Which Latin Dance Should I Dance In A Talent Show?

Question

Ok. So theres this talent in a camp i work at coming up and i want to perform a latin dance for them. I am dominicn & cuban, so i know alot. I just dont know which dance to do. Its either merengue, bachata, or salsa. Which do you think i should do?

Answer 1

You could always do a 'splice' - a little showcase of all three.  Rather than doing a 4min Salsa (it takes a lot of time to choreograph long routines) - do a 1 minute snippet of each dance.  That way you can fit all the groovy stuff in and not have to use 'filler' steps to make up the time.  And since you have Cuban in you why not do danzon too (the national dance of Cuba).

Answer 2

pick that suits your Body style and movement.

If you have a Video camera try to record yourself and show it to some of your friends and your friend's friends. Take their opinion.

Anyway you can also Check out other Dance Talent contests and competitions

http://www.bigfatprize.com/prize/index.p...

Answer 3

Well, I'm slightly partial to salsa. You can incorporate a lot more styling and steps in salsa than in merengue and bachata. You should search on youtube for the top female salsa dancers and get ideas from there.

Here are some of the names: Amanda Estilo, Duplessey Walker, April Genovese, Addie Rodriguez, Melissa Pabon, Ruby Espinosa, Griselle Ponce, Yesenia Peralta

Also, here are some of the top mambo companies in the world, you can get ideas from them too: Yamulee, Santo Rico, Karisma, Enixe

I dance for Siempre en el Ritmo, you can youtube those performances as well, if you want.

Here are some other sites that have great salsa videos: imambo.tv, nuevotec.com, mambonyc.com

Good luck!!