User talk:FEDDK

Hey FEDDK, just reverted back your change to the 'new traditional' bachata dance section. Side step didn't originate in EU/USA. Bachata was already being danced that way before it became popular outside of the Latino Community. I saw it danced that way in Dominican clubs in the late '90s. Maybe it's true it became popular because it is easier, but europeans and americans had nothing to do with it.

Hi Bdemenil, I do not quite agree, I have a lot of videos from DR going back to 1996 and they all dance in a square but some of the dancers only make a very small step forward and back on the 3.th beat so it can be difficult to see if you are not watching carefully (sometimes they go forward or back on 4th beat dancing Contra Tiempo like Son which the Dominicans also dance) but they are not dancing straight sideways like in EU/USA ;-) The basic steps in a square (today called Box-steps) is from the Bolero which is also danced in a square but slightly different than Bachata (the Bolero steps goes all the way back to the Wals). The idea of the straight sideways steps are from X-body Salsa dancers which prefer to dance in straight lines - They were the first to introduce the Bachata to EU and USA and to sell bachata courses there teaching the more easy straight sideways steps ;-) If you talk to experienced Dominican dancers they all say that Bachata original is danced with the Box-steps all the way back to the beginning of the sixties. The phrase: "At some point, perhaps in the late 1980s or early 1990s, dancers began using a simpler side to side pattern in addition to the box step. The basic steps of this pattern move side to side, changing direction after every tap. Common characteristics of this style are the close connection between between partners, soft hip movements, and tap with a small "pop" of the hip on the 4th step (1, 2, 3, Tap/Hip)." is now to simplistic again because you have changed what i had wrote instead ;-) Greetings, FEDDK

24.11.2012 Please don't keep changing the fact that the Side to Side Steps is from US/EU and not The Dominican Republic. For those who don't know this Dance in details it can sometimes look that the Dominicans are dancing from Side to Side, however, most of these dancers also do a very small step back or forward on the third beat. As I've written previously the Bachata steps is originally from the former Caribbean Bolero/Cuban Danzon! You also have to concider the fact that not all dominicans have learned to dance Bachata as it originally is danced by experienced dominican dancers and they therefore also do the same mistake as the Americans and Europeans dancers, dancing ONLY from Side to Side but it's not technically so you dance Bachata originally. The Wikipedia Site "Bachata Dance" is supposed to define the origin ;-) Greetings, FEDDK