Salsa
Caminando / Caminala
Walking. Travelling open-position walks that keep the dance (or the rueda) moving.
This move builds: Frame & Lead-Follow Clarity …on the always-on five — Connection, Frame, Comfort, Posture, Consent.
A video walkthrough for this move is on the way.
- Entry
- open, L-to-R, side-by-side
- Exit
- open, L-to-R, side-by-side
- Tempo
- any
- Musical use
- travelling
- Connector
- Yes — connects open, L-to-R, side-by-side → open, L-to-R, side-by-side vocabulary
- Level
- Intermediate
- Cluster
- Cuban-Core
- Style
- Cuban
What This Move Is
"Walking." Preserved verbatim from the user's inventory. Caminando is a broad category of travelling / rotating open-position figures that keep the dance moving; Caminala ("walk her") is a specific advanced box-pattern walk led entirely by feel, with no rote pattern. Flag: contested — the two terms are used differently across schools.
Key Points
- Lead: Lead the directional changes by feel and change handholds smoothly; keep it repeatable.
- Follow: Stay responsive — Caminala has no fixed pattern, so don't anticipate.
- Timing: A tiempo, 1-2-3 / 5-6-7; Caminala's direction changes can fall on half-counts.
- Common mistake: Follow anticipating a fixed pattern instead of staying responsive.
Style Notes
A connective, travelling figure used to keep a rueda rotating or to bridge between calls. Caminala is genuinely advanced because it's pure lead-and-follow with no script.
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