Ritmos Latinos is a salsa dance community with branches throughout the world. The original group was started in Tucson, Arizona, as a student club at the University of Arizona. Ritmos Latinos Indiana is a student club at Indiana University, Bloomington, that was started in 2007. All members of the Bloomington community are welcome to join the group.
We teach, practice, and perform Rueda de Casino, a group form of salsa that originated in Cuba. Rueda (from the Spanish for "wheel") is performed in a circle and is led by a caller who signals the moves. As the dancers shift from one partner to the next, they move around the wheel, or make a circuit of the rueda.
Most of the moves for Rueda de Casino can also be used in partner style salsa. When these moves are done with the same footwork as in the Rueda, the resulting dance is called Casino style salsa--it's a style that's quite popular in Cuba.
While we work primarily with Rueda de Casino, we also adapt our moves to the more common partner salsa, and we teach basic merengue and bachata moves as well.