Hen Night Hen Party

Aberdeen, Dundee, Edinburgh, Inverness

How about Salsa, the sexiest dance in the world for your Hen Party. If you are looking for something different, hot and great fun there is nothing like Salsa. You and your friends will love it. Our latin instructors and their love for Salsa will make your Hen Party unforgetable. Rueda de Casino; exciting to do, exciting to watch.

What is Rueda?

Rueda simply means "wheel". Casino refers to the kinds of turns and breaks you might normally see in ordinary partner Salsa dancing. What makes rueda unique is that the dancing is done in the "wheel", as a group, with the "followers" being passed in the "wheel", rapid exchanging of partners, and all done in time with "hot" Salsa music. Each move, or "call", has a name, and is called by a leader of the Rueda, sometimes in very quick succession. Many of the moves also have hand signals as well as names, in order to be able to dance in a loud club setting. The Rueda can be as small as two couples, or as large as a space can hold - as many as a hundred couples.

When dancing Rueda, a new group dynamic happens. What is not obvious when watching Rueda, is the new level of awareness required to have a group dance flow smoothly, and to look sharp and to keep it fun! Dancers learn to open their sphere of awareness, their peripheral vision, beyond the normal restricted "bubble" of solo or partner dancing. In this way, dancers coordinate and adjust their individual feel, timing and style so as to make the Rueda "click". When this happens, it is very exciting indeed! A unique group feeling develops, and you can feel the whole wheel ebb and flow, and "breathe" to this wonderful AfroCuban/LatinAmerican music. The result is an exciting dance; exciting to do, exciting to watch!

The form of the Rueda, passing partners in a wheel, may reflect some influence of French Court Dances (brought to Cuba by Haitians), blended with the Afro-Cuban movements. With Cuban emigration to the US, mainly into Miami, the Cuban culture, music and dance blossomed, and along with Mambo, ChaCha, and Salsa, Rueda re-emerge and became popular in the Miami clubs in the 1970S and 1980s.

from Russ Hammer and Sidney Weaverling: www.SalsaRueda.com