La salsa cubana (2011) - doc
Inside Havana's casino scene: this film follows Cuban dancers in their own environment — social gatherings, dance schools, the streets — building toward a rueda de casino competition. The closest thing to being in Havana without being there.
What It Covers
The film documents casino ( Cuban salsa) as a living social practice in Havana. It follows dancers of different ages and backgrounds, showing how casino is taught, how it's danced socially, and how it functions as community. The rueda de casino competition at the end shows what the dance looks like at a high collective level — dozens of couples moving in synchrony through called figures.
Why Dancers Should Watch It
Most Cuban dance videos show performance — staged, rehearsed, for the camera. This film shows the social reality: how people actually dance casino in Cuba, what the energy in a real rueda feels like, and what the dance means to the people who grew up with it. That context changes how you approach your own dancing — you stop trying to look like a performance and start trying to feel like a Cuban social dancer.
Complete documentary
Rumba is de meest Afrikaans-gewortelde van alle Cubaanse muziek- en dansvormen — geboren op de straten, binnenplaatsen en kades van Havana en matanzas"> Matanzas aan het einde van de 19e eeuw, zonder Europese instrumenten, geen salonomgeving en geen schijn van Europese fatsoenlijkheid.
Lees meer >Casino is de Cubaanse paardans geboren in de sociale clubs (casinos deportivos) van Havana in de jaren 1950. Het is wat Cubanen hun eigen sociale dans noemen — onderscheidend van, en ouder dan, wat de rest van de wereld "salsa" noemt.
Lees meer >Casino is de Cubaanse paardans geboren in de sociale clubs (casinos deportivos) van Havana in de jaren 1950. Het is wat Cubanen hun eigen sociale dans noemen — onderscheidend van, en ouder dan, wat de rest van de wereld "salsa" noemt.
Lees meer >Cuba is the largest island in the Caribbean and the birthplace of some of the world's most influential music and dance traditions. African, Spanish, and French cultural streams collided here over centuries of colonial history, producing an extraordinary creative culture that exported itself across the globe.
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