Why Is Casino Dance Not Understood?
🇬🇧 Why Is Casino Dance Not Understood? Casino dance is probably one of the most widely practiced social dances in the world within the universe of Cuban popular dance music and the social dances historically associated with it . However, there is a deep problem that is rarely stated clearly: Casino is danced… but not understood. The origin of the problem Casino is a dance of empirical transmission. This means that its learning process has historically not been the result of a structured methodological system, but rather of imitation, repetition, and spontaneous adaptation among dancers. For decades, knowledge has been transmitted in a practical way: someone teaches a figure, someone else repeats it, it is added to the repertoire, and so on. This mechanism has allowed its expansion. But it has also produced an inevitable consequence: the absence of a clear system of understanding. Dancing is not the same as knowing A dancer may execute dozens, even hundreds, of figures, ...