The cross-body lead is the basic element in the "New York style" and in the "Los Angeles style", dance styles of Latin American salsa. He serves there to the change of side and opening of the companion. Similar movements are found in the chachachá and in the rumba, where they were called fan. The English denomination is oriented to the technique of dance of man: the feet cross - turn of the body - lead the woman.
In the Cuban "casino wheel" style, the corresponding movement is called "tell him no". Common is, therefore, that the woman moves away, with the rotation, of her dance partner and gives her a playful pumpkin. The man ends the movement, however, when he pulls the woman towards himself.
Although the cross-body lead and the "tell it not" correspond stylistically, they are distinguished in the details of the dance. The cross-body lead is danced exactly on one line and the woman, in contrast to "say no," does not move away from the partner.
The cross-body lead, or the "tell it not", is mainly danced in Cuba, Puerto Rico and the United States of America, which is why it has arrived in Europe from there.
On the Latin American mainland, this movement is widely unknown.
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