Saturday, February 5, 2011

Salsa and Pachanga

After doing the reading for this week, I looked up some Salsa dances and came across this video. It's interesting because if you watch the male's legs, they look they are the personality of the dance. Usually people are enthralled with the movement in the feet, but in this case, his whole body takes the character and personality of the style. Also, it's interesting how the focus is on the male, when the female normally is the focus of ballroom structured dances. What does this say about gender roles in this performance of Salsa and Pachanga and about the gender constructs in this dance as a whole? All in all, a good performance and definitely worth watching.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmOYzNxIU6g

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