- UWCE Beginning Latin/Salsa Dance
- begins Wed, 15 September (4:30-6pm)
- Attend USA Dance-Madison First Dance
- Sat, 11 September
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Event Dates
from 4-5pm
Occurs...
through
Sun, 08 February 2009
Instructor: Sarah Calhoun
Enrollment: limited to interested members of the Intermediate Salsa class
Tuition: $35/person (for all four sessions)
Four Weeks of 60-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 4:00 – 5:00 pm, beginning 18 January 2009 and running until 8 February 2009, for a total of four sessions.
In this 60-minute class meeting for a total of four sessions, we will discover how to produce many of the common dance moves you see at nightclubs where people dance Salsa.
We will be working with the Miami or Cubano style of Salsa, featuring many turns and spins for both the leads and the follows. Building on a simple set of common moves, we will continue 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.
We will be working on Salsa fundamentals–timing, basic moves, Cuban motion, and just feeling comfortable on the floor with a partner. This class will help reinforce the moves we’re concurrently learning in the Intermediate Salsa class, and work them into your own dance vocabulary.
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 designed for dancers who have had limited experience with Salsa, and will move at an appropriate pace. Enroll to improve your sense of partner connection and refine your body action and basics…and learn some fun new moves!
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.
Class Notes
In our first class, we worked on drawing circles. Raising one hand up, and leaving one hand down produces various moves coming out of a cuddle (hand across the face) and a hammerlock (hand away from the face).
We all worked on both our lead and follow skills, driving home the point that both parts are *skills* that need to be practiced and refined, and that we should not take our partner for granted.
We also worked some more on Cuban motion: feet turned out, forward weighted, toes dug in, and bending and straightening our knees straight in front of us.
And then there was some time for play…which really is the most important part of dancing!
Comments
Posted on: Monday, 02 February 2009 at 8:35am
Hi Sarah – Thanks for the class notes!
Do you think you could post the steps for the warm up routine – you know the one with the arm movements combined with squats? I really want to learn that. Thanks and looking forward to next week. Michele