Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Rumba Plus Bachata

The bachata (there are different spellings of the word) is a beautiful, sexy dance. Shayne teaches it. We have it on our list, but it will be awhile. The clave and chacha are enough latin at present.

Then we had an idea. The bachata, while different from the rumba, is danced to the same rhythm. Why not steal some bachata moves and throw them in our rumba, which we know how to do? We’ve already put some clave steps in there.

So I searched on you tube to see if anyone else had done this, and of course, they had. Here is a video of a bachata that has a rumba feel. It has the lyrical smoothness of the rumba, with the bachata hip action. We like.

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