About Salsa

Salsa is a style of music, a style of dance and of course yummy sauce with nacho chips!

Musically, Salsa's rhythmical roots come from Africa via Cuba.  These rhythms fused with American jazz to form an unmistakable sound that in it's heyday represented the Puerto Rican ghetto experience in New York.  You could say Salsa was to Puerto Rican New Yorkers what hip hop is to African Americans.  But the sound didn't stop there - it made it's way back to Cuba and Puerto Rico, and also has a significant and accomplished base of musicians in various parts of Central and South America.

As a dance, Salsa's sexy style, combined with a strong cultural backing and a natural competition among dancers to create the coolest moves, have made it the most popular partner dance in the world.  Danced everywhere from New York to Tokyo, Los Angeles to Tel Aviv, San Juan to Seoul, this dance has broken through cultural barriers and created pockets of "salsaholics" the world over.

Over the next few months, we'll start filling this section with articles about salsa music and dancing, as well as helpful and insightful articles about the process of learning to dance.  So look out for it!