I love salsa dancing I been trying to convince my boyfriend to join a class with me. 
It is a great popular caribbean dance but I am not a good dancer
Do you dance that much or have never tried I love the music also so upbeat.
The basic salsa rhythm is taking 3 steps per every 4 beats.  People have tried to teach me that but have failed miserably
lol even if you can't keep up with the steps and rhythm it is still fun to try I didn't know salsa was from the Caribbean though.
Yes it has origins in the Cuban son, cha-cha-cha and mambo
That is interesting to know I always assumed because a lot of Latinos dance the salsa that it was from Mexico or some nature.
, such as Cuban, Puerto Rican, Cali Colombia, L.A. and New York styles. Salsa dance socials are commonly held in night clubs, bars, ballrooms, restaurants, and outside, especially when part of an outdoor festival.
In many styles of salsa dancing, as a dancer shifts their weight by stepping, the upper body remains level and nearly unaffected by the weight changes. Weight shifts cause the hips to move. Arm and shoulder movements are also incorporated. Salsa generally uses music ranging from about 150 bpm (
like, let’s just do this at house parties. I was trying to remove myself from that rat race or whatever."
Hodges describes the goal of the band's music as "dance music that you can actually listen to, that's good pop songs, but also you can dance to it.". Another defining characteristic is their lyrics, which often discuss death, mortality, and the end of the world but doing so over upbeat and popular dance music. Samples from lectures by Alan Watts are spliced