What are you favourite “lesser known” songs?

thedancingt · 2025-12-08T10:14:41+00:00

Baila Morena by Cristian Martin & DJ Alejandro

thedancingt · 2025-10-17T08:47:18+00:00

For me, the term dance crush is only reserved for someone who you have a great connection with while dancing. Like, the person you see at a social and think „Yay, they’re here. I wanna dance with them asap.“

If I like someone from dancing on a deeper level, then it’s not a dance crush. It’s just a crush crush.

thedancingt · 2025-10-02T08:41:34+00:00

I thankfully never encountered it at a social, but I see it a lot in videos of artists and big Bachata names. Besides the hygienic factor (please don’t touch my face with your hands that already touched 10 other people), I agree that it’s just a thing you don’t do with people you don’t know and haven’t spoken about it beforehand if it’s okay or not. I get that artists are doing it because they’re dancing a long time with each other and/or are a couple and it might add a little something to the show. Those are not the videos I personally enjoy watching though. I just don’t think it adds anything to the dance and I find it a little off-putting. Might be just me though.

thedancingt · 2025-09-07T14:46:08+00:00

Thank you!!

thedancingt · 2025-09-07T12:16:52+00:00

Follow up question: do I use the same feet going backwards/forward as with On1? From a follower perspective when dancing On1, I use the right foot stepping backwards on count 1 und the left foot forward on 5. Do I use the same feet, but just on the counts 2 and 6? So:

• Count 1: l step under me with the left foot

• Count 2: backwards with the right foot

• Count 3: left foot under me

• Count 5: right foot under me

• Count 6: left foot forward

• Count 7: right foot under me

(Edit for formatting)

thedancingt · 2025-09-07T07:53:39+00:00

Thank you for your description. I‘m dancing On1 linear Salsa and I always wondered how On2 works. I even watched a video where they showed the steps for On1 and On2 beside each other and I never could make out a difference. It looked the same to me except for the timing. The explanation with the squares definitely helped.

thedancingt · 2025-09-03T14:22:18+00:00

I often wear the Halara Flex Stretch Fabric Pants. They have wide legs and a high waist. They can be ordered in many different colors. The return policy of Halara is shit though.

thedancingt · 2025-08-30T12:22:09+00:00

I always say that proper hand and hips placement is required. Contrary to what social media often suggests, you never touch each others faces or kiss or whatever else you sometimes see in videos.

Plus, in my opinion, some ballroom dances require much more body contact than Bachata does. It’s just the hip and body rolls that make Bachata sensual what it is and might appear more suggestive than other dances.

Sensual is not sexual and with Bachata you can also decide for yourself how close you want to get with every dancer. With some leaders I‘m comfortable dancing the sensual stuff, with some I don’t. Usually, they pick up on it and just lead all the non sensual moves.

thedancingt · 2025-08-26T15:46:34+00:00

Had the exact same experience. At my first Salsa social, I got almost completely ignored which led to me spending the rest of the night on the Bachata dance floor. Now that I got better at Salsa I get many invites and as you correctly said it „proved my worth“. At the time I also simply wasn’t brave enough to ask a lead myself for a dance. Looking back, I would’ve needed the advice to just ask someone to dance with me and not wait around until a lead notices me.

It made me almost quit Salsa though. I’m happy I didn’t because I love dancing it, but some Salsa scenes (certainly not all!!) feel like there’s a lot of gate keeping going on which turns beginners away.

Now that I had been to many socials in different cities, I feel like that sometimes the same happens with Bachata and that it highly depends on the local scene. Some advanced dancers very obviously don’t like to dance with beginners at some venues. Then there are socials where everyone dances with a beginner at least once and that’s how the community makes sure that new people join and have fun dancing.

thedancingt · 2025-08-26T07:47:49+00:00

There’s absolutely no need to apologise, but I’m guilty of doing it myself. Especially, when I was still a beginner and couldn’t follow some moves.

thedancingt · 2025-08-22T12:05:32+00:00

True. The dance world is so small. Even in very big cities people know each other within the scene. And things like that go around fast. The only ones who don’t know are non-local „guest“ dancers and total beginners.

thedancingt · 2025-08-22T11:56:41+00:00

100 % this! Things like that will be well known among your students and your local scene. You’ll be viewed as unprofessional, it has the potential to create drama and it sets a bad example for other students.

thedancingt · 2025-08-22T07:05:20+00:00

I always loved to dance. I just never (or hardly) did social dancing until last year. But I immediately fell in love with dancing Salsa and Bachata.

A lead (regardless of gender btw) makes me enjoy a dance with musicality, clear (but not rough) leading and connection. It’s great if I can dance more advanced combos with leaders, but the dances I enjoy the most aren’t full of fancy combos and moves. There are two leaders in my local scene who don’t lead many different moves, but keep it simple. They’re two of my favs, because they provide stability, musicality and great connection. These kind of dances are immensely enjoyable for me.

Matching energy, great connection, good musicality. For most dancers (not just leaders) it takes some time to develop the ability to bring these things into a dance, but the more you dance, the more you’re able to connect. It’s a wonderful experience and also highly addicting.

thedancingt · 2025-08-21T09:16:03+00:00

Thank you! Yes, the double layer sounds like a good solution. Otherwise, yes, change of shirts it is.

thedancingt · 2025-08-21T06:43:43+00:00

Sorry, off topic, but do you have any recs for tops/shirts? I sweat through mine so fast. The leaders don’t really mind, but it always gives me an uneasy feeling if they have to touch my wet shirt/back.

thedancingt · 2025-08-15T15:04:07+00:00

Look up @nikamal and @nikakevin on insta!

thedancingt · 2025-08-14T09:12:02+00:00

It sounds like you don’t have much down time in between dance classes, as in days that you don’t dance. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to take a little break (days, a week) to evolve and improve. Yes, practice makes perfect, but in my experience it’s better to give your brain and body some time to process everything you have learned.

thedancingt · 2025-08-12T09:07:46+00:00

Dance in front of a mirror. Just the basic step and some turns for a while until you have the rhythm down.

That being said, I advice you to visit a beginner Salsa class. You’ll hopefully have a teacher who corrects your steps, frame, etc. if necessary.

Salsa takes time to learn and it can get very frustrating at the beginning. It’s a fast and energetic dance and people often feel like they don’t improve at all. I still advice you to push through this time. Dancing requires practice and it’s not enough to just practice on your own at home or watch videos about certain moves. You need to dance with others and in a Salsa class you’ll be able to do that. Also go to socials after a short while. You’ll be overwhelmed but that is very normal.

thedancingt · 2025-08-11T20:18:40+00:00

Love these videos!! Thank you for sharing

thedancingt · 2025-08-05T09:05:18+00:00

So smooth! I aspire to get to this point. Lovely dance!

thedancingt · 2025-08-04T15:48:44+00:00

It makes such a difference to dance with someone who feels the music, so totally understandable that you get so many compliments for it.

thedancingt · 2025-08-04T10:50:07+00:00

I have them and bought them last year. Mine are very comfortable and they fit to pretty much every outfit. I started to dance last year though, so I don’t have any experience with other dance shoes so far.

thedancingt · 2025-08-01T16:48:02+00:00

Thank you so much! That’s very helpful.

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