Rueda de Casino
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Rueda de Casino (Casino Rueda, Salsa Rueda) is a particlular type of round dancing of Salsa. It was developed in Havana, Cuba in the 1960s by the famous group Guaracheros de Regla and one of its main choreographers and creators was Jorge Alfaro from San Miguel del Padron, a soloist of a comparsa.
Pairs of dancers form a circle, with dance moves called out by one person, a caller. Many moves have hand signs to complement the calls; these are useful in noisy venues, where spoken calls might not be easily heard. Many of the moves involve the swapping of partners.
The names of the moves are mostly in Spanish, some in English (or Spanglish; e.g., "un fly"). Some names are known in slightly different versions, easily recognisable by Spanish-speaking dancers, but may be confusing to the rest.
While rueda is especially popular in Cuba and a number of places in the U.S., it can also be found in many other countries. In Europe, rueda has active groups in at least Germany, Poland, and Russia. At least in Germany, some of the calls are in German.
Although the names of the calls are presently the same across the board, the different towns in havana used its own calls. This was due to the fact that when the pioneers of Rueda de Casino started, they wanted to keep others from forming the Ruedas.
Casino Rueda scenes may be seen in the movie Dance with Me and in the music video clip No me dejes de querer by Gloria Estefan.
List of moves
Translations are in ( ), variants are in [ ].
- Abajo (down)
- Abrázala
- Adiós (bye)
- Adiós con la hermana
- Adiós con la prima
- Adiós con vuelta [con la vuelta]
- Adiós largo
- Festival de adiós
- Al medio [p'al medio] (to centre)
- A lo cortico
- Arriba al tiempo España
- Aspirina
- Balsero
- Bikini
- Beso [El beso] (kiss)
- Besito (little kiss)
- Bola
- Bola una
- Bola dos
- Bola tres
- Botella [La botella] ... -> con la tapa (con tapa)... -> trunca
- Bulla [Una bulla]
- Cadeneta (chain)
- Candado (lock)
- Cero [El cero] (zero)
- Cien (one hundred)
- Coca Cola
- Consorte
- Croqueta [or Taxi]
- Cucaracha (cockroach)
- Dame (Gimme)
- Dame otra (give me another)
- Dame una [also dos, tres...] (give me one, or two, three..)
- Dame arriba [also Dame dos arriba, tres arriba...]
- ...con una (clap while you do the Dame) (...with one (clap))
- e.g., Dame dos con una
- Dame con los manos [pasa con los manos, pasala con los manos]
- Danilo
- Danilo y dame
- Dedo (finger)
- Dedo saboreado
- Dedo, guarapo y bota
- Dile que no (tell her "no")
- Doble play
- Doble cero (double zero)
- Dos (two)
- Drácula
- Echevarria
- Enchufla (plug in)
- Enchufla pero no dile que no (enchufla without "dile que no")
- Enchufla doble (double)
- Enchufla p'al medio (to center)
- Enchufla p'al medio con dos (... with two (claps))
- Enchufla y casate (... and get married)
- ...la cunada,... la hermana,... su madre,... la tuya
- Enchufla por detrás
- Uno (one)
- Exhibe, Exhibela (show her off)
- Evelyn
- Fly [Un fly]
- Frankenstein
- Gancho (hook)
- Guapea [guaperia]
- Hombres derecho (men to the right)
- Huracan (hurricane)
- Juana la cubana
- Kentucky
- Kentucky complicado
- La rosa (rose)
- Mantecado
- Montaña
- Mujeres... derecho (women to the right)
- Mujeres... izquierdo (women to the left)
- Noventa
- Nueve (nine)
- Ochenta y cuatro
- Ocho (eight)
- Panqué
- Pasa con los manos (pasala con los manos, dame con los manos) (pass with hands)
- P'al medio (Al medio) (to centre)
- Pa'Arriba (forward)
- Pa'Tras (backward)
- Pelota... (ball)
- Pelota (con) dos (ball with two (claps))
- Pelota (con) quatro (..with 4... )
- Peluquería
- Prima
- Prima doble
- Prima con hermana
- Principe bueno
- Principe malo
- Policía
- Policia de Miami
- Ponle sabor (give it flavor)
- Puente (bridge)
- Rico pa el
- Rubenada
- Saboreado
- Sacar agua del pozo
- Seis (six)
- Serrucho (saw)
- Setenta (70)
- Setenta complicado (complicated 70)
- Setenta Miami
- Sencillo
- Siete (7)
- Siete loco
- Siete moderno
- Sin manos (without hands)
- Sombrero
- Sombrero doble
- Sombrero p'abajo [Sombrero por de bajo]
- Suena (sound)
- Tarro [Un tarro] (horn)
- Hombres un tarro
- Mujeres un tarro
- ... de mentira
- Dos tarros
- Tarrito
- Telefoto
- Talía
- Three-way stop
- Trenecito
- Vacilala (check her out)
- Yogurt
- Yogurt con tapa
- Yogurt con todo el mundo
- Yogurt con la vecina
- Yogurt para siempre
External links
- large selection of videoclips of Rueda de Casino commands (http://salsahh.de/Videoclips.16.0.html)
- large selection of videoclips of Rueda de Casino commands (if the above link does not work) (http://salsahh.de/)
- Rueda commands with description (http://www.salsarueda.com/rueda/rueda_calls.html#top)
- wikibook for rueda commands (http://wikibooks.org/wiki/Dancing:Salsa:Rueda_de_Casino)
- Guide and Syllabus (http://www.salsaatmaryland.com#Rueda)de:Rueda de casino