Our rueda improver videos are embedded below the list. Click on a figure in the list to scroll down to the video.
More improver level rueda figures at the Ruedastandard page
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| Figures | Figure combinations |
Closed positionOpen positionguapea
side by side Rueda al medio |
Closed positionOpen positionguapea
side by side Rueda al medioRueda caminando |
Video playlist: improver.rueda.casino | print-out
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FIGURES
closed position
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americano, americana
american – male, female
The figure should ideally be danced with a bit of a cubanized hip hop style,
like a Cuban showing a parody of an american hip hop dancer.
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FIGURES
open position
guapea
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enchufla con Manolin
“enchufla” with Manolin (Cuban timba artist)
Manolin is a Cuban salsa/timba artist, who is quite famous for his characteristic movements on stage.
In Cuba everyone knows Manolin, also called el medico de la salsa (the doctor of salsa).
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enchufla con palma y pata’
“enchufla” with clap and kick
Creator: Yohan Corrioso
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enchufla y quedate con mambo
“enchufla y quedate” with mambo
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enchuflense
connect them
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festival de fly / los tres
festival of “fly” / all three (fly, linea, rolin)
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saluda
greeting
Saluda is a very simple figure, and it emphasizes an important perspective in rueda de casino: the contact not only with your partner and the caller, but also with your neighbour (la vecina / el vecino).
There is also a modern version of saluda: saluda a lo moderno.
This call is also useful in Rueda structures like Rueda llanta, to recognize you new neighbour after the different partner changes.
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sho’boun’ / German Mesa
short bounce (Baseball) / famous Cuban baseball player
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triple play
‘tripple play’ (baseball term)
Triple play is similar to doble play, but it is less known and less used. They are both related to baseball, Cuba’s national sport. Triple play is a fun figure to use in a social rueda, to add something familiar, not known to everyone, and yet doable. The figure is similar enough to doble play that you can learn it while dancing. If doble play is called first, it is rather intuitive how triple play is executed. If the call is repeated once or twice, pretty much everyone got it.
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FIGURES
open position
side by side
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saca la vecina
pick up the neighbour lady
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FIGURES
rueda al medio
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flor
flower
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FIGURE COMBINATIONS
closed position
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dos tarros
two “tarro”
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vamos abajo > tarro
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FIGURE COMBINATIONS
open position
guapea
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cero con giro
“cero” with a turn
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dame directo y dame dos
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dame directo y Echeverria
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Echeverria con vuelta
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familia y arriba
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la prima y arriba
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la prima > con la hermana > la familia
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sombrero > paseala por arriba
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vacilala con cero
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FIGURE COMBINATIONS
open position
side by side
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dile que no > ¡dicelo!
“dile que no” > say it!
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dos con dos y una arriba
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FIGURE COMBINATIONS
rueda al medio
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cubanito > cubanita
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cubanito > media derecha, completa
“cubanito” > half right, complete
In the figure cubanito, everyone is facing the centre. In his position, directions are often referred to as derecha (right) and izquierda (left), instead of arriba (upward/forward) and abajo (downward/backward).
From this position (al medio / to the center) you can change one partner by calling ‘derecha‘. You may also change only half a partner to the right, ‘media derecha‘. In ‘media derecha’, you end up in between this follower and the next one, holding both their hands. Another ‘media derecha’ will take you in front of the partner you held in your right hand.
‘completa‘ (complete or full) has the same meaning as ‘derecha’, and it is used to avoid confusion if you start calling ‘media derecha’.
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media derecha > cadena
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FIGURE COMBINATIONS
rueda caminando
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camina > ni pa´ti ni pa´mi
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More videos coming up:
RUEDA FIGURES
open position – guapea
- dame rapido
- enchufla y escondete
- engañala
open position – side by side
- dame p’atras
- dame por la mano
FIGURE COMBINATIONS
- cero y dame
- enchufla y arriba y dos p’abajo
- patin > siguelo > se fue
- patineta y dame
- patineta y patin
- patineta > siguelo > se fue
- saca la vecina y dame
- vacilala y dame
