Timba Sasa Style

Salsa is a style of music and dance practice by different cultures on all over the world. Salsa is way of communicating others who you are, not only by singing also by dancing. Different cultures have different way of singing and dancing salsa. Sometime, even though people are from the same culture they have different ways of transmitting salsa music and dance. Salsa is a very unique style that can be projected as romantic melody or very energetic and dynamic.
When Africans arrived to Cuba during the 1770’s they didn’t forget their traditional music. They brought their instrument and style of music and dance with them. Because Africans came from different region of Africa to Cuba they could mixed their different style to create the beginning of salsa. “African drums from far off places like Nigeria, Dahomey, and Ghana married the Spanish guitar to bring us clave. The seeds were planted in the Caribbean and now
Timba is faster tempo salsa which is influent by Afro-Cuban. The Cuban salsa always going to have this traditional rumba structure, which is “…start slow, break into a core salsa rhythm, then settle into a beautiful call and response vocal pattern”. Cuban timba is more flexible when it comes to sounds, in their style they love add others music style, like Hip hop, reggae, and rap. The way that Cuban dances is call casino. The way they dances casino is by going around the woman in a circular dynamic to show her off.
The third salsa style is the Colombian style. The music style is very fast is a good rhythm to dance. This style is very intimate for the dancers because they have to“…dance really close, the bodies of the two dancers glued together – almost completely touching each other, from head to toe”. This type of dance was created because the dance floor was so crow that there was not space to dance apart or to do big spin, so they have to do small spin and always be close to one