Ritmo y Movimiento Performance
February 21st, 2010

Ritmo y Movimiento is Ryan Mead and Sidney Weaverling's advanced salsa and rueda student group. The piece is choreographed by Ryan Mead to "Sabor, Swing, y Sahoco" by Gonzalo Grau y La Clave Secreta.

This choreography is inspired by Japanese formations and is based on a way of dancing casino called "Al Revés" or "Mandinga." Everything that normally happens on the left side of the body happens on the right side instead, and vice versa. For much of the piece, the dancers wearing white dance "Al Revés," so that they are exactly mirroring the dancers wearing black.