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from 6-8pm
from 6-8pm
from 6-8pm
from 6-8pm
from 6-8pm
Instructor: Sarah Calhoun
Enrollment: limit 20 (this is a workshop series)
Tuition: $20 / workshop, or $85 for all five (15% off!)
Five Workshops
Offered by: Art of Dance Ballroom Dance School
This is a Workshop Series. Pre-registration is required. Contact the instructor to reserve space in each workshop, regardless of whether you have already been taking classes or Private Lessons with this instructor.
Please fill out all pertinent Registration Material, and bring it with you on the first day of class.
You do not need to enroll with a partner. Expect frequent partner changes and numerous group activities and exercises.
This Workshop Series will meet for five Sundays from 6:00 – 8:00 pm, beginning 22 March 2009 and running until 17 May 2009, for a total of five sessions. While each Workshop is a discrete class, it is highly recommend that you attend all five sessions.
In these 2-hour long workshops meeting for a total of five sessions, we will discover how to enhance basic Salsa skills in order to give your dancing more flash and excitement on the floor! The Workshops will cover the following topics:
22 March: Cuban motion
5 April: Arm styling (leads and follows)
19 April: Shared weight
3 May: Dips
17 May: TBA
We will cover various aspects of Miami or Cubano style of Salsa in each workshop. We will use a simple set of common moves to explore good lead and follow connections, inventiveness, and fluidity in Salsa dancing. These same principles can be applied to many other Rhythm / Latin dances, including (but not limited to): Cha Cha, Rumba, Swing, Bolero, and Merengue.
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 with some experience partner dancing and Salsa dancing and will move at an appropriate pace. Enroll to improve your sense of partner connection and to refine your body action and basics! There is no such thing as doing “too much work” on the most fundamental parts of dancing!
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.
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