Mambo Still Arouind

Some dancers on this Island are lucky that there are still very good teachers of Mambo here. From what I heard, there were some lucky ones at the last IBDI hoedown. Frank and Lani Sierra are no beginners. They know the ins and outs of just about every dance out there. And they were teaching some of the best and basic movements in Latin Dancing.

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Salsa came after Mambo, and some people think that Salsa invented all their moves. Wrong, Wrong, Wrong. Most of those movements were in the original Rumba that had been relegated back to the sticks in the 1800s when the new Rumba Bolero evolved. In the forties, the old rumba was jazzed up and evolved into the Mambo and it contained most of the movements from the original Rumba.

Anyone can take most of the moves that they learned in Mambo and dance it to a good Rumba tune with a good Clave beat. Just dance it Rumba style and you will have one of the most pleasant Rumbas you have ever danced. The original Rumba basic with a Rock Step. Try it you will be amazed and realize that it is the music first. Then you move to it for Da Max in enjoyment and you will be grateful that you learned those moves.

Yes, I know, we are over diluted already, but it will make it easier to delete one Sept 30th.

HBDA in teaching it the present quarter so the dancers on the entire island have access to the finer points of dancing the Mambo. And of course, since the Cha Cha Cha evolved from the Mambo, most moves are interchangeable and can be danced in either dance.

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