Today’s salsa dance is characterized as a mixture of African, Caribbean, and European styles, dance, and musical elements. Salsa, a “freestyle” dance, is improvised without being tied to routine movements.
Salsa is not one of those dances that require full use of the dance floor, such as foxtrot or samba. Salsa dance is considered within the scope of Latin dances. The most well-known of other Latin dances are Merengue, Cha Cha, Bachata, Mambo, Samba, and Rumba.