Swing Rueda
I came across this quote in a blog:
It was a swing rhuetta workshop – like square dancing, but with swing dancing, and in a circle.
(Here’s the cite, but you won’t be able to access it because it’s protected. Apparently protected sites come through just fine in the LiveJournal RSS feed.)
Swing rhuetta? Never heard of it. Off to Google. Nothing. Did I mean “swing rhetta”? Nothing relevant. Let’s try it without the “h”. “Swing ruetta” Google helpfully asks if I mean “swing rueda”. Bingo!
Rueda is danced in a circle with two or more couples. There is a dancer who calls the moves which the entire circle executes in unison. Some moves require partner changes and that’s when the fun begins.
Check out Swing Rueda – Circling the Globe! There’s a list of moves here, which include the Sushi Roll, Amoeba, and Treble Clef.
Swing rueda is based on Salsa Rueda or Rueda de Casino Interesting quote:
Although the names of the calls are presently the same across the board, the different towns in Cuba used their own calls. This was due to the fact that when the pioneers of Rueda de Casino started, they wanted to keep others from participating in their Ruedas. Nowadays many local variations of the calls can be found. They can change from town to town or even from teacher to teacher. For example, if you learn rueda in London you won’t normally be able to dance it with people who learnt with a different teacher. Furthermore, when a teacher runs out of calls but wants his class to keep going and make money, he often makes up new calls. This goes to detriment of the fun of dancing rueda with people you just met, but makes for an expanding world of rueda.