Comments on: Le Moving http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2005/07/10/le-moving/ A Term of Endearment Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:32:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: site admin http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2005/07/10/le-moving/#comment-923 site admin Thu, 29 Dec 2005 23:19:06 +0000 /?p=49#comment-923 Lantys, Don't worry your English is clearly much much better than my French! That's funny about the hip movement in Bachata. I always thought it looked funny when guys were doing it. lol. Where do you dance? - Nicole Lantys,

Don’t worry your English is clearly much much better than my French!

That’s funny about the hip movement in Bachata. I always thought it looked funny when guys were doing it. lol.

Where do you dance?

- Nicole

]]> By: Lantys http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2005/07/10/le-moving/#comment-906 Lantys Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:29:24 +0000 /?p=49#comment-906 Just found your blog by chance while doing some google search and thought i could make myself useful by bringing you some precisions (hoping my English will not look too "French" ^^). About the two other kinds of music you danced/listened to : * the one with the hip movement is called "bachata". A famous bachata song is "Obsecion" from the "Aventura" band, you've probably already heard it. Also please note that the hip movement is not necessary. The thing is that, in Dominican Republic (where the bachata comes from), people almost never do the hip movement and when we (French people) go there and start dancing bachata like we've been taught in Paris, they make fun of us, especially of guys, because it's not considered being a "manly styling movement". ^^; * the other kind of music (which is like salsa in slow motion) is probably the "merengue", also coming from Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Islands in general (as far as i know). The other main difference with salsa is that there are no pause in the basic step in merengue, whereas in salsa cuban style you have pauses on 4 and 8 and in the puertorican style you have pauses on 1 and 5. Well it's not exactly true for the puertorican style because there are actually many puertorican style variants : it's true for the Palladium style which is said to be danced "on 2" (i.e. with pauses on 1 and 5), but wrong for the New York style and Los Angeles style which are danced "on 1" like cuban style, but still are considered puertorican styles. Actually, the puertorican style should be renamed something like "all-other-non-cuban" style. Eeeek, i'm starting to get into too theoretical and dogmatic considerations, sorry 'bout that. :) Just keep dancing and spice up your life with salsa! Feel free to contact me (lantys@gmail.com) if you have any questions regarding salsa and afro-caribbean dances (chachacha, bachata, merengue, bolero...). Maybe we'll meet on some salsa dancefloors someday! Have fun, - Lantys, salsero & salsa-puertorican-style-wannabe-teacher - Just found your blog by chance while doing some google search and thought i could make myself useful by bringing you some precisions (hoping my English will not look too “French” ^^).

About the two other kinds of music you danced/listened to :

* the one with the hip movement is called “bachata”. A famous bachata song is “Obsecion” from the “Aventura” band, you’ve probably already heard it. Also please note that the hip movement is not necessary. The thing is that, in Dominican Republic (where the bachata comes from), people almost never do the hip movement and when we (French people) go there and start dancing bachata like we’ve been taught in Paris, they make fun of us, especially of guys, because it’s not considered being a “manly styling movement”. ^^;

* the other kind of music (which is like salsa in slow motion) is probably the “merengue”, also coming from Dominican Republic and the Caribbean Islands in general (as far as i know). The other main difference with salsa is that there are no pause in the basic step in merengue, whereas in salsa cuban style you have pauses on 4 and 8 and in the puertorican style you have pauses on 1 and 5. Well it’s not exactly true for the puertorican style because there are actually many puertorican style variants : it’s true for the Palladium style which is said to be danced “on 2″ (i.e. with pauses on 1 and 5), but wrong for the New York style and Los Angeles style which are danced “on 1″ like cuban style, but still are considered puertorican styles. Actually, the puertorican style should be renamed something like “all-other-non-cuban” style.

Eeeek, i’m starting to get into too theoretical and dogmatic considerations, sorry ’bout that. :) Just keep dancing and spice up your life with salsa!

Feel free to contact me (lantys@gmail.com) if you have any questions regarding salsa and afro-caribbean dances (chachacha, bachata, merengue, bolero…). Maybe we’ll meet on some salsa dancefloors someday!

Have fun,

- Lantys, salsero & salsa-puertorican-style-wannabe-teacher -

]]> By: site admin http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2005/07/10/le-moving/#comment-488 site admin Mon, 22 Aug 2005 13:23:46 +0000 /?p=49#comment-488 Thank you! Fixed it. You should have seen how I spelled "dile que no" at first! But I've already corrected it. :) Thank you! Fixed it. You should have seen how I spelled “dile que no” at first! But I’ve already corrected it. :)

]]> By: Pierre http://www.stubbornella.org/content/2005/07/10/le-moving/#comment-481 Pierre Thu, 11 Aug 2005 17:37:07 +0000 /?p=49#comment-481 Sorry to have to break your already good french, but what you call the "pates base" is really "pas de bases", said with a spenglish accent "passe te baze" => "pates base". Which is exactly what your mean by base steps ! Ooh! Sorry to have to break your already good french, but what you call the “pates base” is really “pas de bases”, said with a spenglish accent “passe te baze” => “pates base”. Which is exactly what your mean by base steps !

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