Similarity of Kizomba to other dances

I did this video as a response to a dance friend if mine in Seoul named Michelle. Michelle is a member of a salsa social group I'm part of up there. She likes casino rueda and came to several of the casino rueda classes I did up there. Plus she also likes Kizomba and I was able to show her what little I knew about it at the time I was living up there (near Seoul).

Michelle is also a member of my site, www.kizombadancer.com but I hadn't seen or talked to her for several months because I'd actually forgotten my ID and PW. Well, I recently remembered my ID and PW so I sent everybody a group message to let'em know I was still alive and still interested in Kizomba.

Thus......the motivation for this video. The reason I'm putting it here is because I thought what I had to tell her might be of interest to anybody else interested in Kizomba. Here's the video:

The gist of my thoughts are that, as I get further into studying Kizomba, I'm more and more getting the feeling that lots of what's in Kizomba can be integrated into Bachata.

I haven't talked to him lately but I wouldn't be surprised if Jorge Elizando isn't working on a DVD product right now called something like........ Bachazomba or something like that.

Why might he want to do that?

Easy.....

As Jorge himself pointed out to me in a previous conversation, there simply isn't any kizomba music in the US right now. Nor are the clubs familiar with it at all. So that means it would be hard (although not impossible) to birth a totally new kizomba culture in the US market.

But there is another way to get kizomba into the 'body social' of American dance.

The answer is to take certain attractive elements of Kizomba and integrate them into a dance that is well accepted...i.e. bachata. Isn't that the exact thing that Jorge did with tango and his 'bachata-tango'?

It's always been my belief that it's a lot easier than most dancers realize or even think about to integrate elements of one dance into another. Jorge did it and he, or anybody else, could do it again.