Preparing for No Siesta Fiesta
Hi alle sammen!
Thank you to those who signed up to be a part of the Samba parade.
The festival program comes out this Wednesday at www.nosiestafiesta.no . They also have a printed newspaper that you will find in different cafes around town.
Remember next week, Monday 1st March, we have a very special class. At 19:30 we have some drum percussionists coming to play for us. The guys are going to learn to play the rhythms and the girls will practise the Brazilian Samba. We will also practise the couple Samba too.
From 20:30 we will be practising the Salsa steps we know – basic (On2, On1 and Classic) right turn, left turn and 2nd position breaks/Cuban basic. I’ll also throw in some quick and easy Tango! (especially for those who learnt Tango last year) as there will be a Tango band at the fest too.
The week after, Monday 8th March, we will be having classes at Salsademika for the festival – we are supporting with Bossa Nova and Bolero. On Wednesday 10th we will be having our club excursion to Compagniet. The dancing is from 21:00-00:00. I will be there after 21:30pm as I have a dance class beforehand.
To recap: On the Saturday 14th March, we will be casually dancing at the parade assembly at the Kulturhuset at 12:30 before the procession. This is to show the general public how to dance Samba. We can dance as singles or couples. During the parade the Samba girls will walk/dance in costume behind the Queen of the Drums (two vid examples are below so you can practise what we did in class) and the boys will play percussion instruments to help with the rhythm. Then at the end of the procession in Nerstranda as the percussionists do a reprise to by time for all the parade to get into the shopping centre, we will be dancing a casual Samba again – solo and in couples. I will be there all the time and will help you start the dancing etc but I am also managing the show so will be occupied with many things. I can start you off but then I need to focus on running the show.
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Samba/Maxixe
Tonight we learnt a lot in the Samba. Here is an example of the steps we learnt – they start in a different order and they also do a continuous underarm turn (we will try that next lesson 
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Samba de Gafieira
This dance is a mix of Samba and Tango – it developed in the South of Brazil near the border of Argentine of course . You will see similar steps to ours in this clip if you watch closely.
Here is a Maxixe/samba (the clip says it’s from 1914 – but you can tell it is almost like a folk dance style so it could be right.)
Here is a SYTYCD Maxixe in the old style – you can see that our Samba is certainly modernised from this (the dance doesn’t start till 2 mintutes in):
Here is another one that is a little cheesy…lol:
Here is a beginners Maxixe and you will notice the back and forth hand movement that I showed you in class…lol:
The Brazilian Samba
There are many different types of ways to dance the Brazilian Samba, here are a couple.
This first one we practised in class – it is a Rio style Samba – which has a little more style:
Here’s a girl who teaches the generic Samba but I think it is the easiest one to learn it! It is not as feminine though. It is basically the same as the one we did tonight but the rhythm is even instead of emphasising the 1 beat. But you will notice when she goes fast that she adds in the swivel and knee raise that we were practising in class. This comes from the momentum of you changing legs and turning a little side to side.
So practise this way and then we will add the emphasis in to help our hips.
Salsa timing and counts
Here is a vid that explains what I’ve been talking about in class – it is a little wordy and also has a jump in the middle but the information is good:
So, as we discovered tonight – if you do the harder one first the easy one is just too easy!
Cheers!
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