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Concerts DJ's SOB's Gonzalez y Gonzalez Culture NJ Clubs Radio Stations	This page has links to information on New York area Salsa and photographs including: Salsa Clubs, Salsa Dance, Salsa Music, Photographs, Salsa Events, Features, Salsa Concerts, Radio Stations, Record Stores, Salsa Fan Pages, Salsa Dance Groups, Salsa Dance Contests, Salsa Instructors, Salsa Schools, Salsa Classes, Social Dances, Productions, Salsa Links Restaurants Salsa Congress The "New York Question"? To find out about Salsa Events check our Calendar. Features Salsa Dance Steps See the Basic Salsa dance steps in diagram and consise written language. New York Salsa on "2" Eddie Torres-Style and Razz M' Tazz, as well as the JustSalsa on "2" basic dance step is detailed. Also you will find Cuban-style and Los Angeles-style on "1" Salsa dance steps in an easy to understand way. For more info on Salsa Dance Steps Click Here Salsa Recipes ~ Healthy and Nutritious Easy to make and delicious salsa Recipes that are both healthy and nutritious. Papaya, mango, jalapeño peppers, plus cilantro and basil are some of the ingredients in these unique salsa recipes. Have fun making these salsa recipes with your friends. Your going to Love Salsa more! For more info on Salsa Recipes Click Here Latin Club and Venue Listings Latin Clubs is a new web page on justsalsa.com with venue information including, Name, Address, Telephone Number and Cross Streets of New York Clubs and Venues that hold Latin and Salsa Music, Dance, and Cultural Events. To check-it-out "Click Here" Salsa History Salsa History is a new web page with links to the Salsa History articles on justsalsa.com, Since they were scattered around the site, we decided to make a page that links them from one easy place. This page shall be updated frequently. To check-it-out "Click Here" Weekly Salsa Music & Dance Club Events Tuesday: Lava Gina (FREE) Wednesday: Plan B (FREE after Midnight), Cuba (FREE), LQ Thursday: Gonzalez y Gonzalez (FREE), Cuba (FREE) Friday: Gonzalez y Gonzalez (FREE), , Cuba (FREE) Saturday: Gonzalez y Gonzalez (FREE), Cuba (FREE) For Club address, phone number, and more information please "Click" on Club Links or scroll down the page to the directory of clubs. To look for information, photographs, or movie clips from past events check for links on the Photo Club Page. Events Calendar Listings of Latin, Salsa, and Mambo Events can be found in this section. To find out what is happening on the New York Salsa/Mambo scene check-out our calendar at www.justsalsa.com/newyork/events/calendar/. Fan Pages In this section there are fan pages for Musicians, Bands, Dancers, and Dance Groups. Check out your favorite artist or suggest one via e-mail. Movies See movies of Palladium Legends - Freddie Rios & Mike Ramos dancing. "Click" here to see a preview of dance groups including: Cultural Explosion and Tony & Melanie. Instructors NY Classes Dance Schools Free Classes Socials Dance Groups Eddie Torres Freddie Rios Jimmy Anton

Salsa Nightclubs CLUB TELEPHONE DIRECTIONS DAYS Cuba (212) 420-7878 222 Thompson Street TH, F, S Gonzalez y Gonzalez (212) 473-8787 625 Broadway TH,F,S Ideya Restaurant (212) 625-1441 349 West Broadway M China Club PHOTOS Club Babalú & Restaurant PHOTOS El Flamingo PHOTOS La Belle Epoque PHOTOS Nell's PHOTOS SOB's PHOTOS Starlite Caterers PHOTOS Village Underground PHOTOS Wild Palm PHOTOS Zinc Bar PHOTOS

Select New York Salsa Clubs Here are the select Manhattan places to enjoy yourselves in New York City and to see Salsa Siglo 21. They come early and leave early, taking advantage of Free or reduced admission prices and other specials, because they all have work to do, take care of their children, or their Lovers and friends that don't dance as much as they do. Thursday Nights: Club Cache ~ 221 West 46 Street ~ (212) 391-6881 Each week at Club Cache the DJs spin classic Salsa music, Mambo, and a touch of Cha Cha Cha. Local and international Salsa dancers attend this club, known as the Home of the Mambo, just like the Palladium was in the 1940’s through the 1960’s. Club Cache offers a great dance floor, full bar, and comfortable seating areas. .The Cuban bartender serves up the fine spirits. There are Salsa dance performances almost every week. This Salsa night is for new and old-school Salsa Dance and music lovers. This no-frills club is New York's best kept Salsa secret. Doors open from 10 PM to 2 AM. Admission $10. Discount admission passes are available upon request. Just E-mail JustSalsa.

New York Area Dance Instructors NAME TELEPHONE TEACHES Freddie Rios (718) 457-4312 P Adelaida "Addie" Rodriguez - Salsa Diva (212) 505-0458 G, P, F Legend: G = Group, P = Private Lesson, F= Free Class, S = School or Studio Search justsalsa.com using Google Search WWW Search JustSalsa

Salsa New York Style (written September 1999) New York Style Salsa is "On-2" and could be called Eddie Torres Style because he preserved the dance through Hustle and Disco and has added many moves to New York Mambo. Almost everybody does Eddie Torres "shines" (step patterns) and many Eddie Torres turn combinations as well. Also, most of the instructors teaching in New York now have passed through Eddie at sometime in the past. In this dance style the Mambo basic is danced on the first three counts of the musical bar and held for the last count (last quarter note of the musical bar when the written music in 4/4 count). This step is the same dance step that Cuban Pete taught in a seminar he gave in New York in September of 1999 at Dick Shea's. This is different from another of the "Palladium Style" "On-2" Mambo basic steps in the fact that at the Palladium dancers most often held the first count of the musical bar and danced on the three last counts of the bar. Both Eddie Torres style and Palladium style are danced with an "on 2" break. This is to say that in the Mambo basic (forward and back) the body is changing direction on the second count of the musical bar. Most experienced dancers in New York do their own personalized version which mixes the two. "On 2" dancing is often referred to dancing "on Clave". Though what this exactly means is hard to understand and almost impossible to explain. It is like trying to explain "feeling" in jazz. A lot of words can be exchanged but if you don't know you don't and that's that. Musician refer to playing on Clave. Many of the percussion parts of a Salsa song repeat every two bars. The way they fit into the Clave beat is not arbitrary. There are many terms used by the band leader or Clave player to maintain the rhythm of the music. These can be heard in live performances and are guides the musicians follow. Cuban Pete, one of the greatest dancers of the Palladium era once explained it sort of like this: Dancing "on one" is dancing "to" the music. Dancing "on 2" is dancing "in" the music. Cuban Pete once told me in an interview that the first time he felt the Clave he jumped so high he almost went through the roof of the Palladium. I understand it like this. Dancing "on one" is dancing to the melody of the music, while dancing "on 2" is dancing to the rhythm of the music. Although the melody of great Salsa songs follows the rhythm of the music, it's easier to hear the melody. The key to the rhythm in Salsa music (and dance) is the Clave. All the rhythm instruments revolve around the Clave. In Spanish "Clave" means "code" literally and is used to infer secret, vital, or key. While talking to a Cuban singer and guido player in a Paris nightclub, I asked him on which beats (or counts) of the musical bar the Cuban's danced. He said the Cuban's danced on the "down beats". I told him that in New York Salsa is danced "on 2". He said that was called that dancing on "Clave negra' because it is on the "up beats" of the music. The upbeat is often silent in the melody of a Salsa song. The first time I really got on-board of a Mambo with a truly electric dancer it reminded me of driving an Italian sports car; responsive, agile, with a sense of restrained power, and capable of tight maneuvers. Once you "get into" dancing "On-2" it captures you. After you can hear the music this way it is not long until you can feel it as well and start to dance on this syncopated rhythmic pattern called "Clave".