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Sun, 03 August 2008
Instructor: Sarah Calhoun
Enrollment: limit 20 (this is a group class)
Tuition: $100/person (for all eight sessions)
Eight Weeks of 75-Minute Group Classes
Offered by: Art of Dance Ballroom Dance School
Pre-registration is required. Contact the Instructor to reserve space in this class, regardless of whether you have already been taking classes or Private Lessons with this instructor.
You do not need to enroll with a partner. Expect frequent partner changes and numerous group activities and exercises.
This Group Class will meet each Sunday from 5:45 – 7:00 pm, beginning 8 June 2008 and running until 3 August 2008, for a total of eight sessions. There will be no class on Sunday, 22 June.
In this 75-minute class meeting for a total of eight sessions, we will discover how to produce many of the common dance moves you see at nightclubs where people dance Salsa. Many people begin going to Salsa clubs and using their new skills after only two or three sessions! Yes, it is possible to learn enough about Salsa dancing to have a lot of fun very quickly.
We will cover the Miami or Cubano style of Salsa, featuring many turns and spins for both the leads and the follows. We will use a simple set of common moves to explore good lead and follow connections, inventiveness, and fluidity in Salsa dancing.
The class will emphasize creating a solid constant connection between the lead and follow and how to use that connection throughout the entire dance and in every move that we create! We will use a simple set of common moves to explore good lead and follow connections, inventiveness, and fluidity in Salsa dancing.
Improve your own balance and learn to recognize how each partner influences the balance of the other. Develop an understanding of how you move your own body and how those movements are felt and interpreted by your partner. (Applies to leads and follows alike.) Build the fundamentals for creating good partner connections and for leading and following well. Exercise those fundamentals to invent your own moves!
This class is intended for people new to partner dancing or new to Salsa dancing and will move at an appropriate pace. Experienced dancers, enroll to improve your sense of partner connection and to refine your body action and basics!
You do not need to enroll with a partner. Expect frequent partner changes and numerous group activities and exercises.
Please, no Street Shoes on the dance floor. Dance shoes, dance sneakers, or stocking feet are all fine.
Pre-registration is required. Contact the Instructor to reserve space in this class.
Held at:
PilateSpa
2045 Atwood Avenue
Suite 107
Madison, WI 53704
(608) 244-0402
( map | website )
PilateSpa is easily accessible (located on Atwood Ave. near the Barrymore and Montys) with plenty of free and well-lighted parking.
PilateSpa is a Pilates and dance studio. They have a floating bamboo floor–approximately 1000 square feet–with plenty of mirrors and ambient lighting. There are two bathrooms and a small sitting/kitchen area in the front of the studio.
From East Washington Ave. (Hwy 151), turn onto South 1st St.
Cross over the train tracks, and then turn left onto Winnebago St.
At the next light, turn right onto Atwood Ave.
Go a block and a half (past Tex Tubbs Taco Palace).
You will see a large sand-colored building (Kennedy Place).
Turn right into the parking lot (next to Milios) – you are there!
The entrance to PilateSpa is located on the parking lot side of the building near Good N Loud Music.
Each instructor at the Art of Dance is independent and sets his or her own prices. See Prices for all available private lesson packages. See Group Classes for all avaialable classes. Lesson packages and group class enrollments are not transferable. Limitations may apply. Please see the FAQ and read the studio's Policies.
Don't panic...you can still dance without shoes! Read our FAQ for more information on footwear.
Class Notes
How much you’ve all learned in a short month! I have been impressed at how willing you all have been to work in the role of both leader and follower…and dance both of them well! Thanks go out again to our guest leads who have been joining the class for the past few weeks.
We started off learning the basics of moving together with a partner on the floor: creating space, filling space, and maintaining space. We also worked on the mechanics of contact: a sticky, but not stuck!, connection, and how to create a point of contact.
We then started with a little dance-geometry…specifically circles. In exploring the concepts of movings hands up and down, we continue to find new ways to crete fun moves with a partner! Cuddles, hammerlocks, sliding door, tunnels, wheels, and pretzels…and the list goes on!
We have also been working with the ideas of cuban motion: settling the hip, sending energy into the floor through the big toe, crunching the stomach, and draaagggging the foot! In this way, our hips aren’t moving in isolation from the rest of our body, but the rest of our body is creating motion in our hips.
We are going to continue to develop all of these concepts as we enter into the second half of the class.
I have posted a few photos from our last class on our new Facebook page. Check them out here: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=24469&l=a4426&id=9449603562
Keep up the good work!
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