Re: 6/8 time latin beats-what type of dance step for?

3 beat measures are almost everywhere.  Punto is another 3 beat
campesino music native to Cuba.

I followed a Cuban group around South Ontario one summer lately
(called "Quinteto de la Trova").  The tres player (a.k.a. El Pinto)
was once receptive to requests... so I asked for some campesina music.

I threw out a song I'd heard by Celina Gonzalez, "Yo soy El Punto
Cubano".  He misunderstood and started playing some 3 beat punto
music, with bongo and guitar accompanying... to my confusion and then
delight.

Celina sings some of that style too, you may have heard "Orquiedea de
la Montana" on the "Queen of Cuban Folk" CD.

( It only confuses when there are sons that extol the guanguanco,
salsas that proclaim the yambu, guarachas that praise the punto, etc.
etc. )

Steps: IMO the archaic styles of music before commercialization, I
think the steps are defined by whoever is the best dancer locally:
you'll rarely find a single standard.  I once saw a documented dance
for "La Bamba", but it's the steps they danced in one particular
village, to one particular song!

Changui might be an exception among the archaic dances in that there's
sort of a standard... but not much more than just shuffling on the
3-4-1.  Con sabor, of course, but it's the sabor that makes it, not
the steps!

my 2 cents...