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What is the hustle and how to dance?

This popular dance was first introduced at the discos of Europe and America in the late 60s - early 70s. The very name «hustle» translated crush, squash - that fully reflect the atmosphere reigning on the dance floor.

Rotations, rotation, twist - the most popular components of dance. More advanced dancers use syncopated step, deep support, complex acrobatics and spectacular hand movements.

The popularity of dance due to the fact that learning to perform it much easier than, for example, ballroom dancing. Hustle is the so-called social dancing, not having any of the canons and standards, it does not assume once and for all set sequence of movements - it can be danced to any music with any partner.

How did the ballroom dance samba?

Samba appeared in Brazil. She danced the dance and continue today as a festival dance during the street festival and celebrations. It first appeared in the U.S. on Broadway in the play called "Street Carnival" in the late 20s.

In the XVI century, the Portuguese were brought to Brazil from Angola and Congo, many slaves who were brought gradually and their dances. Among them katerete, embolada and batuk. These dances are Europeans considered obscene, because They kept touching bare body parts.

Embolada word, which means about a cow with balls on the horns for safety, was later to mean "stupid." Batuk dance became so popular that Manuel I passed a law prohibiting it. It was a circle dance with steps like a charlzstone and clapping to the beat of drums. In the center of the circle dancing couple.

Hustle? How is it? The man is dancing?

Dance - movement. Movement - a life. And if two dance? These are two of life? No. It is one life for two. This is the dance of passion, love, sadness, loneliness, hatred, humility, disobedience ... when the two dance.

This is the dance of tenderness and aggression. It is a dance of two souls, which are connected to a couple of minutes and move together, without words to understand each other. This is not a memorized song and ligaments, it is not staging dances. These are the dances that you can dance at any time, anywhere, even in any mood. The dance - Hustle.

Now let a little more. My desire was to dance with me at birth, and any additional reasons I did not need. I just came in and danced for two months every day for 3-5 hours. As a result, during that time I began to dance as though already passed the half-year. It follows from this small but very important lesson - to become a professional in the hustle perhaps only a year or two, but you can just dance in a month.

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