Salvo Sinardi - Sasha Kondrashova | 2023 UK Open | Amateur Latin - Samba 

Thank you for uploading their fantastic solo dance ♥️🔥

his partnering has improved so much!

Sasha is on a whole another level. What a stunner

Very strong couple 💐

I love, love her form! I cannot wait to have mine returned to me and dance again :)

Damn!!! They are on Fire!!! ❤️👏👏👏👏

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Smashy appearance and behavior. Very good rhythmic samba. Carnival spirit. Electrical excitement. Brilliant lady technique. Awesome man. This is fantastic. . Timing is excellent. And very precise. And advanced speed-up syncopation , like 1.05-6, very beautiful.

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Саша просто прекрасно танцует. Весь танец не отвести глаз.

Nice ! ❤ .. 🐰

🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉 THIS IS BEAUTIFUL ❤️

❤❤❤Spectacular couple!

I love this couple❤stunning👌👌👌

about 1 year ago my comments on this couple weren't exciting, but now this couple really rocks..

very good! 💜

Sasha is absolutely phenomenal!!

My absolute favorite!

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Todas las mujeres que se dedican al baile de salón tienen unos tipazos. ¡Piernas de infarto!

I support your comments about Ricardo and Yulia

Вот это скорость!

music ??

Hello guys, what´s the name of song please? Thank you :)

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Есть у меня автогроф Кандрашова. Помню. А вот подскажите: Саша, это? Если сказать, что она прекрасна в танце- не сказатт ничего. Это очень высокий уровень. Это то к чему должны стремиться Российские пары.

I like this. Looks like there is a rule in Italy: Thou shall take a Russian dance partner! And, damn… it works 😁

This couple reminds of Ricardo/Yulia 🥰

Samba from which country did they dance? It is not the samba of Brazil. In Brazil there are the types of samba below, which are the main ones: Carnival samba: ru-vid.comqkiUns5jwic ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zJwtGvKUpgA.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-4DZ00HB5ZV0.html Gafieira Samba (couple samba): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V46va2-W27k.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zTIeIdVbL_w.html Samba Reggae: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-pp6-XG1DcE4.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PZS22kR3BQI.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-7PLSVBRUVn0.html

Hi! As a Brazilian I don't recognize these dances as samba. I did some research in the internet and discovered many interesting things about samba. I was very curious to find out why what they call "International Samba" has become so uncharacteristic compared to the real Brazilian samba. Samba was created in Brazil and its origin is the drumming brought by slaves of people of African origin, mixed with European rhythms such as Polka, Waltz, among others. Initially, the dance parties of slaves of people of African origin in the state of Bahia were called "samba". The first manifestations of samba date back to the 1910s. As a musical genre, samba is influenced by batuque, lundu or polka and is even associated with maxixe. "Samba de Gafieira", which is the original samba de salón in Brazil, is the result of several influences, so it's important to know each one of these influences to understand the creation of the original Samba de Gafieira, its basis, and then understand its evolution with over time: Lundu, Jongo, Partido Alto, Capoeira, Samba do Malandro, Maxixe and Waltz. I saw a video that made me understand that it was not the Europeans who robbed us, but that the white Brazilian elite that appropriated the samba of the blacks and glamorized samba by eliminating its African influence and that it was this glamorized version that the government and the Brazilian elite of the time passed on to the Europeans (I think it's because they considered the original samba vulgar to dance in European halls at the time). Therefore, it's not Walter Laird's fault either, since he frequented the salons of the Brazilian elite and not the environment where the original samba was danced (in the street and bars with the people, mainly where it was frequented by Brazilian black people). In my opinion, as samba is an Afro-Brazilian culture, its elements with African influence cannot be removed. In my opinion, after removing the African influences, the resulting samba that originated what is now called "International Samba" was more similar to the old maxixe than to the true Samba de Gafieira. There were two versions of maxixe: the original, which is more erotic, ill-behaved and sensual and danced by the lower classes, and the version adapted for the elites, which is a more well-behaved version (the one that was passed on to foreigners). As maxixe influenced samba, these two versions of maxixe probably also generated the two versions of samba de salón: a more sensual one and a more well-behaved one, and generated the mess we are currently witnessing. See what the true maxixe was like, bolder and considered more vulgar at the time: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-q78QC47iP_o.html Wellington Lopes & Sheila Aquino Maxixe (ancestor os Samba Gafieira) - Paris 2013-01-05: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bNg0FtDM0-E.html (I think this could be the version influenced by the maxixe danced by the lower classes of Brazilian society in the early 20th century, as it's more daring and sensual than the "behaved" version danced by the elites). ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-2v4gBd9GubA.html "Behaved" version danced by the elites: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-10HT8s3f3jQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GySJBN9Kdlw.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-PCKlzERLaRo.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AFC8YjI8aMk.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V4RAh8RcT8s.html In the first half of the video below it shows the dances/songs that influenced "Samba de Gafieira" and in the second half it shows the real Brazilian ballroom samba (Samba de Gafieira) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-BBQ9Q8stm7E.html. Video of Samba de Gafieira 1950s - ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OE-jabvtAHY.html Below, videos of the modern Samba de Gafieira: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-V46va2-W27k.html (Note: When the men are dancing alone, they dance the "Samba do Malandro") ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zTIeIdVbL_w.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--7FiMNnVoKQ.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_lmxvSlzM0U.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-esaWBiFXIss.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gxalWz6ECaY.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KNJud2zFf3o.html There are specific songs for dancing Gafieira Samba, because the rhythm and speed are different from the carnival samba. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OE02BM3tKes.html www.youtube.com/@GafieiraPraDancar/videos These RU-vid channels teach you how to dance Gafieira Samba: www.youtube.com/@CanaldoSambadeGafieira/videos www.youtube.com/@tematicoscosta/search?query=gafieira

Infelizmente isso não é samba 😢

I just realized this was amateur. This was nice but they were too stiff. Latin hip movement was missing