Rueda de Casino

After almost 6 months of salsa lessons, I was able to join the Rueda class at Havana Estudio. Yippee!! At the salsa clubs, I've seen small groups of Intermediate students dancing it and it looked really fun and interesting!

Basically, Rueda de Casino is Cuban style salsa which is danced in a circle. All couples form a circle and there's a 'caller' who will be calling out a series of moves which everyone will follow. It involves a lot of partner swapping and it's really great coz everyone has to work together to ensure that the dance goes smoothly! :P

The following are some of the moves we learnt yesterday:

• Guapea [Basic Step]
  
• Dame [Gimme]
  
• Dile Que No! [Tell her no!]
  
• Abajo [(Walk) Down]
  
• Pa'el Medio [Walk to the middle]
  
• Enchufla Que No!
• Enchufla y Abajo
  

We will be practicing our Rueda at the Little Havana this Saturday night. Interested to come check it out? ;P