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Unit: Popular Dance
Theme: Casino

Introduction
 
 The Casino, a popular and traditional Cuban social ballroom dance that emerged in the late 1950s, has transcended its borders as part of a process of cultural flow associated and driven by globalization and the world phenomenon of salsa. .
 
 
 
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Learning Objectives 

  • Understand casino within the context of salsa music/dance
  • Explain the differences between casino and salsa
  • Gain an awareness of how salsa derived from guaracha
  • Experience the steps of salsa, casino style

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Main Lesson 
 
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Alan Borges (1947) and Alicia Sardiñas (La Habana, 1951) are founders of the casino dance and the casino wheel. (2) In Cuba salsa is known as casino.  This expressive genre is a lively, playful and humorous, and unlike other ballroom dances, it is not oriented towards competition. It is known as a couples dance that fuses a series of turns and figures from the Cuban mambo.


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How to Dance Casino
 
 
 
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Casino in DC
 
 
 
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Casino in Miami
 
 
 
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Competition - Rueda de Casino, cuba

 
 
 
 
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Origen de la rueda de Casino
 


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A Note to Remember

Dances such as the contradanzas and Spanish dances, the Quinces parties, the popular and ballroom dances in the 50s and the games at the dances, were probable antecedents that influenced the origin of the casino and its wheel. The possible movements or corridors that emerged could delimit the structure and the corridors of a dance as Cuban as the casino, which for others is also salsa.(2)


 

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Case Studies

Summary Video 

 

(6:30, 9:25, 22:53)
 
 

3 en 1: SALSA TIMBA SON montuno [sin censura] 

 
https://youtu.be/n8Lla2eHTVM?si=XjfvwNhz0F8-Zq_-

 

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Activity

Students learn the basic mozambique steps


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Journaling


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Glossary


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 Sources

 1. El Casino y el fenómeno mundial de la salsa (2022). Cubaescena

2. Historia del baile y la rueda de casino-salsa. https://mallcubano.com/tienda/mundo/la-historia-del-baile-del-casino-salsa.html

3. Origen de la rueda de casino. http://www.proyectosalonhogar.com/enciclopedia_ilustrada/Origen_Rueda.htm

 

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Students' Work

 

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