February 2009
Monthly Archive
CUBONICS: For those of you who keep reading my T-shirt
Posted by eddiea24 on 28 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Cuba, Social
| English | Spanish Translations | What it really means | |
| 1 | I don’t care a whistle. | Me importa un pito. | I don’t give a damn |
| 2 | I shit on the tomato’s mother. | Me cago en la madre de los tomates. | Damn it!- Something went wrong |
| 3 | Send eggs. | Manda huevos. | Unbelievable |
| 4 | He doesn’t shoot a pea | No dispara un chicharo. | A person who doesn’t do anything |
| 5 | I care three cucumbers. | Me importa tres pepinos. | I couldn’t care less |
| 6 | They took my liver out | Me sacaron el higado. | They truly pissed me off-They exhausted me |
| 7 | You have me until the last hair | Me tienes hasta el ultimo pelo. | Sick and tired |
| 8 | Children talk when the hens piss | Los ninos hablan cuando las gallinas mean. | Kids should be seen and not heard |
| 9 | You put the lid on the jar | Le pusiste la tapa al pomo. | The ultimate |
| 10 | What itches you? | Que te pica? | What the hell’s wrong with you? |
| 11 | You don’t paint anything. | Tu no pintas nada. | You’re irrelevant-You’re not effective |
| 12 | Let’s throw a foot. | Vamos a echar un pie. | Let’s get going – Let’s dance. |
| 13 | Eating what the chicken nibbles | Comiendo de lo que pica el pollo. | Wasting time-Not paying attention. |
| 14 | When the frog grows hair | Cuando la rana crien pelo. | Never going to happen-When chickens grow hair . |
| 15 | They are taking out our penny | Nos estan sacando el kilo. | Their getting the most out of us. |
| 16 | You left us planted | Nos dejaste plantados. | You stood us up. |
| 17 | It formed! | Se formo! | The shit hit the fan. |
| 18 | You’re salted. | Estas salao. | You are jinxed. |
| 19 | You ate it, brother. | Te la comiste, mi hermano. | You did great. |
| 20 | You are finishing | Estas acabando. | Same as above |
| 21 | This egg wants salt. | Este huevo quiere sal. | You want something from me. |
| 22 | You’re drinking my hair | Me estas tomando el pelo. | Pulling my leg |
| 23 | He doesn’t have hair in his tongue | No tiene pelos en la lengua. | Someone who’s very blunt. |
| 24 | Termites fell on the piano | Le cayo comejen al piano. | This is it! |
| 25 | Face of a stick | Cara de palo. | Poker face-A very fresh person. |
| 26 | Keep sleeping on that side | Sigue durmiendo de ese lado. | Keep dreaming |
| 27 | There is no evil that won’t come for good | No hay mal que por bien no venga. | Things happen for a reason-A blessing in disguise |
| 28 | I’m going to do of the fat sight | Me voy hacer de la vista gorda. | Looking the other way |
| 29 | He finished with the farm and the mangoes | Acabo con la quinta y con los mangos | He took it all |
| 30 | He is of country or death | Este es de patria o muerte | Do or die. |
| 31 | Heart of melon | Corazon de melon. | Sweetheart |
| 32 | Want to take low mangoes | Quieres coger mango bajitos | Won’t be taken for a fool |
| 33 | He doesn’t have two fingers of forehead | No tiene dos dedos de frente. | Very dumb |
| 34 | At one my mule | A la una mi mula. | On the double. |
| 35 | For later is late | Para luego es tarde. | Let’s do it now-Let’s get going |
| 36 | The shrimp that falls asleep, the current takes away | Camaron que se duerme se lo lle a la corriente. | Don’t leave for later what you can do today – You’re an idiot |
| 37 | We were few and Catana gave birth | Eramos pocos y pario Catana. | Too many of us |
| 38 | Bad lightning break you | Mal rayo te parta. | Drop dead |
| 39 | In saint of what? | A santo de que? | Why the hell…? |
| 40 | In case of the flies | Por si las moscas | Just in case |
| 41 | Little feet, what do I want you for | Paticas pa’ que te quiero. | I’m outta here like a bat outta hell |
| 42 | What about you? | Y tu que? | What’s up? |
| 43 | You’re in the moon of Valencia | Estas en la luna de Valencia. | You’re spaced out |
| 44 | He’s looking for the four legs of the cat | Le anda buscando las 4 patas al gato | Getting too picky |
| 45 | From lame waters help me God, from the big kahuna, I’ll help myself | De aguas mansas me salve Dios, que de las bravas me cuido yo. | Still waters run deep |
| 46 | He’s shitted | Esta cagao. | He’s lucky |
| 47 | Here you don’t give feet | Aqui no das pie. | You’re getting way over your head |
| 48 | You came to dance to the house of the top | Viniste a bailar a casa del trompo. | Same as above |
| 49 | To shut up to your hens! | A callar a sus gallinas! | You don’t shoosh me! |
| 50 | From Christmas to St. John | De pascuas a San Juan. | Once in a blue moon |
| 51 | Careful, the devil knows more for being old than for being the devil | Cuidado que mas sabe el diablo por viejo que por diablo. | Trust me, I’ve been around the block and know what I’m saying |
| 52 | Throw the rock and hide the hand | Tira la piedra y esconde la mano. | A sneaky person who likes to stir trouble |
| 53 | I had fun like a midget | Me divertí como un enano. | I had a great time |
Dance Workshops with Ryan and Sidney – Saturday, March 14th and Sunday, March 15th, 2009
Posted by ryanandsidney on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Events, Instruction
Hey Seattle Casineros!
We are excited to announce that we will be teaching at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center in Seattle on Saturday, March 14th from 1:00pm to 5:00pm and on Sunday, March 15th from 1:00pm to 5:00pm.
We’d love to hear what sort of classes you would be most interested in attending as we are setting up our class schedule now. Below are a few possibilities. We’d be very curious to hear your ideas. Please let us know what interests you the most. If you could rate your top eight favorites we would really appreciate it. Thanks! Please send your replies to ryanandsidney@gmail.com
Salsa Workout
Dancing the Rhythms of Timba
Miami Style vs. Cuban Style
Group Moves
Sorpresa (everyone leads and follows)
Al Reves (everything is backwards)
Women’s Styling
Men’s Styling
Athletic Moves
Cuban Popular Dance - Mambo, Comparsa, Conga, Pilon…
Roots of Salsa in the Rueda – Son, Cha-cha-cha, Mambo, Macuta…
Partnering Technique
Our Favorite Essential and Basic Casino Moves
Our Favorite Intermediate Level Casino Moves
Our Favorite Really Complicated Casino Moves
How to change time while partner dancing and/or in the rueda
Dancing and Understanding Clave
Workshop in developing your own original choreography
Sal-Samba – Brazilian and Cuban Dance
Cuban Cabaret – Movement and Styling for Women
Timba Appreciation Listening Class
Anything else???
We appreciate your input and will create a final class schedule over the next couple of days. We’ll keep you posted.
Please let us know if you think you will be able to attend our workshops.
We look forward to seeing you and dancing with you in just two weeks!
Ryan and Sidney
Grupo Ashé is at Navya Lounge tonight (Friday 2/27)!
Posted by percuba on 27 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Events, Music
Percuba Productions presents a Cuban Dance Party with Grupo Ashé & DJ Nick tonight at Navya Lounge!
Navya is inside The Rainier Plaza in downtown Seattle at 1333 5TH Ave – between Union & University.
For more information, see:
http://www.myspace.com/grupoashe
or
See you there timberos!
Ashé pa’ ustedes, Pedrito
March 20 tickets available now
Posted by irenemitri on 25 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Events, Music
Hi everyone,
Just a reminder to please purchase tickets in advance for the upcoming event on March 20. Hope to see you all there! Here’s the scoop:
CUBAN MUSIC CONCERT / DANCE PARTY
Who: Charanga Danzon and Grupo Ashe (Concert / Dance Party)
When: Friday, March 20, 2009 (7:30 p.m. / 9:30 p.m.)
Where: Rainier Chapter of the D.A.R.
800 Roy Street (Capitol Hill), Seattle
Please join us for this Spring Party full of live Cuban music. The evening begins with a concert (Charanga Danzon) in the elegant living room of the Rainier Chapter House, followed by dancing to live music (Grupo Ashe) in the upstairs ballroom. Three types of tickets available: Concert only, Dance Party only, or both. Hope to see you at this fabulous venue! All ages are welcome. (A similar event was originally scheduled for December 19 but was postponed due to weather.)
Tickets on sale now
www.brownpapertickets.com/event/56091
www.charangadanzon.com/events
Dancing tonight at Navya Lounge, Friday 2/20
Posted by DJ-T on 20 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Music
Come out for music and dancing at Navya Lounge. One room, but multiple DJ’s alternating throughout the night.
Salsa, Timba, Merengue, Reggaeton
1333 5th Avenue, Seattle
(Second level inside the Rainier Square at the corner of 5th & University in downtown Seattle)
Starts 10pm,
Entrance: $5 if you say you know Thomas or Nick (otherwise $10).
Rueda de Casino Moves I Learned in Atlanta & Miami
Posted by Maritza on 17 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Practice
Hi Peeps, I had a chance to go and learn some really cool moves while I was away two weeks ago. Here are the names:
In Atlanta, I went to Julian Mejia’s rueda de casino class and I learned: Talita and Panteon. I have these moves on a video so I am still working on breaking it down. I also learned, but still need some practice, a step called control. Julian might be teaching that one at the San Francisco festival.
In Miami, I went to Salsa Racing Studio’s rueda de casino class. My instructor was a guy name Julio. He was AWESOME! All done in Spanish. In one night, I learned a bunch of moves, the one I cannot wait to teach is Kentoqui a lo Cubano. The others are Rumbero, La Cunada, and a couple of others I don’t remember the names. BUT, I have them on video, so I will break them down.
As some of you might have already known, my car died (too much wear & tear and the 3rd cylinder has lost compression) and I am now bus-dependant. I am very grateful to Jay Williams from Tacoma, who comes to pick me up when he can. (THANK YOU, JAY!!) That said, I cannot guarentee I will make it to Sunday practice as often I would like.
So I have this idea, if anyone would be interested in coming to Federal Way one Saturday afternoon and we can have a little rueda lab session to help me break down the moves and just dance, I would so appreciate it. After San Francisco, I know I will have even more to teach and share. Can we make an event around all this learning?—Maritza
Rueda Performers Needed for College Event at Pierce College in Lakewood
Posted by Maritza on 17 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Events, Social
Hi Peeps!
As some of you might already know, when I am not dancing, I am working at a community college doing social justice training with students. My program is going to have an “End Of The Year” Banquet, where there will be food, award recognitions, entertainment, music, and student keynote speakers. My students would like to have our rueda group perform a rueda demonstration with one song for this event. So here are the details:
Multicultural Leadership Institute End of the Year Banquet, Friday, May 29, 2009, from 7-9pm in the Pierce College Fort Steilacoom Health Education Center Gym
Adress: 9401 Farwest Drive SW, Lakewood, WA 98498
This is our 5th Year Anniversary so it is a big deal. I remember talking to Ofer and Andre about starting up a coed performance group. This might be a great way to debut the coed group. My hope is that we can have at least 4 pairs of follows and leads. Please let me know if you can do this by calling me or e-mailing me at (206)300-4523 or mbaida@pierce.ctc.edu
Thanks everyone and if anyone is going to San Francisco, I will see you there this weekend!! I’m flying out Thursday night. –Maritza
Joe Cuba: Father of NY Boogaloo Dies
Posted by eddiea24 on 17 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Music
Joe Cuba: Father of NY Boogaloo Dies
Tuesday February 17, 2009
Joe Cuba, one of the seminal Nuyorican artists of the 1960s/1970s, died Sunday, Feb. 15 in New York from a persistent staph bacteria infection that Cuba contracted while being treated for asthma a few years ago. He was 78.Gilberto Calderon was born in New York in 1931 to Puerto Rican parents, learning to play conga when he was in high school. He formed the Jose Calderon Sextet in the early 1950s; in 1954 his agent suggested he change his name to Joe Cuba and the Joe Cuba Sextet was born.
The Joe Cuba Sextet was different in several ways: it was a small group in a time when salsa was more often played by larger orchestras, it used the vibraphone where other groups were leading with brass and the music was a fusion of Afro-Caribbean rhythms and popular contemporary genres and styles.
As boogaloo became popular – music that is a mixture of mambo, son montuno and the R&B and soul coming out of Motown and sung primarily in English – Cuba had his first big crossover hit in 1965 with “El Pito” (I Never Go Back To Georgia) while in 1967 “Bang, Bang”, co-written by the sextet’s vocalist Jimmy Sabater, beame the hit song that ushered in the Boogaloo Era.
Joe Cuba continued touring and performing until recently. He was inducted into the International Latin Music Hall of Fame in 1999 and in 2004 was the Grand Marshall of New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade.
Luckily for the many Joe Cuba fans, Joe Cuba Sextet albums recorded for Fania have recently been rereleased by EMusica so that, while we’ve lost a treasured artist, his music remains with us.
Reminder: Dance shoes only at Sonny Newman’s
Posted by Kyra on 17 Feb 2009 | Tagged as: Practice
Hi all,
I think we’re all appreciating Sonny’s wonderful space this winter–the best winter on record for Seattle ruedaphiles, in my opinion.
I just want to put a general reminder–to you and your friends and neighbors. Please remember to wear dance shoes (clean, nonmarking, that are never worn outdoors) for our Sunday practices. If you forget to bring them, please wear socks rather than street shoes, even “just this once.” This is important to Sonny and his business, and it’s important to us so that we can return to this space again and again. Epa!
Thanks!
Kyra (the detail-oriented)