Published on 28th May 2008

Intermediate Salsa (East Side)

  • writen by: Sarah Calhoun
  • last edited: 05 September 2008 at 11:58am

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Sundays
  from 7-8:15pm
Will NOT Occur On...
Sun, 22 June 2008
Occurs...
Sun, 08 June 2008
  through
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 7:00 - 8:15 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.

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.

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 some 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 Floor

    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 Monty’s) 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 Tubb’s Taco Palace).
You will see a large sand-colored building (Kennedy Place).
Turn right into the parking lot (next to Milio’s) - you are there!
The entrance to PilateSpa is located on the parking lot side of the building near Good N Loud Music.

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Pre-registration is required. Contact the Instructor to reserve space in this class.

This class is intended for intermediate dancers and will move at an appropriate pace.

Class Notes

What fun this first month has been!

We started off with some work on technique–initiating motion with the ribs, getting full weight changes, and using the body (not the biceps) to move our arms.

From there, we moved on to work on some over-the-shoulder and penduluum dips. Along with those, the leads worked on some moves that happen under their point of contact (i.e. the “Rottblatt” move…duck and spin).

For the past few weeks, though, we’ve been working on a a “double lock” sequence. It involves multiple cross-body leads and rotations around our partners…but without letting go of each other!

Along with the Double Lock, we’ve also been working on some free spins for the follows. Leads have specifically been working on finding the “sweet spot” to initiate this spin for the follow: belly-button height, a slight flick, and then opening their hands to allow the follows hand to slide off.

None of these moves will work properly without a good lead-follow connection. This has been causing us to work a lot on creating hooks and walls that are energetic, but not forceful.

Nice job, everyone!


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