Christina Larionova

You wake up in the morning and what do you feel? Look out the window and what do you see? Maybe you’re hear something? Such a subtle and pleasant? I'm not talking about the neighbor who doesn’t sleep and he sings in the shower so that you can hear through the wall. Or musicians, who need to prepare for the exam tomorrow and he blows, that you think he never stops.

This ordinariness, which can be switched off and listen birds singing, wind noise, your breathing or heartbeat.

Have you ever thinking that has your own melody in your head which you’re understand, remember or have croon on way to shower, when you’re breakfast or on way to your work? Our body has its own rhythm, which sometimes is not noticeable, but it always is. It’s steps rhythm, breathing, voice. This is our own music, which we truly understand and love. Many people don’t pay attention of this, and some embody the music in the movements in dance.

There are quite a few areas of dance. I was lucky enough to know and love the ballroom, and more recently Caribbean dances.

To live in dance! It’s my motto. Perceive life as an endless tangle of different rhythms, moods, different dancers, and people around the world on various dancefloors. And what do you make a rhythm of their lives in this world? Do you like this rhythm?

Nowadays, such non-dance flow much to extend , as Cuban and Caribbean dance. Many people realizes these movements and melodies.

«Salsa». «Salsoteka in Donetsk». «Declared set». The infinite number of ads, but what is «salsa»?

Salsa (from the Spanish salsa - «sauce») - the musical style and dance of Cuban origin. Salsa - one of the main and dominant musical genres of the Hispanic population of the Caribbean and other regions of Latin America. Today it’s the world's most popular dance of Latin American origin.

Salsa homeland is Cuba, although this style is also a hybrid of Puerto Rican and Latin American styles mixed with pop music, jazz, rock and R&B.

There are many versions, how salsa was born. But at least they all agree: forebear Cuban Salsa should be considered a dream - a rhythm created by the end of the XIX century in Cuba.

Salsa has its own interesting history, which was born as a result of symbiosis between two cultures - European (Spanish-Arabic) and the African. Spaniards from the Afro-Cuban music inherited strings, melodies, and poetic form, and from the slaves of African (mostly Bantu tribes people, Yoruba and Karagan) - drums and various percussion instruments, the manner of division into a singer and choir and a unique style of performance, in which the chorus was repeated several times estribillo (chorus). The indigenous inhabitants, the Indians, the music does not change, because were cut off colonizers in Cuba almost completely. It is only about Areitos, symbol of music, dance and religious collective protests of indigenous people, but this Indian influence, as in the South and Central parts of South America, Cuba has not been observed.

Originally the dream was distributed mainly in eastern Cuba, especially in the Santiago and Sierra Maestra, as well as in the province of Guantanamo, and sounded at the festivals held there Chango. Gain popularity of this musical period was from 1892 through the artist Manfugas Nene (Nene Manfugas), do it with his group, Son Montuno, held in Santiago in the carnivals. The tool, which played Nene is a wooden box with three strings, and called the tres. And now it is considered one of the symbols of Sona. The very same chorus, a repetition in different variations of the key phrases the song became known as montuno. The main instruments used while in the performance of Sona, were referred to earlier tres, a guitar (as a legacy of the Spaniards), Bong, marakas, key (the last two are usually used by the soloist) and finally, marimbula and botiha (later replaced by double bass).

After the end of the war with Spain in 1898, the Cuban villagers brought the folk guitar melodies in Havana. In 1909, the dream is distributed throughout Cuba, and in 20 years of performing throughout sleep quartets are converted to sextet. The new sound at the end of the second decade of XX century, the rhythm gets when a standard tube joins a group of instruments, and become sextet septet. This happened, for example, the famous "Sexteto Habanero", which became the septet, although the name remained the same.

Oviedo Isak (Isaac Oviedo), one of the founders of Sona, learned to play guitar by watching other musicians, and later founded the group "Santiga Casaga" (used in the performance of timpani, accordion and guitar). In 1926 Oviedo brought the group "Sexteto Matanzero" in Havana. Then Orpheus Emilio (Emilio Orfe) created Dancon (Danzon) - style, using a violin, cello, flute and African drums. He led his first orchestra at the age of eleven years!

In 30 years an enormous impact on the Caribbean rhythms have a dream, then, to the extent of its distribution in North and South America, North American and Latin American, gradually leading him to what we now call salsa. Thus, the salsa is a fusion rhythms, such as:

a) Cuban: sleep (the salsa), danson and its derivatives: rumba (rumba), cha-cha-cha (cha-cha-cha), mambo (mambo)

b) North American: jazz, rock, swing

c) The Caribbean: the bomb, the exiles, Kumba

d) South American: samba, tango

There are several versions of the origin name "salsa". Is well known that salsa means "sauce." According to one version, a small club in Miami spoke one evening a group, performing Cuban music and the music is so "brought" the people present, all together started to shout: "Salsa! Salsa!", Implying that the music was as acute and hot as the sauce that seasoned dishes at this establishment.

According to another version, the title comes from a very popular in the early centuries of Cuban Son "Echale Salsita". According to this version, in the late 60's in the USA in Madison Square Garden (Madison Square Garden) was the grand concert by the Fania All Stars, in which Latin American Artists presented their "new invention" - the rhythm of boogaloo - nothing more than a modernized Cuban dream mixed with merengue, bossa nova, Kumba, cha-cha-cha, mambo, and boogie-woogie. Seeing how people from different parts of the American selflessly dancing under a new rhythm, Tito Puente (Tito Puente, 1923-2000) recollected the words of old Son, has spoken: "Esto es una gran salsa!", Which literally translates as "Great cous." Great Sonera meant that, as in the sauce, in the rhythm of the various ingredients are mixed, giving birth is extremely "delicious" mixture.

The word like more than the original name, and quickly spread throughout America. Currently, under the influence of modern rhythms of salsa is also undergoing changes. At the end of XX century, in particular, has created two such lines as "salsa dura" and "salsa nueva" (after the "tango nuevo" and "nuevo flamenco").

Salsa - the most popular music in Latin American dance clubs and is said to Ed Morales (Ed Morales), is to "Define a rhythm for the whole Latin American music." Music by Peter Manuel (Peter Manuel) has called this style "the most popular dance music of Puerto Rican and Cuban communities in the Central and South America, in the same genre that the composer described as« one of the most dynamic and significant Pan-American musical phenomena of the 70's and 80 -s ». Modern salsa remains a dance-oriented genre and is closely linked with the style of salsa dancing (dancing salsa).

In Donetsk we has two major tantskluba who really taught this Caribbean dance. Are salsoteki, and get a sea of positive emotions.

Thanks history, which tells some interesting facts, but the very essence of the salsa history can’t be transferred. It’s need to feel like all of our life.

Dance for me- it’s not just a movement in a certain rhythm. This is heartbeat, which gives an infinite energy, and positive feeling of flight. Bad mood, some turmoil - all disappear when the sound starts favorite music and the body move in lovely rhythm. In many cases, the dance - this is a couple of people (male and female), which are a whole.

In psychology books, you can read that a man and a woman - are completely different. So, among of them sometimes misunderstanding, quarrels, and all remain at their, since they can not understand each other.

In dance, everything else - this is a complete unity! The dance has own psychology, own science, can comprehend that only those who can feel the music not the words or melody, but the one who hears primarily a heartbeat, which first felt the desired rhythm. Two people who move and breathe simultaneously, enjoying each other. Forget everything, and only remained together throughout the world they one. Enjoy, appeasement, love and a sense of happiness - it is filling the world around this idyll.

I wish all of you such harmony with your lovely people. Enjoy your life and be happy!

Source:

1. http://www.cuba.com.ua

© Ch. Larionova 2009