Korea Carruseles

Casino Rueda Night at Waegook Cook in Gumi

Once again it's Free Casino Rueda Lesson night at Waegook Cook Pub in Gumi. Class starts at 9:30 pm. Instructor is Art Williams.

Rueda News across the ocean

I put up another video last night about the Casino Rueda class I've just recently started at Waegook Cook in Gumi, S.Korea (see their very active Facebook page here) and, lo and behold, it's #4 on Google for 'casino rueda'.  Funny how that Google guy figures things out.  How'd he know the class is tonight?

Anyway, I noticed some news about other casino rueda venues back in The Americas so I thought I'd share those items of information too:

Announcing new Free Casino Rueda class in Gumi

Read my post over on WanderingSalsero about the the casino rueda class I'm starting over at Waegook Cook in Gumi. Click here.

Publish Date: 05/13/2010 10:45

http://wanderingsalsero.typepad.com/korea_carruseles/2010/05/announcing-new-free-casino-rueda-class-in-

(Next.....here's some news about a big Casino Rueda event in Bordeaux.  Casino Rueda is big in Europe, you know.  I'll bet this would be fun.  And....I wouldn't be surprised if there's some Kizomba in the background either.  Europeans seem to be a bit more 'liberal' than US types.)

Festival International de Rueda de Casino – April 23 to 25, 2010 ...

Marc Pinaud, our Godfather, the whole organisation team and myself are very pleased to invite you to celebrate the 5th edition of our Bordeaux International Casino Rueda Fesival – Cuban Salsa. 2010 will be a year full of projects and ...

Publish Date: 04/21/2010 0:16

http://www.salsacongress.com/2010/04/20/festival-international-de-rueda-de-casino-april-23-25-2010-bordeaux-france/

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(Here's a post I wrote a few months ago about the Rueda group I participate in in Daegu, just up the road from where I live.  We've been rather inactive lately due to the absence of some key figures in the group.)

Korea Carruseles: Casino Rueda in Daegu

Casino Reuda is alive and reasonably well in central S.Korea. In the city of Daegu to be more exact. Yes, I've been having lots of fun attending the Saturday night Casino Rueda Class at Babalu Salsa Club in the downtown...

Publish Date: 01/25/2010 3:33

http://wanderingsalsero.typepad.com/korea_carruseles/2010/01/cas

Casino rueda salsa

Casino rueda salsa Started by geralt007 in Salsa Music and Dance Replies: 1 Last poster: Adam from Embra.

Publish Date: 04/20/2010 3:29

http://www.salsacity.com/forum/forum1-topic2442

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Here's (maybe) a new Animoto video

Here's the first video I've made to promote my new Casino Rueda class at Waegook Cook in Gumi. I'm also pleasantly surprised but pleased that I was able to get the embed code from Animoto to 'set' in here. I used to not be able to do that.

Review videos for Waegook Cook dancers.

Here's some videos I'm putting up specifically for our dancers at Waegook Cook in Gumi.  These are most of the moves that we learned and practiced last week.  We'll review them of course this coming week but we want to spend as little time on them as possible in order that we can move forward to other, more exciting patterns to spice up or choreography.

Here you'll see guapea (AKA: guapeando), dile que no, exhibela and enchufla (AKA: enchufe or enchufle).  The only one I couldn't find just now was 'para el media' (or maybe it' s 'medio.......I don't remember :-).

Please review these and try to absorb as much of the flavor as you can.  A couple of things I'd like you to particularly notice:

1.     Notice that they don't bounce up and down......all the 'action' is in the knees and hips.

2.     Notice that they don't take big steps but rather only enough of a step to make their hips move and to be able to feel the rhythm.

3.     Notice that their knees bend when they're moving their legs.  It hard to describe in just words but it is part of that 'latin hip movement' thing that all the teachers talk about.  It sometimes seems strange at first and then suddenly.......you feel it and get it!

Here's the videos:

Announcing new Free Casino Rueda class in Gumi

Read my post over on WanderingSalsero about the the casino rueda class I'm starting over at Waegook Cook in Gumi.

Click here.

Casino Rueda in Daegu

Casino Reuda is alive and reasonably well in central S.Korea.  In the city of Daegu to be more exact.

Yes, I've been having lots of fun attending the Saturday night Casino Rueda Class at Babalu Salsa Club in the downtown (AKA: "Rodeo") area of Daegu.  The classes are run by two young ladies, Susie and Melinda.  And just recently our class has been integrated with a similar casino rueda class run by a Korean guy (who names escapes me at the moment).

Point is......it's there.  And it's getting better every week.

The classes start at 8 pm and go til 10 pm. and are divided up into sometimes beginner, intermediate and advanced.   There has been some talk just last week about getting more sophisticated in our certification of proficiency levels but.....that'll take care of itself.

I think it's safe to say that 99.99% of the moves we're doing would be found on DVD 1 or 2 of Salsa Lovers (I always like to use them as a comparison :-) .  I think, now that the classes seem to be growing very rapidly, that we'll have a smaller group delving more deeply into more advanced moves.

I've got a bunch of videos and pictures that I just haven't had time to post here.  But I will.

One thing possibly of interest to you...if you're thinking about attending.  I think I finally found a reasonably priced jimjilbang in that area.  That means that if you're coming from out of town to attend the class, you don't have to worry about an inexpensive, safe and clean place to stay.

There's actually at least 4 jimjilbangs in that area but this all of them, except the one that I noticed right next to the train station and finally tried this weekend, either had noise, comfort or distance issues.  The one next to the train station is only 6000 KW, is plenty big, it does have a quieter/darker room for those of us don't want to stay up all night bullshitting (like some Koreans seem to like to do), plus it even has blankets if you want'em.

The rueda classes are 10,000 KW and that price includes a drink at the bar (of the club).  Sometimes there's a dance at the club on Saturday nights.  And sometimes not.  There does seem to be a problem with getting good, English language, information about salsa happenings in Daegu.  Even though there are at least 3 clubs (that I've been to so far).

If you're interested in finding about more about the casino rueda classes, they also have a Facebook page.. "Salsa For Foreigners in Daegu".  It's open to join.

The only thing I'd like to see improved is that a lot of the people who come to the class don't seem to want to hang out much after the class, even if there's a dance afterwards, and do any casino reuda.  Yeah....doesn't make much sense does it?  But.....I think that's going to improve as the classes get more fun and as we develop a large advanced group.

Casino Rueda 101 Resumes Tonight

Hope to see the regulars at the casino rueda class tonight at Candela Dance Studio, the Home of Korean Casino, in Yangjae.

Casino Rueda 101.....next class tomorrow!

Ola ......Lads and lassies.  Guess what's up tomorrow(Sept.26th)?

You got it!!  Tomorrow, September 26, is class number two as we delve further into the excitment of casino rueda.  Will you be there?

I hope so because last week we had a great time.  We had a great crowd and I'm we'll have another enthusiastic crowd tomorrow. 

We'll be  going further beyond the basics that we covered last week and learning a few nice little casino patterns that'll give you something to 'show off' the first time we actually do a rueda in public.

Korea Latin and Salsa has a social coming up very soon, on a Friday, at American Latina.  So, I'm thinking that'll be our first real performance.  Can't wait.

Anyway, hope to see you in class tomorrow.  If you wanted to make it but couldn't, well.......here's the deal:  If you already know your salsa basics (i.e. crossbody lead, right hand turn, and basic step) then come on down to the class.  If you're a total beginner then I'm going to ask you to wait til the next series of classes.

The reason for that is that these classes are progressive and I don't want to hold up or delay the people who were able to come last week by going over old stuff.  They're red hot and ready to go and I want to teach them as much as possible in this next 3 weeks.

Ok?

But you can start over in 3 weeks if you want too.  We'll probably have another bootcamp too.

P.S.  We'll be going out dancing after the class tomorrow too so...plan on that, OK?

Casino Rueda 101.....Fall Semester starts Saturday!!

 

New pattern for next week Casino Reuda 101 Pt4

Here's a pattern we're going to learn next week at Casino Rueda 101 Wk4.  It's all just enchufla or a variation.  Also notice that it's 4 parts long.  So it'll fit into the music perfectly.  Later, we can add something else to it and make it real nice.