Free Online Dance Lesson Cha Cha Slavik Karina and Corky Bal

If something exists but it doesn't have a name--when for some reason someone feels they have to give it a name can you say it was never there before?? Of course not. If you can't understand that than this is proof that your reasoning is unreliable. And yes, I was fortunate to have been trained by a record holding national champion so actually I do happen to know what Cuban Motion is. Thanks. and Bye.

BUT you can't blame them for not having done this before. It's not that their too unsophisticated to not have structured their dances but just that the thought didn't occur to them because dancing lives through a different context which should be respected if not also appreciated by people who practice formal Latin dancing. As far as "Cuban Motion" goes...why do you even think it was named Cuban Motion??

Perhaps in the future, it would, indeed, be better if Latinos "Copyrighted" their dances by molding them into a dancesport tradition in order to guarantee they will not be disrespected in their own social dance! And, perhaps by being smacked in the face with remarks like yours ("STILL IN THE JUNGLE AGE"), this might actually happen in the future.

However, is this going to happen? No. Why? Because Latin Americans don't think like you. The only narrowmindedness around here seems to be your own to think that Latinos are at a loss (as you carefully claim now) or deficient (as you actually implied before) because their dances accomodate a social life that does not reflect dance that you practice or admire in your own life.

This is is irrelevant and doesn't make up for your previous insults. If the Latinos want to claim Latin dancing as theirs by dominating the dancesport world, yes, formal dance training should be promoted and integrated into Latino culture much like the Europeans and the Russians have.

Even the Latin people did not know how to do Cuban Motion correctly! Two of the Latin instructors I spoke to years ago did not even know such a terminology existed. That is the reason why I think the education in Latin dancing has to be promoted, or they will be like the Chinese Martial art, lost the continuity because of the narrow- mindedness of the teachers who did not want the students to do better than they could, and kept the secrets to themselves! dancewu(dot)net

One of my complaints about Karina was that she was not as talented as Slavik, She did not know how to do Cuban Motion correctly. Perhaps that was one of the reasons why they did not continue their partnership? Her eyes glazing at Slavik as if she was deeply in love with him, too bad the world did not work out the way people always wanted it to be! The trouble of the Latin dancers today is that the majority,including the instructors from Latin countries, did not know what Cuban Motion is!Do you?

"STILL IN THE JUNGLE AGE!". If you knew better you'd know that's one aspect that makes Latino culture so fascinating. Thanks.

Now considered an unsophisticated dance by I'm sure in time when it is picked up analyzed and slightly modified then it then won't be and then Latinos will have to find something else in their rich but somehow unsophisticated "gypsy" like culture to turn to. Everyone can see and appreciate what dancesport has done to partner dancing. That should not be paid back to Latinos with offensive and disrespectful comments about their culture.

They don't wanna go dance the Polka or Ballet or something they want their own thing. So that's probably why you see latinos more interested now in Cumbia, where they can dance and have fun to their own music and not be judged by people who are so willing to tell them they are not as good.

Meaning: Since everyone gets trained to dance rather than just picking it up casually and non-competitively Latinos are just intimidated at how everyone is so much "better" at it then they are (of course someone would eventually make it about being "better than someone else").

Latinos are not jealous because their dancing is "unsophisticated" by your standards: how can you say that? (That's fucked up). The only reason they may be sort of mad, and I can empathize, is that their own dance has been stolen away from them!

It's easy to learn from Slavik. Download the video and watch it frame by frame (or slow motion) and rotate your hip exactly the way he does.

There are only three great dancers in open latin. Donnie, Slavik, and Paul.

What an amazing and accurate idea. Latinos need to develop a system for their dance otherwise they will always stay in jungle age.

it's not the dress. you need all the hip movements from slavik to dance like karina.