How to Salsa Dance Blog

Add another level to your relationship and learn how to dance together. One of the most difficult things that you can do together is a learn a dance from scratch.Winning dancer and choreographer Cal Pozo specially designed this Partner Dancing 101 series so that he could share their exercise secrets.Simple, easy-to-follow instructions that slowly build once you’ve mastered the most basic Latin steps. In the DVD you will learn Salsa and Samba.Latin dance moves provide a great workout for building cardio–plus your work those hips.You’ll learn these dances relatively quickly and with confidence. Salsa and Samba, teaches you all the essential elements of partnered dances: what your feet need to do, where your feet need to go, how to lead and follow any partner, how to find and stay on the beat, and how to link basic steps into dance routines you’ll enjoy doing and others will enjoy watching you do.

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Here is one of the first episodes of us teaching you how to dance salsa.

http://addicted2salsa.com/2005/12/04/salsa-dance-4-slick-salsa-combo-1/

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Looking to start Salsa dancing? In this free dance lesson, learn how to do copa salsa steps with professional salsa dancers.

Expert: Eddie Santos
Contact: www.dflatindance.com
Bio: Eddie Santos and Maria Ivanova are artistic directors and founders of “Drugaya Forma” Dance Team. The “Duo” has been teaching and performing together since 2003.
Filmmaker: joseph wilkins

Duration : 0:1:30

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I don’t have a boyfriend now, but I’m just curious about this. I’ve always been interested in taking salsa lessons, but most guys have no interest in joining the girlfriend for something like that! So if you have a significant other that has no interest in salsa dancing, is it innapropriate to take lessons and go to clubs without him? As much as I want to learn the salsa, I try to put the shoe on the other foot: if I had a boyfriend that was dancing in a VERY sexy and sensual way with other women, I’m sure it would make me uncomfortable! From the little I’ve seen on TV (of people dancing salsa), it looks extremely sexual. Is there a way to dance the salsa without being disrespectful to the significant other? Or do they just have "to get over it"??!!

I don’t see a problem. My wife and I salsa and when we go out together we dance with different people. And since we often live apart, we go dancing alone or with friends frequently. There is little reason to be jealous if it is just dancing (and you can tell when its not). Salsa is SENSUAL not SEXUAL. I should add, to learn to dance–salsa and other stuff–you need to dance with different partners. Try going with a group of friends or make friends at a class and you can dance with other people and not feel creepy.

I’m praticing Salsa dance right now, but every time I dance, I often accidently kneed guys right in the groin. It happen three times this week now. Now no one want to dance with me because fear of me hurting their familly jewel..

So how can I avoid kneeing guy right in the groin while doing Salsa dance?

When you move forward you should have your hip lead you forward. Then it kinda rolls down to your foot. If you have to knee lead you that’s what would likely to happen.

If you bump his groin with your hip instead he’ll be sooo happy and they’d wanna dance with you again.

VENDETTA REVOLUTION

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http://www.WatchMojo.com Video: Learn how to dance salsa – Part 3

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Master any dance in minutes with the first major dance instructional book/DVD from America’s bestselling dance instructor Cal Pozo, director of the bestselling “Dancing with the Stars-Cardio Dance” DVD and creator of the multi-platinum award-winning “Learn to Dance in Minutes” series, has taught more than three million people how to dance with his patented “Reverse View” method. Over the years, thousands of his fans have asked if he also had a dance instructional book. Here is the package they’ve been looking for: an easy-to-follow, fun-to-watch book and DVD combination that gives the reader multiple angles and methods from which to learn. In addition to basic step patterns and rhythms, you’ll learn: -Smooth dances like the classic foxtrot, waltz, two-step, and tango-American rhythm dances like the Lindy and the hustle-Latin dances like the salsa, mambo, chacha, rumba, and merengue-Line dances like the Electric Slide, the Macarena, the Tush Push, and the Boot Scooting Boogie From the foxtrot to the Lindy hop, the merengue to the Macarena, you’ll learn how to identify each style of dance so that you’ll be prepared for any type of dance party. Whether you’re looking to wow the relatives at your wedding, impress your boss at the holiday party, or get a spot on “So You think You Can Dance?,” “Let’s Dance Weddings and Parties” will have you moving and grooving, turning and twirling, and hopping and bopping with the best.

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240 pages published: 2003 About the Book Move with grace and feel confident on the dance floorstep by step! Social Dance: Steps to Success will teach you all the moves for eight popular dance styles: Swing Cha-cha Foxtrot Polka Waltz Rumba Tango Salsa/mambo Each step in the progression teaches you a new skill, then builds on those skills to develop creative dance routines. The first few steps provide a solid foundation of the basics to help you understand alignment, musical structure, and footwork synchronization with the music. As you progress, you will also learn how to lead and follow, move from one dance position to another, combine dance variations into sequences, and much more. Every step also explains why the concept or skill is important, identifies the keys to correct technique, helps you avoid common errors, and explains how to practice each skill. Written by master teacher and dancer Judy Patterson Wright, this book is part of the Steps to Success Seriesthe most extensively researched and carefully developed set of sport skill instruction books ever published. Includes music CD! To help you practice, a compact disc is included that provides 19 tracks for training and practice. The first 8 are training examples (some with voice overs) for identifying the beat, measures, and highlighting general characteristics of selected social dance music. Tracks 9 through 19 include instrumental practice music (average 2 minutes each) for all 8 dances covered in the book. About the Author Judy Patterson Wright, PhD, is an accomplished dancer who has taught social dance at the junior high, high school, and college levels since 1971. Dr. Wright’s dance experience includes a wide variety of styles: ballroom and social dance, tap dance, jazz, modern dance, ballet, folk dance, square dance, country western dance, line dance, and aerobic dancercise. She has been recognized as one of the Outstanding Young Women of America (1982) and repeatedly as an Excellent Teacher at the

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Not excellently, but well enough not to make a total fool out of myself at a party I’ll be attending in a copule of months. Can’t afford lessons (and frankly I don’t think I’ll have enough time to attend classes regularly). What websites do you recommend to help me learn?
Any other recommendations?
Azuca’! jeje

But umm.. any website where I can gather some tips?
The sarcasm isn’t helping, you know…
I can practice, but I’d appreciate a website as reference.

I don’t know what level you are on. But if you go to YouTube and type in "salsa lessons", you will find some clips for basic stuff. But ignore one instructor named Marlon Silva. That guy is not doing salsa. It will only mislead you.

If you already know the basic, then I suggest you to type in the following things

1. Super Mario Salsa

2. Milton Cobo

3. Sarai salsa

4. Magna jareau

5. Francisco Vasquez

6. NYC Salsa Congress

7. Chicago Salsa congress

That’s what I can think of so far….

But remember…you can always find something on YouTube.com