Rico will vote to better.
Cuban Woman "lives" his man in the ball, touches it, caresses it, smell it, as opposed to Puerto Rican that keeps him at a distance, it almost never agree to be close to him.
Even in the front, the Puerto Rican, supports only the tip of a few fingers of your left hand on his shoulder, as if to say that can not stand to hear the sweat, the smell.
In dance there is a continuing challenge in the couple already, and one of the couples present, everyone, whether man or woman, must show that it is the best of all.
the contrary in the couple of Cuba there are no challenges, there is evidence of man's masculinity, and femininity of the woman in a tangible way, that shows how much good can be both sexually and as a woman of the house, and makes everything to show it to her man.
The Puerto Rican female sensuality of the woman is more refined and at a distance, always to defy the man, always trying to keep up with him, even in the many rounds he can to help her.
sensuality is a remote, very strong but at a distance and not close as in Cuba, much more engaging for both.
said that, while dancing to better express our personality, our character, what is our spontaneity, and I am much better or dance the salsa (although teaching also Puerto Rican, but in that case it is technique of dance, not dance on the track).
I think that music is a set of vibrations, and our body perceives them as a tuning fork.
The tuning fork vibrates only if they receive the musical note that is calibrated, and so our body goes into vibrating spontaneously depending on the type of music that feels like its own, and the movements that follow are linked to the music, more rounded in Cuban and Puerto Rican in liù linear.
I love getting lost with my partner, find the feeling with it, abetting, light dancing on a cloud as white and soft, turning with her in the middle of a whirlwind of sounds from the colors of the rainbow where nothing and nobody is all around us, where our bodies become an all one and move along with the music.
I love getting lost in her eyes, but also to dance with my eyes closed, cheek to cheek even if you allow it.
The fact of Cuban dance music on a Cuban, and Puerto Rico on the Puerto Rican, is absolutely right, but always remember that the sauce is played by many instruments, and as a very rich soup, we can have many elements, strong or larger than others, but the pace is the same that characterizes the sauce.
I find it absurd dance a Puerto Rican, or worse, a New York style on a rumba, but if your Puerto Rican music in our ears can distinguish the sounds of the Cuban leadership, and our body goes also with this vibrating, why not dance?
Freelance for Puerto Rico to Cuban music.
Logically there are pieces of distinctly Cuban and Puerto Rican style that can not be danced spontaneously with other styles.
The music and dance that is both fun, involvement and feeling, and errors and misunderstandings ... All right, sir, do not let's make a play if we are not doing a show or a race, ridiamoci up and continue to dance.
As you can see I am absolutely focused on the obvious differences that are very often described as dancing in a line, or circle, the type of speed mainly left to the right of the Puerto Rican and Cuban, the type of support of the foot, from toe to heel, in two different sauces, the action of pushing the Puerto Rican, Cuban absent in, for example, but I tried to highlight the inherent differences of the two dances, and explain why I love to dance salsa Cuban teaching but also Puerto Rican.
After expressing an opinion on the style of sauce, whether it is better looking one or the other, whether we like it more, etc., is exactly how to make comparisons on clothing women: some women are better in short skirts, other with the skirt to the knee, others in loose or tight pants.
Nevertheless, the garments except for one, can be worn and make a good figure on the other.
The right dress is what makes us feel at ease in a situation where we are right and the ball is the one most suited to our way of being.
And now, rather than arguing about this or that style of sauce, because we do not hang around the schools of the best salsa instructors of various styles and there follow the lessons we try to figure out which style fits directly most of us and what we think we can start teaching more successful in learning the features and create a feeling with which even educational?
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