You have to be kidding me ....
Boy ---OOH Boy ...SALSA ....Cuban SALSA and RHUMBA come from the same place ...the most beautiful island in the world ....CUBA...
RHUMBA is great but a different generation...SALSA is the most romantic dance,, the dance with the most life ...the most DON JUAn Dance in the planet ...because the song itself is about a man and a woman 90 percent of the time.......is either a man macking to a woman like a true latin lover......or telling her she needs to go and that this is sad but life goes on and that he has the music to dance his pains aways..or something along those lines....HONESTLY it doesnt get any better than that.
SAMBA is great but it misses the Romance Salsa brings and it misses many other things aswell.
Salsa is so great because is a descendant of RHumba, CHA CHA CHA and other great dances originated by the Cuban culture .....
What really makes salsa great is the way the woman moves ......
The man moves great but when you see a cuban woman move to salsa .....BOY YOU GO CRAZY..>>YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A WOMAN REALLY IS>......and the man has an opportunity to guide the woman just like life should be...fun, romantic, sexy, and with meaning!
As far as it goes being use for a form of entertainment ...i find this almost impossible ..unless you are gay ..or a big AFC.....
Good Dancers in Salsa they love woman.....or they are gay...there is no other way around it.....SALSA IS A CELEBRATION OF A MAN AND WOMAN FLIRTING WITH EACH OTHER, AND MANY OTHER THINGS.
All woman i have known in my life would agree with the following even it has been har to get it out oif them at first.....They all feel that if he is that good in the dance floor he must be great in bed...HAHAHAH...hard to become an entertainment on the Dance floor and not be considered one for later that night if you can dance salsa like the GODS...but maybe you can the GODS ARENT CUBANS.
Below there is a link to one of the best dancers i have seen .....HE IS A NATURAL ..He is a Cuban male ....in Cuba ....
The girl is a "mulata"( mix of white "Spaniard" and black"African"). She aint that hot .....but see how that woman moves those hips ...play it one or more times if needed but for the love of God see her hips move....They will make you understand how lovely any woman can be .....whats the escence of a woman...but specially you would understand what dancing with a woman its really all about...look closely........
http://www.salsaville.com/salc/video_clips/jj0.mov
Take care and SAMBA IS GREat but it has nothing on SALSA ......SALSA IS to versatile.
Tiburon
p.s : this dancers in my opinions are better than any that compete in this country ..because they do it to wash their pains away ..they dont make any money ..infact they are starving because of the goverment....they Dance because they love the music...they are The music....and is not about the hardest move ..they understand is about having the most fun.......