Basic Steps of Salsa Dancing

As you can see, the first steps of salsa dancing is very clear and easy to do. Let's focus on your feet and try the first steps!

Benefits of Latin Dancing

Do you like hearing latin songs or latin melodies? Please try dancing! I ensure you that it will worth to try this beautiful type of dance. Especially women should try latin dancing because it will help you to lose weight. For example, a person weighing 150-pounds can burn over 420 calories per hour salsa dancing. If you go to an aerobic Latin dance class, such as Zumba, a 150 pound you can burn over 540 calories in just one hour! Today, in almost all countries, there is a problem of "obesity". We get used to eat "fast food" beacuse as the name implies it is served fast and unfortunately delicious. That is why we choose to eat fast food and so we start to get fatter as a new generation. As a consequence of getting fatter, we became unhappy, stressful and diffident individuals. If you go to a psychologist, s/he will mostly suggest you to take a walk 3 or 4 times in a week, to sport or to do physical exercises and to dance! As I mentioned before, if you like latin songs or melodies you must try latin dancing. It has many benefits such as losing weigth, relaxing your body and your mind, learning different cultures, helps to lower risk of heart disease, socializing with others. Besides, it is important for women to look sexy, I mean, when you dance the types of latin dance you feel like you are the hottest girl/woman in the world! This will increase your self-confidence that you feel inside. 

Latin Dance

Basic Information about  "Latin Dance"

The history of Latin Dance dates back when there had been slavery in the world. Undoubtedly, it originated from Latin America. The most popular types of Latin Dances are:

• Salsa
• Cha-cha-cha (generally called as "cha cha")
• Bachata
• Merengue
• Samba
• Mambo
• Rumba
• Bolero
• Cumbia   

In addition to all, according to some references and latin dance instructors; Tango is another latin dance type. There are numerous types and styles of traditional latin dance in Latin America but the types showed below considered as formal which means "Ballroom latin dances" :

• Paso doble
• Cha-cha-cha
• Jive
• Samba
• Rumba