The importance of timing increases when you dance with a partner.
Let’s first examine WHY you dance with a partner .
- to be challenged by the lead-follow relationship, unknown
movements, call-and-response
- to learn new steps
- to experience the unity of two people
- to have someone to tell your story to (silently, with your
body)
- to listen to someone else’s story
- to make friends
So if that is why you dance with a partner, how does that relate
to how important timing is with a partner? Say I’m reading a
story to you from a book. Then you turn the page before I get to
the bottom. And I have to start at the top of the next page
without having finished the last, and I’m hurrying to get
finished before you haphazardly turn the page again. You: “just
having fun” with the pages. Me: frustrated with the give and
take. (Did I read that page too slowly? Did I add in too many
words? I didn’t get to annunciate that exclamation point at the
end!) This analogy translates to salsa. When my partner speeds up, slows down,
skips beats, pauses randomly, I spend the song playing catch-up.
I’m newly challenged by the figure-out-when-to-step phenomenon,
but no longer challenged by the enmeshing of two stories flowing
through each other. Unity - gone. Story - incomplete. Not to
mention that when leader and follower are on two different beats,
someone inevitably gets stepped on - so much for making new
friends!
Dance On 1 or On 2? I don’t care! Heck, dance on 3 or 4! But
please try to stay on that same beat throughout the whole song so
that we may be involved in telling the same story. (Exceptions:
sometimes the music changes its beat on you, and then the couple
has to make amends to adapt to the new beat. Of course, you’re
always welcome to blame the music when you lose your step!)
I would rather dance an entire song doing the basic salsa dance step
with correct
timing, than spend 3.27 minutes whirling and spinning without any
regard to the beat of the music. Timing is the FOUNDATION of
dance. Once you have that solid, THEN you can begin to turn,
spin, and dip.
Date Published: Jan 11, 2009 - 7:25 pm
The way the dance steps fit into the music is called the “step
timing” or just “timing” for short these are well performed and
shown in salsa dance classes or
salsa dance
videos.The word cadence means to marking time or keeping
time. The timing of the dancer’s steps to the music is important
to archive a fluid dance. There are numerous timings popular in
Salsa today. Salsa can be danced in various styles by accenting
different beats in the music. As in all music the rhythm and the
melody in Salsa music compete for the listener’s attention. In
addition in Salsa Music the Rhythm and the Melody are syncopated
or “off-beat” from one another. Salsa Music is commonly written
in four beats per measure time signature. In salsa dance the
Dancer uses two measures of the music to complete one cycle in
their basic dance. One measure is for the left side and the other
is for the right side of the body.
Date Published: Nov 19, 2008 - 8:16 pm
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