SALSA, TANGO & W.C. SWING
Learn to dance Salsa now!
Learn the hottest club dances in town. We'll teach you all the latest steps in Salsa, Tango & West Coast Swing. Singles & couples welcome. Sign-up now!
6-Week Course - $50 per level
Classes begin March 18, 2010
To enroll in classes, arrive 20 minutes
prior to the start of the first class.
Salsa Special - Bring a NEW guest and get 50% Off your class fee. One discount per person.
Level 1 Thursdays 7-8PM
Level 2 Thursdays 8-9PM
(In a hurry to learn Salsa?
Enroll in two levels of Salsa!)
Salsa, Spanish for sauce, is a fusion of informal dance styles having roots in the US, Cuba and Puerto Rico. Danced to music with Afro-Cuban rhythms, Salsa is fun, flirtatious and sensuous, and incorporates solo steps, body movement & body isolations, spins, and even hand styling, for both men and women.
Our L.A. style Salsa is danced on the "1-beat", in a slot. It is influenced by Hollywood and by the Cha-Cha & Mambo dances. L.A. style introduces fast, turning patterns and intricate dance positions and develops improvisation and social dancing skills.
Argentine Tango has been an evolving dance and musical form and is based heavily on improvisation. While there are patterns or sequences of steps, every movement is led not only in direction but also in speed and quality.
In Argentine Tango, a close embrace is often associated with the more traditional styles, where the dancers' chests are closer to each other than are their hips. Tango dancers feel the music and dance with passion in their hearts.
Jitterbug is a mixture of various types of swing dances, like Lindy Hop, Jive and East Coast Swing. During the early 1900s, the term became associated with swing dancers who danced with little control or knowledge of the dance, and exhibited fast, often bouncy movements on the dance floor.
Jitterbug was also done to early "rock 'n roll" music . In 1957, the Philadelphia based American Bandstand was broadcast on television and featured current "pop" songs, live appearances by musicians, and dancing in the studio. At that time, the most popular fast dance was Jitterbug, which was once described as “a frantic dance only slightly less acrobatic than Lindy”.
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