SENSUAL BACHATA
SENSUAL BACHATA
ORIGINS OF SENSUAL
KORKE & JUDITH
SENSUAL BACHATA IS GENERALLY ACCREDITED AS ORIGINATING IN CADIZ, SPAIN AROUND 2005 INSPIRED BY JORGE ESCALONA (aka KORKE) & JUDITH CORDERO PEREIRO.
OF COURSE, THERE WILL HAVE BEEN OTHER DANCERS IMPROVISING SENSUAL MOVEMENTS TO BACHATA & OTHER DANCES PRIOR TO THIS, HOWEVER KORKE & JUDITH FORMALIZED THE STYLE.
THE COUPLE INTERPRETED THE MUSIC IN A SENSUAL WAY BY GIVING EXPRESSION TO LONGER MOVEMENTS & BODY ISOLATIONS.
IN MORE RECENT YEARS, DANIEL & DESIREE HAVE BECOME THE MOST PROMINENT SENSUAL BACHATA PROPONENTS.
ELEVATION to OWN SUB-STYLE
MOST POPULAR SUB-STYLE
ALTHOUGH STRICTLY SPEAKING SENSUAL BACHATA BELONGS TO THE MODERNA BACHATA CATEGORY, IT IS SUCH A POPULAR INTERPRETATION OF THE DANCE THAT IT HAS BEEN ELEVATED TO ITS OWN SUB-STYLE.
THIS IS A REFLECTION OF THE FACT THAT IT IS UNDOUBTEDLY BY FAR THE MOST POPULAR BACHATA DANCE STYLE DANCED THROUGHOUT EUROPE.
THE MUSIC
R&B RE-MIXES
SENSUAL BACHATA MUSIC TENDS TO BE SLOWER THAT TRADITIONAL BACHATA & IS OFTEN DANCED TO BACHATA RE-MIXES OF POPULAR MAIN STREAM POP SONGS.
THAT IS TO SAY, THE ORIGINAL R&B POP SONG IS RE-COMPILED TO HAVE A BACHATA RHYTHM SO THAT THE BACHATA THREE STEPS & A TAP DANCE FORMAT CAN BE APPLIED.
HOW DOES SENSUAL LOOK
CIRCULAR MOVEMENTS
DANCERS MIX BACHATA BASICS WITH CIRCULAR BODY MOVEMENTS BY INTERPRETING THE MUSIC USING BODY WAVES, BODY ISOLATIONS & DIPS.
THE CIRCULAR MOVEMENT IS INSPIRED BY DANCES SUCH AS BRAZILIAN ZOUK, CONTEMPORARY DANCE, SALSA & HIP HOP.
INSPIRATION
ALTHOUGH THERE HAVE BEEN OBSERVATIONS FROM SOME OBSERVERS THAT SENSUAL BACHATA IS JUST A COPY OF BRAZILIAN ZOUK & NOT A DANCE IN ITS OWN RIGHT, WITH FULL RESPECT TO ALL VIEW POINTS THIS REPROACH SEEMS A LITTLE UNFAIR.
ALL DANCES & ANY TYPE OF PHYSICALITY ARE NECESSARILY INSPIRED BY OTHER DANCES OR FORMS OF MOVEMENT.
FOR INSTANCE, IN MARTIAL ARTS MANY KUNG FU STYLES ARE BASED AROUND THE WAY ANIMALS IN NATURE MOVE.
THERE HAS NEVER BEEN A DANCE THAT WAS CREATED OUT OF A VACUUM BECAUSE ALL DANCERS, ARTISTS & MUSICIANS ARE NECESSARILY INFLUENCED BY WHAT HAS GONE BEFORE & ASPIRE TO USE IT IN NEW WAYS.
AS HAS BEEN SAID “CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN LIFE”
CHANGE IS THE ONLY CONSTANT IN LIFE
CLOSE CONNECTION DANCE
CLOSE BODY CONNECTION IS ESSENTIAL
SENSUAL BACHATA DIFFERS FROM A LATIN DANCE LIKE SALSA IN THAT IT IS PRIMARILY A CLOSE PARTNER DANCE RATHER THAN AN OPEN HOLD DANCE.
IN CROSS BODY SALSA THE STRUCTURE OF THE LEADER & FOLLOWER CONTINUOUSLY SWITCHING POSITIONS BACK & FORTH ALONG THE SAME LINE MEANS THAT THE FOLLOWER HAS A READILY AVAILABLE ROAD MAP TO GUIDE POSITIONING.
HOWEVER, IN SENSUAL BACHATA THE DANCERS CAN DANCE IN ANY DIRECTION SO THE CROSS BODY STRUCTURE TO GUIDE POSITIONING IS NOT PRESENT.
AS A CONSEQUENCE, IT IS ESSENTIAL THAT THE COUPLE DANCE CLOSE AND MAINTAIN AS MANY POINTS OF CONNECTION AS POSSIBLE, BE THAT ARMS , SHOULDERS, RIBS, CHEST, HIPS OR LEGS.
PRACTICALITIES
FROM A PRACTICAL POINT OF VIEW, DANCING SENSUAL BACHATA AT A SALSA STYLE OPEN HOLD DISTANCE IS NOT GOING TO WORK.
IT WILL MAKE LEADING & FOLLOWING IMPOSSIBLE BECAUSE IT LOOSES THE ESSENCE OF THE DANCE.
AN EASY GOING, OPEN MINDED APPROACH BEST SUITS SENSUAL BACHATA.
WHEN YOU ARE ON THE DANCE FLOOR ONE NEEDS TO BE TRUE TO THE ESSENCE OF BEING A DANCER.
