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Latin Dance - Ballroom Dance - Salsa Dancing in Dallas, Fort Worth

Salsa is a dance form with origins from the Cuban Son (circa 1920s) and Afro-Cuban dance (specifically Afro-Cuban rumba).[citation needed]. It is generally associated with the salsa music style, although it may be danced under other types of tropical music.

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Salsa is normally a partner dance, although there are forms such as a line dance form "Salsa suelta", where the dancers dance individually and a round dance form "Rueda de Casino" where multiple couples exchange partners

in a circle. Salsa can be improvised or performed with a set routine.

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Salsa is a popular social dance throughout South America as well as in North America, Europe, Australia, and some countries in Asia and the Middle East. 

Bachata Dancing in Dallas, Fort Worth

The original dance style from the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean is a basic dance sequence in a full 8 count moving within a square. Dancers in the Western World later began developing a more simple pattern and added dance elements from other dances as well, the basic is also in a full 8 count, but with a side-to-side motion. 

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