I saw this comment on a video of ours in YouTube and I liked it very much. It was a great analogy of comparing different salsa styles by a user named tommrod:
“Salsa is a language, and as a language, it can be spoken in many accents, slang terms, and varying tone as one may like.”
For some reason, it just never occurred to me that this was a perfect analogy for “understanding” different salsa styles. A lot of dancers tend to be on the “Cali Colombia Salsa is the best”, or “LA on1 is true salsa”…etc. In reality, just as the Spanish language, even though there are proper ways to speak Spanish (grammar, spelling, syntax..etc) - we do come to accept the diversity of Spanish dialects. On1, On2, Casino, Pachanga, Cali…. They are all just different dialetcs of salsa dancing, each with their own variations on accents as well. The diversity is innumerable.
gabriel 2:44 am on December 9, 2008 |
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you are right.
that is a great analogy, although even the right usage of a “correct” grammar is nothing but clear. people from latin america use a totally different grammar than those from spain. so correct forms of grammer also have to adapt the spoken styles.
thats what the academia real does every year, they are analyzing the spoken word.
as it is in the dancing sphere. there is no correct way of dancing salsa. there is a lot of technique, but as salsa dancing is like every dance a form of communication to and with music, everybody has it’s own way of talking.
tommrod 9:46 pm on December 23, 2008 |
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wow i didn’t know i was so cool !!!
haaa
no seriously i didn’t think anybody else hadn’t come up with the same thing. it just seems logic.
though mr apersaud had to change some of the words i used.
it’s cool, i have to say mr apersaud inspired me to take classes and learn salsa technique because i have danced salsa but to a “family reunion” level.
not only i had thought of salsa being a language but also compared to the whole human understanding of relationships. which might be a little too heavy and lack some interest.