Saída Lateral

ConteoSamba de Gafieira 2/4 basic timing — the side step initiates on the bar's first beat and the weight settles across the following beats; one lateral exit per basic. This is lateral travel phrased across the samba bar, not an On1/On2 salsa break step.

Tiempo musicalDanced to the samba/choro repertoire of the gafieira tradition in 2/4. Comfortable across moderate gafieira tempos (~100-130 bpm); faster sambas compress the lateral settle and demand a more compact side step. Not phrased to salsa tempos or break-step timing.

• Samba de Gafieira basic step (passo básico)
• Stable close-hold frame and embrace
• Lateral weight transfer with a level torso (knee-driven pulse)

• ✕Stepping on the same foot as the partner instead of mirroring (leader left / follower right), jamming the couple's feet.
• ✕Letting the embrace and frame collapse so the lateral lead is lost and the follower stalls.
• ✕Adding a vertical bounce of the torso; the gafieira pulse lives in the knees, not in a bobbing chest.
• ✕Under-committing the weight to the side so the couple never actually opens laterally.
• ✕Treating it as a salsa break step on a single beat rather than lateral travel phrased across the samba bar.

• ≠Generic 'saída' — any exit or opening from the gafieira basic; the Saída Lateral is one specific lateral version among several saídas.
• ≠International (ballroom) Samba 'Side Basic' / lateral basic — a different codified figure in a separate syllabus, not the gafieira saída.
• ≠Salsa cross-body lead — a slot exchange in a different dance; a 'lateral exit' is not its equivalent.
• ≠'Passo lateral' / 'paso lateral' — denotes side footwork generally, not this gafieira figure by name.

• Rio de Janeiro / Brazilian gafieira halls

  Saída Lateral

  canonical Portuguese name; saída = 'exit', the couple's lateral opening from the basic

• Samba de Gafieira taught abroad (Europe, North America)

  Saída Lateral

  the Portuguese term is retained wherever gafieira is taught; no distinct translated local name