How to Salsa Dance Blog

I dont have a lot of experience dancing salsa so I want to get better. Any tips.videos,articles….anything!!

There are lots of videos that you can buy covering a variety of different Salsa Dance styles such as New York Style, LA Style, Cubans Style. But in my opinion the best way to actually improve is to dance with a partner and take lessons from an instructor. If you search for salsa videos on the internet you’ll find tons. You might also try searching for salsa dance videos at YouTube.

I personally think it’s hard to learn from videos unless you already have the basics down well. The basics are better learnt from an instructor, so you should look for salsa lessons in your area on-line or maybe check if any of the local clubs offer classes.

The first step in dancing is to learn basics steps and turns. Once you have them down it’s relatively easy to add new turn patterns. What differentiates a really good dancer is the ability to reflect in their dancing what is happening in the music. Normally there are parts of a song more suited to dancing in closed position, others that are good for turn patterns and others that are good for shines.

That brings us to the second thing, which is really almost the first thing: listen to the music non-stop! To get comfortable with the ryhthm and get past issues of finding the beat. People who only hear salsa during class time have a much harder time finding the beat that people who listen to the music on their free time as well.

But these are things you worry about later. For now try to find an instructor in your area and someone from the class who would also like to practice during free time. It’s so easy to forget from one week to the next what you learned in class. But if you practice it on your own and have to remember it yourself without the instructor there to remind you how it goes, you will find that you learn much faster. When you get to class the next week you won’t need to repeat from the week before. You’ll be ready to start with something new right away.

Learn how to do the basic men’s small side step for salsa dancing in this free instructional Latin dance lesson for beginners on video.

Expert: Chirs Hemmer and Kelly Anne
Contact: www.56Dance.com
Bio: Chris Hemmer has achieved Gold Level Certification in 15 different dances.
Filmmaker: Hiu Yau

Duration : 0:1:30

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Looking to start Salsa dancing? In this free dance lesson, learn how to do 180 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 : 0:1:32

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its not hard unless you watch your feet. in other words when you dance do not look down at your feet. for then and only then will get even more nervous thinking man i am not doing this right. so look up follow your partner and the listen to the beat of the music

Shows how to dance the merengue. Shows several steps and shows the basic body action.

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Here you go a video clip of Latin / Zumba moves I use in my Zumba class that I did on my cable fitness show. www.pauleugene.com

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I have a major crush on someone I dance with. We chat and dance together. this evening this person gave me her number and said if I wanted to go to another club and wanted a friendly face to see to call her.

Now I really like this person- trouble is a dance club is difficult to pick up signals as everyone is friendly and really nice to each other.

Am I reading to much into the fact that she has given me her number? I am worried that if I call her to ask her out that I could muck up things and miss out on dancing in the future because she could feel akward?

Any thoughts?!

I would say that isn’t a big sign because in the salsa community, it is seen as a big social community – not a big dating community. Where I am from, you go salsa dancing to have fun and know that it is not a "meat market" so to speak. So yes – it can be hard to know if someone is interested.

If you want to see if she’s interested, call her up, see if she’s going out and then after you see her dancing, ask if you could call her for coffee. If she says yes – then you can go from there. If she says "no, let’s just stick to dancing" then say "ok" and move on.

I Like To Salsa When I’m Feelin’ Hot….Hot…..Hot!

http://www.SalsaDanceUnderground.com Jay Rocamontes and Elizabeth Stewart from Salsa Dance Underground perform during the second act of the show “Woman’s Intuition.” Jay is “cheating” on Elizabeth and she gets mad… they burst out into a sensual but passionate salsa, cha cha cha, lyrical dance that embodies the mood of the play.

Duration : 0:2:18

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