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• Ábaco is a dance created to follow the calls from rueda de casino.
• It is danced inside a rueda, or separate from a rueda with a designated caller.
• Ábaco figures are based on women’s rueda footwork, and easy to follow also for men.
• A partner change in rueda corresponds to a rotation in ábaco (dame una = quarter left turn, dame dos = half left turn, dame una arriba = quarter right turn).
• Ábaco uses various Cuban dance elements, from son, rumba, afrocuban dances, etc.
• Ábaco means abacus, referring to a view from above (like rueda means wheel).

Ábaco is a great alternative for cuban salsa and rueda in times when we cannot dance regular rueda, because of social distancing.

More info about ábaco

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ÁBACO VIDEOS

Rueda dot casino now offer videos of appr. 45 ábaco figures! The videos are divided into 3 levels – beginner, intermediate and advanced. All the videos show the corresponding rueda figure, to demonstrate how they correspond. Remember that ábaco may be danced inside a rueda, or separate from a rueda.

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Preview of ábaco video:

vamos arriba | tarro (ábaco figures)

Choose level below, for embedded subscriber videos and explanations of the figures.

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Beginner level

	Closed position vamos arriba tarro, dos tarros americano, americana dile que no  Open position dame / dame una / dame otra dame dos dame directo dame una arriba Echeverria Echeverria con vuelta	enchufla enchufla doble enchufla con mambo festival de pelota fly, linea, rolin, sho’boun’, los tres paseala paseala por arriba paseala caminando pelota uno, dos, tres la prima prima con la hermana familia

Click on the image for all the videos on this level.

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Intermediate level

	Closed position adentro y afuera / paseala / aguajea exhibela Open position adios camina ni pa’ti ni pa’mi . .	;

Click on the image for all the videos on this level.

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Advanced level

	Open position amistad amistad complicado enchufla para hombres ocho para mujeres patin por mi por ti saluda a lo moderno Tumba Francesa Tumba Francesa > siguelo Tumba Francesa > cambia direccion Tumba Francesa complicado .

Click on the image for all the videos on this level.

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List of available ábaco figures, from Feb 14, 2021
(Orange indicates new figure in 2021)

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