What is the differnce between salsa and samba?

Answer 1

Salsa is danced with salsa music. Salsa music has a musical pattern of two bars of four beats. Salsa patterns typically use three steps during each four beats, one beat being skipped.
This dance is claimed to be from Cuba. Puerto Ricans and Colombians also claim it.

Samba is a lively, rhythmical dance of Brazilian origin in 2/4 time danced under the Samba music. However, there are three steps to every bar, making the Samba feel like a 3/4 timed dance.

Answer 2

What is the difference between apples and pears? It's different fruit! Same for salsa and samba. They are two different partner dances. Although I can think of a mucis piece that you can do both samba and slow salsa to, in general the music accents are different for the two. The basic step is also different, as well as all other steps and actions. For example, Samba has a lot of bounce in the body, Salsa has none.

Answer 3

Salsa is a partner dance form that corresponds to salsa music. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavour or style.

The Rumba was originally a marriage dance. Many of its movements and actions which seem to have an erotic meaning are merely depictions of simple farm tasks. The shoeing of the mare, the climbing of a rope, the courtship of the rooster and the hen, etc. It was done for amusement on the farms by the black population of Cuba. However, it became a popular ballroom dance and was introduced in the United States about 1933. It was the Americanized version for the Cuban Son and Danzon. ...