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Salsa is a popular form of Latin-American dance music, characterized by Afro-Caribbean rhythms, Cuban big-band dance melodies and elements of jazz and rock.
Salsa dancing is one of the best forms of exercise. Some of the health and fitness benefits of salsa dancing are: weight loss and muscle gain, boosting your physical endurance and range of motion all while learning the latest salsa dance steps. Dancing salsa can burn up to 10 calories a minute, without harmful side effects caused by high impact exercises such as running. By using salsa dancing to get fit, you will not only look great, but may provide a reason to get out more and improve your social life.
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Salsa music flavors arts kickoff
"This is the beginning of the ´04-´05 season, and I think we are beginning on a high note," Kennedy Center President Michael Kaiser told some 200 guests at Tuesday´s kickoff dinner celebrating the 2004 AmericArtes program and a monthlong Prelude Festival.
The evening was certainly held on an upbeat note - say about 100 or more notes a minute - which seemed the minimum provided by Puerto Rican-born salsa king Gilberto Santa Rosa in the Concert Hall later. An enthusiastic multiethnic crowd responded to his every word and song, delivered in Spanish without translation. Puerto Rican talent being featured at the performing arts´ institution through Sept. 25 include symphonic and jazz musicians, poets, vocalists, dancers, playwrights, writers and visual artists.
That provided an opening for the governor to praise a culture that "blends native, Spanish, African and other influences that have produced great artists. Yet it is music perhaps that unites all Puerto Ricans." Puerto Rico this year has provided an "unprecedented" 60 percent increase in support for the arts, she added. That amounts to $128 million for a population of 3.8 million. 
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