Improve salsa moves

When you are dancing salsa in a dance floor there are two points that you should always keep in mind: salsa rhythm and salsa dance moves. At Salsa Dance Moves we are going to focus on to improve your dance moves.

So, let’s get better:

  • style or styles of each salsa move
  • quantity of salsa moves
  • and obviously the salsa move itself

Increase your salsa steps, and get better your style in social salsa dancing

You will learn dance moves of the great dancers right on the ballroom, watching their amazing salsa dances.

But, what’s the difference with other dance videos on youtube?

The difference is how Salsa Dance Moves processes these salsa dances.

Salsa Dance Moves is always collecting fantastic dances, cutting them down into short moves to later classify them according to the initial and final position of the dancers in the movement.

It really turns internet salsa videos into a classified video library of salsa moves

Salsa Dance Moves turns youtube salsa videos into a classified video library of salsa moves

You will find all kinds of short movements: elegant, surprising, stylish, fun, easy, complex,… Let’s start with an example:

Artists: Beige & Rok. Place: GRAZy Salsa & Bachata Festival. Video: Social Dance TVShort move from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt7f_Bu2OE8

How does Salsa Dance Moves website improve your dance moves?

The most important parts of the classified video library of salsa moves are:

  • Obviously, short salsa moves
  • Drawings that show the initial position and the final position of the couple in each salsa movement

So, you’ll improve your salsa dancing level by watching short moves (usually less than 5 seconds) of great salsa dancers in a social dance.

In the collage below you can see some drawings representing common positions (initial and/or final) of dancers during a salsa dance.

It's a collage with some drawings representing common positions (initial and/or final) of dancers during a salsa dance. Let's improve dance moves

Drawings representing dance couples

On the Salsa Dance Moves website you’ll find many drawings representing the different positions that dance couples usually take.

Let’s see an exemple. In the drawing below you can see the initial position (drawing of the dance couple on the left) and the final position (drawing of the dance couple on the right) of a short move.

Two drawings of a dance couple, representing the initial position and the final position of a salsa move

But also, in the lower left part of the drawing there are some digits, specifically 39/2005. In fact these numbers mean that, at this time, in Salsa Dance Moves there were 2005 movements, of which 39 corresponded to moves that start with the position of the dance couple on the left and end with the position of the dance couple on the right.

Let’s see an example. Of course, the video below is one of these 39 short dance moves you can find on the website.

Artists: Cecile Ovide & Terry SalsAlianza. Place: A Gozar Arachova Salsa Bachata Meeting. Video: Starmambovideo
Short move from  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBIvubmSzC0

Let’s see another one of these 39 shorts salsa moves:

Artists: Barbara Hegyi & Sean Babatunde, Place: Vienna Salsa Congress, Video: Saoco social dance channel, Short move from https://vk.com/video-166417349_456241867

What are the advantajes of Salsa Dance Moves system?

  • It only takes a few seconds to remember and practice these short moves.
  • Whether you are the person following or leading, you’ll see some of the best salsa dancers performing moves you already know, the only difference beging the style. Let’s practice another move style.
  • As you will know more styles of the same move, you will be able to change style of some movements according to the music and the dance partner.
  • At the same time you’ll see moves that you don’t perform, which you can possibly use in future salsa dances. On the other hand, if you are a follower, this knowledge will be good for next dances.
  • You have to keep in mind that you will find many free steps performed by the dancers in social dancing. You just have to look for the drawings in which the two dancers are separated.
  • You can practice new short moves every time you go to a social dance. Obviously thanks to the fact that they are short.
  • And why not? In a sense you could say «I am taking salsa classes near me«


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