Thursday, March 24, 2005
Merengue
When I was on vacation I did a fair amount of dancing. Now I like to salsa, and I was looking forward to getting a bit in while I was in the Dominican, but it seemed like all anyone wanted to do was merengue. Each disco I went to - it was the same thing. Tons of people doing the merengue, no sign of salsa dancing. Now I'd never merengued before and it's not like anyone told me how to do the actual steps. It seemed pretty close to salsa, but it was a lot faster and looked more like a 4-step dance. I winged it and managed to get along fine on the dance floors while I was on vacation. So the other morning I decided to look online to see if I could find any explanation of how these two dances differ. Sure enough I came across the Salsa & Merengue Society website which gives the history of the merengue and explains, among other things, the importance of the Dominican Republic as a main locus for its development. Go figure. :-)
Posted by Dre at 8:05 AM
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