| Casino is a Cuban ballroom dance that emerged | | | | as the favorite ways of recreation and of socially |
| during the late 1950s due to the evolution and | | | | relating among the different strata of society. Casino |
| integration of other musical genres and modalities, | | | | dancing is danced with greater or lesser skills by |
| such as the danzón and the danzonete. As a dance, | | | | children, young people and adults in the most diverse |
| it reflects greatly the character of the Cuban people | | | | spaces, no matter how large or limited. |
| and constitutes a synthesis of the characteristics of | | | | This style has been danced with all the musical |
| the Cubans; it is a summary of all the components of | | | | genres or variants in fashion that for its rhythmic |
| this nation. | | | | structure or musical tempo permitted to perform the |
| Casino is considered the last ballroom dance created | | | | basic steps, which has allowed Casino dancing to stay |
| by the Cuban people. It came up like an anonymous | | | | alive in the taste of the dancers. Nevertheless, there |
| dancing manifestation harbored in the cores of the | | | | are many elements that have contributed to the |
| urban popular classes. It is a dance to enjoy alone or | | | | spreading of Casino in Cuba and abroad; the growing |
| in couples, it is not identified with any religious rites | | | | international popularity of Salsa music being among |
| and its movements do not have particular meanings. | | | | the most important. Identified as the Cuban way of |
| The contemporary dynamic is reflected today in the | | | | dancing Salsa, Casino has become the ideal vehicle for |
| great creativity and liberty of the dancers when | | | | enjoying this form of music, something not |
| choosing their corporal and spatial movements. | | | | paradoxical at all if taken into account that the Cuban |
| Nowadays, Casino dancing constitutes the ballroom | | | | Son is the origin for both manifestations. |
| dance with greater validity in Cuba, which adds more | | | | Young people and adults from different parts of the |
| followers by the minute, and it is a socio-cultural | | | | world have shown interest in learning how to dance |
| event that has influenced directly the development, | | | | Casino in the "same way Cubans do"; something quite |
| creativity, and diversity of the music that one can | | | | complicated because the cubanía, of paramount |
| dance to in our country from the late 1950s up to | | | | importance to master this dance, is what Cubans |
| the present. This give-and-take between popular | | | | convey with their gestures, attitudes, feelings, |
| music and ballroom dancing has been of the greater | | | | thoughts, and soul. In Cuba, rumor has it that one is |
| importance in order to satisfy the taste of the | | | | born dancing Casino, so he or she who does not |
| Cubans of "dancing nicely"; and above all, in order to | | | | dance Casino is not a Cuban. |
| maintain for several generations these two elements | | | | |