Deez Greer

Dancer creativity has resulted in amazing variations in rueda. Various formations include rueda p’affuera, rueda llanta, rueda trebol, rueda dinamica, and rueda cruzad, just to name a few. Usually you only see advanced dancers dancing these formations at large conventions. Rueda llanta for example is a variation that creates two different circles one small and one large. Dancers can switch partners within the smaller circle or within the larger circle. The rueda de casino has its roots in the 1950s in Havana, within the so-called solares - those shared courtyards where life and music mingled without filters. In those gatherings, groups of friends began to improvise figures in a circle, changing partners with f