Ban Rarra Dancing Casino Rueda in Havana Cuba

Ban Rarra dances Casion Rueda in Havana Cuba.
Watch this fun and informative video on Casino Rueda from Cuba..
Casino Rueda (Rueda de Casino) is a group dance and features two or more couples who exchange partners based on someone calling the turns. Rueda means wheel in Spanish and Casino is the term in Cuba for what we call in the US, "Salsa".
There are several core steps that are danced the same all over the world, although some variations exist. On top of that, there are localized steps that many times mock popular culture icons.
Because of the improvisational nature of the person calling the steps, Rueda is a very fluid style. So, if you are going to dance this style, do like the Cubans and not worry about what others think. Go out and have fun. Listen to the music and of course, listen to the leader calling the steps.
This was recorded on the Malecon in Havana Cuba, and features the group Ban Rarra.
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OUTSTANDING! Muy bonita!!!

[@mariachaves6539]

Oh mi Cubita linda!😍por esas calles me di un paseo cuando te conocí Cuba!
Gracias grupo, bailan tan bien y bonito que yo quiero bailar asi pero no soy cubana jaja para bailar asi se requiere tener sangre cunana!! Volveré !🌴☀😘💗
Bella gente😀👏👏

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Gracias!

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Muy bonito, me encanto....les mando muchos saludos a Cuba

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Casino takes its name from the private sports clubs, "Casinos Deportivos" where the well off, predominantly white Cubans danced at parties in the 1950s, mixing their style of Cuban Son with the Jive that arrived with sailors from the US, docking in La Habana.
That is, if you like, the grammatical base of salsa. What's happened since very much mirrors where the music and dance has landed. In Colombia, virtually devoid of jazz and African influence except on its Caribbean coast, the music resembles European pop with badly played percussion and the dance has deviated beyond any recognition with its origins into a kind of pixie hop and skip affair with no core body movement.
Though differing in styles and with varied influences, the Portarrican/US versions of Salsa share a European camp/ballroom aesthetic at worst, or a lack of dynamic engagement between couples endemic in non-African dance. In Cuba, casino has moved in the opposite direction, drawing increasingly on its rich sub-Saharan African lexicon as it was taken over by the "lower orders." Particularly since the timba revolution, Casino is taken to include rumba, palo, dances for the Orishas, conga, and just about anything thrown in that works.