Salsa music is one of the popular types of music in Panama, like its name implies (literally: sauce) is a mixture of flavors made for dancing. Descendant from Cuban music, salsa encompasses many different rhythms, like mambo, chachachá, son and even rumba. Being a tropical rhythm, Panama has engraved its name in the history of Salsa music and it’s one of most mentioned venues after Cuba and Puerto Rico. Famous singer Ruben Blades and composer Omar Alfanno are Panamanians.

Many songs internationally acclaimed also mention this country, as homage. Salsa dancing is practically requirement for club goers, most clubs will play a long Salsa mix for couples to dance. The change of rhythm and style is an aid for meeting partners, because it’s danced in close proximity. This is a perfect chance to be a little intimate and overcome the touch barrier. For the skilled tourist, there are plenty of places where to show off their best moves. For the novice or those interested in learning, there are many dancing schools in Panama with affordable prices and flexible schedules.

There is a new dance fever hitting the streets of Panama and it is called Passa Passa also known as dance hall. Passa passa is an addictive energetic dance which worked its way to the streets of Colon and various places in the city of Panama. There are even people dancing to this popular Caribbean rhythm in the outskirts of Panama where the smaller towns are located.

Dance hall originally came from Jamaica and started in the late 70s. This dance and music initially came from reggae and like reggae; dance hall brings many different people across the globe together. Although dance hall or passa passa dancing came from Jamaica, it has moved on to different countries like Trinidad and Tobago, Barbados, and now Panama. Passa passa involves a lot of movement and difficult steps, but it can be learned with practice. Once you got the passa passa riddim you can pretty much learn to dance all the steps. There are very popular parties such as dutty fridaze where many people go to dance passa passa. Usually men like women go to these parties to compete with their rivals. There are many popular dance hall steps like hot wuk, tek weh yuself, willie bounce, dutty wine, and wacky dip that they dance when competing. These dance hall moves are a more decent way of dancing passa passa.
Others dance passa passa in a more sexual way. This usually involves the man and the woman dancing erotically. Not everyone likes this type of dance so a lot of people in the Caribbean and Panama prefer to dance Passa passa in the more decent version. The general attire worn by women dancers for this kind of dancing is more revealing and sometimes even R rated. Others go dressed normally but this doesn’t stop them from busting a move on the dance floor.

Everyday more and more dance steps are being created for dancehall. Some very popular dancers of passa passa are Ding Dong and his crew. They dance passa passa steps like the badman pull up, wacky dip and many more. Ding Dong also makes popular dance hall music which Panama enjoys listening to. You get different themes and tones from this kind of dance and music. A lot of passa passa rhythms’ are influenced by religion, sex, violence, social issues, and issues like women’s rights.

Panama dancers are catching up with the rest of the Caribbean pretty fast. Soon all of Panama will be dancing the difficult but fun steps to passa passa. Next time you go out, look for your nearest dance hall parties and learn the steps to the most popular dance in the Caribbean. In passa passa for every song there is a dance.

Are you good at dance? Do you like dancing Salsa? If both answers are affirmative, then you have the chance to participate in the First Salsa Congress in Panama. This is the first time that an event like this takes place in the country. Panama Hot was given exclusive rights to represent the World Salsa Open. The festival will start on June 26th and will finish on June 29th.

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A nice surprise for your lover and for you to express your inner self can be a lap dance. Not only you can keep your clothes on (or not) and enjoy some extra closeness with your man, but a lap dance can also boost the level of confidence you have in yourself.   Lap dances can be a fun way to spice up the bedroom life while you can control how much or how little you show of your body and, at the same time, you bring another aspect of yourself that has been hidden in self doubts.

First, think about the music you want to use. Do you preferred something soft and romantic? Or maybe you like something more sensual? Music is an important thing to create a good atmosphere for the lap dance and give you some extra confidence when you strip. Some choices in music can be: Let’s get it on by Marvin Gaye,I touch myself by The Divinyls, Promiscuous girl by Nelly Furtado, Wicked Games by Chris Isaak, Baila pa mi by Wisin & Yandel.  Second, create a sexy and inviting atmosphere. You can do the lap dance on a chair, couch, or bed. But, choose a place where you are going to feel secure and comfortable. I recommend the bedroom or living room. You can set candles around the room and turn off the lights. You can place a mirror and see how you move. And if you are going to be using a chair, try to get one without arm rests, it’ll give you more space to move around.

Third, you need to dress for success. Depending if you are dancing with your clothes on or if you are preparing to strip, you need to choose something appropriate for the lap dance. For a striptease you need to layer into several pieces of sexy clothing to pump the experience. Lingerie always works well. If you are going to do the lap dance fully clothed, you can dance wearing a sensual dress and end in your underwear. Fourth, review your moves. You can get some lap dances videos on the internet or buy an instructional DVD. Remember you need to feel sexy; you need to feel the dance. Practice in front of a mirror and watch how you dance.

All it takes to give a lap dance to your man is the will to do it. Practice being and feeling sexy and the rest would come along naturally. Remember you don’t need to have the perfect body. There is nothing to be ashamed of. Go wild and enjoy your lap dance tonight.

The Lion Dance emerges during the Dynasty Tang.  According to the legends, the Emperor had a nightmare in which a strange looking creature saves him.  The next morning, the Emperor realized the strange creature of his dream resembled a habitant of the west:  the lion.  Quickly, the lion became a symbol of good luck across all China.  It was believe the lion kept away bad spirits.  Today, the Lion Dance is an important part for opening ceremonies of businesses and important events in China.  The real meaning of this dance is that the lions are the ones in charge of opening the gates of heaven for all God’s blessing can reach all of those who watches this dance.

The lion’s dancers, who came from China to Panama, had an average age of 17 years old.  With a great display of agility and skills they dance around moving the lion’s head at the same time they executed the dance movements and Kung Fu steps at the rhythm of the drum.  The most skillful part of the dance was when the lions danced on top of posts.  Dancing on posts is a lion dance characteristic of the Chinese where the Chinese dancer put on display they great ability and hard work.

Recently, Atlapa Convention Center was the venue for the celebration of the Chinese New Year, with the participation of folkloric dance teams, Chinese dancers, ballet, karaoke, and a delegation from China who performed the Legion Dance and the Dragon Dance.  This group came from the city of Zhanjian, province of Guangdong, and they were part of the dance team performing on the opening of the Olympic Games Beijing 2008.

Panama is known as the “crisol de razas” or “melting pot” and that’s why it has adopted many of the traditions from these cultures, special in its dances. Dancing is not just a way of expression and sensuality but it is also a way to make dreams become true. With many competitions worldwide, Panama couldn’t fall behind and brought in “Bailando por un Sueño” or Dancing for a dream (for its English translation, which is a Mexican show produced by Telemetro in Panama.

In this television show, the contenders are coupled with national and/or international stars to dance and win the chance to fulfill the contestant’s dream. Many different dances are presented throughout the show, such as: mambo, tango, bolero, salsa, samba, hip hop, pop, rumba flamenco, disco, merengue, Reggaeton and many more.

Each couple has a choreographer who trains them all week long until the day of the show. Each season lasts about 8 weeks and each episode are presented among 1 to 3 different rhythms. There was even a special show dedicated to Celia Cruz on the last season of this contest.

As we all know, the dance in Panama has achieved great popularity; reason why contests such as “Bailando por un Sueño” are a total success in our country. There is no doubt that dancing is the biggest form of sensuality, eroticism and expression worldwide.

For more information about this contest in Panama, log into http://www.telemetro.com/bailando

Ballet is a standard art form today, known and loved by audiences across the world. It is a formalized form of dance developed in the early 1600s as a concert dance form. It is an elite form of dancing that requires foot muscle movement, and suspension on the toes. This kind of dance requires strength, resilience, elegance and grace all at once, while making the different movements. In ballet, dance is performed purely to an orchestral accompaniment; there is no singing. Early forms used long skirt; today’s dances use both tutu skirts and tutu bodices. Learning ballet requires perseverance and hard work. Ballet technique is considered to be the basis of training for all types of dance like salsa, tango, cha cha cha between others.

Today exist the classical, neoclassical and contemporary ballet. The classical ballet is the most formal of the ballet styles; it adheres to traditional ballet technique, is generally structured on a narrative pretext they can be based on traditional stories. Neoclassical ballet describes the ballet style using a traditional ballet vocabulary and is usually more modern or complex than in classical ballet, because is more varied. The modern or contemporary ballet is influenced by both classical ballet and modern dance. The concepts of the contemporary ballet came from the ideas of today’s’ modern dance.

Here in Panama City, Panama academies were formed to pass on the fundamentals and traditions of this popular dance with a great quality of dance training. In the different academies that exist in Panama City, Panama you can learn the different ballet steps and the fundamental movements and positions you need to get started in this classical dance.

I had begun a new journey into dance: Samba. Samba came to Brazil via African slaves.  The meaning of the word Samba is an ongoing debate whether it means belly button, pleasing, enchanting, honoring, or revering.  What I am sure is that Samba comes from the African word Semba and this very erotic dance is highly known around the world as synonymous of Brazil.  When we think of Brazil we think of Samba and beautiful women.

Three Saturdays ago, I took my first class of Samba.  A friend and I enrolled together in this energetic and fun class.  We went to Rasheda studio expecting to find a few students, but we were very please that this is a full class.  The instructor, Elizabeth, is from Sao Paulo, and she came ready to teach the most basic step in Samba.  Elizabeth told us to relax and have fun with this dance.  Samba has not steps with specific meaning like in ballet.  It is a more free spirit dance where you can make it as sexy and erotic as you like, or you can just do a nice dance.  To Sambas is about feeling free and use your body to express this feeling.  Samba is using your femininity and saying without words how happy you are.

The basic step is about stepping back with one foot while you touch with the heel of that foot you moved the side of the arch of the foot that didn´t move.  You do a three step movement while going back and once you manage to do the step, a lot easier than it sounds, you can focus on do some movement with your upper body.  We spend a full hour doing this basic step at different speed, and I didn’t really found the femininity and free part she explained. It was pleasing enough, but I guess it will take a lot of practice for me.

Last week Elizabeth was out of town.  So Kira, a belly, samba, and salsa dancer, was there to substitute for Elizabeth.  I thought we were going to be doing the same basic step in Samba and I didn’t know better cause I missed a class the week before.  Boy, it was nothing like that.  Kira puts on a full hour of nonstop aerobic exercise.  We were moving, dancing, jumping, and all this while on our toes.  It felt great to be shaking the booty and finally experiencing the free I was looking for.  Kira is a very good dancer and she showed us three new steps in Samba:  Side to side jumping-shaking thing that I can’t really explain, going forward with pelvis circles, and down to the floor with pelvic circles.  Also she took the basic step to the next level making us do it very fast and incorporating twist and drops with the hips and the use of the arms.

Kira explained to use that she learn just watching her instructor, without any instruction about how to do the steps.  She basically stood there in her class and followed the instructor.  Good thing for us, she is very patience and explained each step very well.

At the end, we have all this great feelings around us from the enchanting dancing. It was exhausting and exhilarating, but I am definitely waiting for Saturday for the next class.

What’s next?  Stay tune!

Please refer to my last article. And Keep up with the good flow of striptease, motivate yourself and let me give you another tip that will definitively help you to improve your striptease.

Always remember this: guys love striptease so always focus on that. Specially in our culture men love Panamanian girls

Step 7: Be always flirting. There is no such thing as striptease without being flirting. Guys like to be tease. Then tease your guy! Play with your hair, look at him in a sexy way, wink at him, touch your breast, and show your cleavage. That will drive him crazy (for a beginner this is the best weapon to use) for sure.

Step 8: Rip it off!!! True professional strippers (nude girls in Panama City) use clothes made for this specific purpose. If you can set this up, perfect! If not…well try to use sexy and cheap clothes that won’t hurt your wallet if you destroy them in a passionate and wild striptease session. Undress slowly and deliberately. Make a big production every time you remove a piece of clothing. Make ‘em wait. Torture your audience!

Step 9:  Use your hair. Hair is another sexy tool that is required during striptease session. Why? It is simply, because men love hair. If your hair is long then toss it about. Let it fall across your face. If your hair is short, then run your fingers through it. Many escorts in Panama use wigs to enhance the fantasy.

Step 10: It´s called a striptease. Take it slowly, enjoy it. This is the art of exotic dancing, the Tantric dance. Now you can remove the last of your sultry garments. Approach your frenzied lover & slowly untie them. I think you can take it from here!

Why you should do it?

Well, why not?! But if you really need a reason, how about… because it’s sexy? Because it’s fun? Because it makes life more exciting? Because it’s harmless? Because your lover will be reminded how amazing you actually are? Because it’s liberating? Because you can? Enough reasons?

Recommended Music

• Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus

• Madonna – Justify My Love

• Gwen Stefani – Luxurious

• Justin Timberlake – What Goes Around Comes Around / My Love

• Timbaland – The Way I Are

• Beyonce – Freakum Dress

• Kylie Minogue – Chocolate

• Guns and Roses-Sweet Child of Mine

Have fun!