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What is Salsa?

Salsa is a Latin dance associated with the music genre of the same name which was first popularised in the United States in the 1960s in New York City. Salsa is an amalgamation of Cuban dances such as mambo, pachanga, and rumba as well as American dances such as swing and tap.

It was primarily developed by Puerto Ricans and Cubans living in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Different regions of Latin America and the United States (including countries in the Caribbean) have distinct salsa styles of their own, such as Cuban, Puerto Rican, Colombian, and New York styles. Salsa dance socials are commonly held in nightclubs, bars, ballrooms, restaurants, and outside, especially when part of an outdoor festival.

Salsa's tempo ranges from about 150 bpm (beats per minute) to around 250 bpm, although most dancing is done to music somewhere between 160 and 220 bpm. The basic Salsa dance rhythm consists of taking three steps for every four beats of music. The odd number of steps creates the syncopation inherent to salsa dancing and ensures that it takes eight beats of music to loop back to a new sequence of steps.

What are the benefits of salsa dance lessons and courses?

There are many benefits of salsa dance lessons and courses. One of them is it burns calories & boosts Metabolism. Everyone wants to burn calories and even though we start out slowly in dance by learning technique, eventually Salsa dancing becomes a great workout that can burn up to 600 calories per hour.