Salsa & Rueda Links & Resources


Full List of Sites Featuring Salsa & Casino Rueda
(below are links to 3 main categories of websites. but they're all here on this one page, if you want to browse through them!)
Classes, Instructional Videos, Club Listings
Rueda Calls, Descriptions & Translations
Video Clips & Downloads of Music & Dance

SalsaPower.com
Your Global Access to Cuban-Style Salsa and Casino Rueda, the Largest on the Internet!
Jacira Castro & Julian Mejia co-founded this site, based in Broward County, FL. They have done an incredible job in creating a site that is a tremendously rich resource for all of us interested in Casino style Salsa and Rueda. If you want to find out about classes or clubs (or restaurants!) in the Miami-Ft. Lauderdale area, or almost anywhere in the world for that matter, SalsaPower is the place to visit!
AbsoluteSalsa.com
Salsa & Casino Rueda in Ft. Lauderdale!
Has translations of many Rueda moves into several languages!
Dancing Thoughts
Random Thoughts on Everything
nycecilia.com
This site is hosted by Dawn Cecilia, my friend and co-instructor! She has all kinds of info there, including some translations of the lyrics for some Cubans songs (click on Cuba Forum, then on The Lyrics Project -- feel free to add to the catalog of translated songs!), links to other sites, news, chats etc etc. Not really random! But definitely eclectic!
SalsaRacing.com
Salsa & Casino Rueda Classes in Miami!
Henry Herrera, Director
  • classes, instructional videos & DVDs, links
SalsaLovers.com
More Salsa & Casino Rueda Classes in Miami!
Rene Gueits, Director
  • classes, videos, links
SalsaPulse.com
"...Online Magazine devoted to promoting the growth...of Miami-style Salsa dancing ("Casino"),... providing news, articles, interviews, events, dance tips and commentary on what's happening in South Florida and around the world."
SalsaCasino.com
Salsa & Rueda in Atlanta!
Includes free video clips of many Rueda moves!!
Salsa and Rueda in Baltimore! Music, dance information, Rueda descriptions, and more! Hosted by Barb Bernstein
TheLatinWorld is site in the Netherlands that gives descriptions of many Cuban Rueda moves! Some dicey English syntax and translation, but you can get an idea of how to do a lot of moves from their painstaking descriptions.
Here's a page on the Cal State San Marcos Website that breaks down many Casino Rueda moves! Courtesy of Benjamin Rapaport and Tomas Montero (one of Russ' original instructors hailing from Miami!)
California State university, San Marcos
Web page of Vancouver's Rueda de Casino Competition! An annual event inspired by the original competition program, "Bailar Casino" televised in Cuba.

Salsa & Rueda Sites In California

SalsaSF.com & SalsaCrazy.com
Two Excellent Sites on the Salsa Scene in the San Francisco Bay Area
  • classes
  • music
  • local events
  • clubs

"Learn to Salsa Dance Online with these amazing step-by-step Learn to Dance videos. "

"Classes on Salsa, Cha Cha, Merengue, Bachata and Rueda"

Salsa & Rueda
in Santa Cruz, CA
SalsaWeb.com
An International Salsa Site Based in Los Angeles, CA
[NOTE: this site does not open easily with Netscape!
Use Internet Explorer!]

Salsa & Rueda Sites Outside The USA
SalsaSite.com
Salsa in Norway!
A "super information site" for Salsa in Southern California containing:
Message Board, National Event List, Dance Instructors, DJ's, Articles, AIM Icons, Classes, Club List .......and more, hosted by Stephanie Lynn
Find out about Casino Salsa & Rueda in beautiful Vancouver, Canada. Hosted by Ramses & Debby Padilla, this site will let you know about events in Vancouver, especially their annual Casino Rueda Competition and Mega-Rueda class. In 2005, Russ Hamer was one of the judges for the competetion, and he taught in the Mega-Rueda class along with several other instructors! The whole weekend event was a blast!
This French site has a large range of video clips of performances of many of the greatest Cuban bands, both modern and more traditional. There are also clips of dancing (folkloric, popular partner dancing & Rueda). You have to register to view the clips, and you can even download some of them. Others seem only to be viewable online (WM or Real).
Here's another site (http://muchoswing.com/) that has some cool videoclips (many downloadable) of Cuban music and dance. Some of the items on the FiestaCubana site actually will link you over to this site when you click on them. When you enter the site, just click on Music & Dance to find the links to the music and dance clips/downloads.
This site has information about Salsa instructors and classes in Southern CA (nr. LA).
Salsa in Ireland! Classes! Events! Music!