International Rumba

Rumba is a vertical expression of a horizontal desire. It is considered a very passionate dance because of the slow rhythm and the hip movement. Referred by many as a "woman's dance" because it absolutely presents the women's body shape, arms, foot and leg lines beautifully. The man should look interesting enough for the lady to try to impress him. These interactions is a demonstration of emotions and the mutual dependency of soft rhythms and quick movements, the change of movements together, then - suddenly - away from the partner, make another appropriate name: "Love Dance". Or because the priority of movements is with the lady, the "Dance of seduction". In Rumba, the "love" is however to be achieved, it is not necessarily already there.

In International Rumba every rise and fall of the feet is to be avoided. Considering the character of the dance it does not make sense. Even though we spoke of emotions: Without the proper hip movements the supposedly advanced dancer may seem odd on the floor. "Slotted" dance however does not mean, that your movements are meant to be small. It does mean that the size of a step corresponds with the hip movement which precedes and supports it. A full description of one step might be: If you want to do a back basic step, you firstly have to "settle" the hip, allowing the right part of it to lower. Secondly you rotate the left part of the hip to the right, left hip movement ending slightly back, hip is now in a diagonal position. Now this diagonal position is turned a quarter turn to right while the right leg is led backward showing a nice knee. And then the weight is transferred backward. For a visual representation please look at how our professional dancers teach, and dance International rumba.