Dance Academy

Joel Salsa NY

North America / USA / New York

Joel Salsa NY is a Latin dance school based in New York City, that offers different levels of Salsa On2 classes – Beginner, Intermediate, & Advanced. All of their dance instructors are professional and the Salsa group classes are taught not only with the numbers, but Joel Salsa NY goes deeper into the Salsa music to give you a better understanding of how to feel the rhythm and interpret it into your steps and partner work.

Owners and founders of Joel Salsa NY are Joel Dominguez & Maria Palmieri, They are the most sought after NYC Salsa instructors known for their unique style of dancing and teaching methods. They are known world wide as experts in musicality, technique, leading & following and helping dancers around the world reach their professional dance goals.

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Salsa Classes

Salsa Bootcamp – 8-Weeks Beginner Course (Level 1 & 2)

Tuesday or Thursday

The Salsa Absolute Beginner Bootcamp is for the student with little to no experience of Salsa and wants to learn the Fundamentals, Salsa Turn Patterns, Musicality and more. The course is 8-weeks, once per week, and is split into 2 parts/levels. It’s the perfect course to get you ready for the dance floor.

Salsa – Shines & Turn Techniques (Level 3)

Monday & Wednesday @ 6:30pm

Salsa Level 3 is for the student who is very comfortable with the tools, timing and turn patterns from the Bootcamp course or who has at least 4 months dancing Salsa On2 style. In this level of Salsa, you should have a good foundation and understanding of Salsa timing, know how to lead or follow inside and outside turns and variations of these turns.

Salsa – Styling & Turn Patterns (Level 4)

Monday @ 7:30pm

This class is the highest level in Salsa On2 and is designed for the Intermediate/Adv level student, instructor or performer who wants to master their tools and techniques and to understand what it takes to be fluid on the dance floor.

For more information go to https://joelsalsa.com

Del Campo Dance Studio

North America / USA /  California

Del Campo Dance Studio is proud to be the longest running studio for Salsa dance instruction in the Sacramento area. With a well-rounded program focused on Salsa dancing they have seen countless students dance their way into confidence. Their dance community is welcoming and lively. You’ll find an energy and style that brings life to the dance floor in the group classes, workshops and at the outside weekly venues. Beginners are welcome and encouraged to join. Offering beginner classes on the dance floor, and in studio (no partner needed).

Now is your time to dance!

Salsa is a Latin style of dance that is primarily danced with a partner. The music is energetic and lively with percussions, horns and a distinct latin beat that has you moving in your seat. The dance is made of quick footwork, spins, patterns and a passionate show of body movement in relationship to the music-styling known as cuban motion or latin hip action.

Salsa is an excellent dance for inexperienced dancers to get their dancing feet moving and a favorite style for those who dance with a passionate soul.

Del Campo Dance Studio - Dancers — Del Campo Dance Studio – Dancers

Private lessons

Private lessons are available for individual students or for couples by appointment.

Private sessions are an excellent way for inexperienced dancers to become familiar with the dance style(s) they are most interested in, and a quick way to feel comfortable on the dance floor. Private lessons are also perfect for the more experienced dancer to quickly advance their dancing skills.

Group Classes

Group classes are an important part of the Salsa Dance program. Salsa Dance offers group classes for beginners, and intermediate classes for those who desire to continue learning and keep in-step with their dance training. All of the classes accommodate leaders and followers with attention to steps, partner techniques, rhythm with a touch of style. No partner needed! All you have to do is show up and have fun.

For more information about other dance classes, visit https://www.delcampodance.com/home . Private Lessons

San Tropez Dance School

North America / USA

Taking dance lessons is a most pleasant experience at The Dance Center. The teaching team is currently made of several dedicated dance instructors. To them, being a teacher means more than just making you a good dancer. It means making your learning experience fun, stimulating and motivating.

Not just anybody can be a Dance Center teacher. The instructors are chosen not just for their dancing prowess, but also for their personality and teaching skills. They train continuously to acquire the most efficient teaching methods and the latest dance moves.

Although each of them has specific strengths and specialties, all of the Dance Center teachers are qualified to teach more than a dozen different dance styles, from Salsa to Swing, and from Cha-cha to Argentine Tango.

San Tropez Dance School - Social — San Tropez Dance School – Social

Teamwork is very important for the Dance Center instructors. They all work with the same teaching system, so when you take a lesson with any of them you will benefit from their collective experience and from the diversity of their personalities.

The instructors come from many different parts of the world and their experience is as diverse as their talent. All of them have extensive dance backgrounds and some of them have experience coaching sports, teaching music and even aerobics.

Lessons are provided in a variety of languages including English, French and Spanish.

Don’t miss everything San Tropez has to offer every week. And for more information about upcoming events, visit http://www.latindance.net

Ladies Styling Choreography Tuesdays – 8pm Hip Hop Choreography Thursday – 7pm Mens Styling Choreo Tuesday – 7pm Salsa – Bachata Choreo every Wednesday -7pm Kizomba Choreography Fridays – 8pm.

The Son Rumbero Academy: E-Learning in virtual classrooms reached the world of dance

Latin America / Venezuela / Caracas

The Son Rumbero Academy, in step with technological advances, now opens a virtual classroom that will allow you to access an interesting range of online courses open to all through distance education processes with invited international instructors.

The teaching and learning processes are led hand in hand by education professionals, people who handle various tools and techniques that allow reaching the objectives of generalized instruction, now, the means and the contexts that affect this process are in the same way. of great importance to meet the aforementioned goals, hence the institutions invest so much time in physical improvements for the setting of the spaces destined to unite these processes.

It is not new to speak that technological means have invaded all areas of knowledge, there is no longer an area or content that is not already in process or in the process of being taught through the internet, hence the term distance learning. It is not something that escapes from the normality of our day to day.

Professor José Manuel Pérez, director of the Son Rumbero Academy with a great career in the field of salsa and education professional in the area of computer science, is carrying out a process of teaching dance through virtual means, in this case, using the so famous virtual classrooms, where it focuses on asynchronous and asynchronous communication processes by which, the didactic interaction with the students predominates as the elementary basis of teaching, the student becomes the main center of self-information managing their learning through tutors and classmates from the open classroom for the specific dance specialty, is learning to dance by learning, it is doing it between appropriate means and environments.

Aula Virtual - Son Rumbero Academy — Aula Virtual – Son Rumbero Academy

The ways and methods of how to educate in the world of dance have always been maintained, in fact many people look for different alternatives given the circumstances of their tasks, work, home, occupations, in itself, an endless number of causes motivate the desertion when it comes to complying with schedules and routines in dance halls or gyms…

How many do not avoid entering this face-to-face modality due to little free time or the long time it takes to travel to a location, hence new ideas arise that facilitate access to world of dance from any corner of the world and at the time you want, and who would not like to adjust their classes to the hours and days they prefer, even more so if they can change them weekly according to their availability.

The Son Rumbero Academy project is not an original project, E-Learning and virtual classrooms have been in the educational world for several years, only that for the context of dance it was present in tutorial videos, a positive element but more of the same circle for some:

With a virtual classroom, the teaching process is extended, it not only depends on what the student has seen and practiced, in this we obtain constant supervision of the process, teachers dedicated to nourishing theoretical information and practicing something extremely important when understanding music and shaping it in dance it is about taking evaluations, participating in forums or conversations with several students in the same classroom, surveys, tutorial videos, correction process by videos sent to the teacher, easy access to multimedia elements…

from songs to explanatory audios, a world full of of elements that support to a greater degree the fact of learning from any dance discipline, not to mention seminars or professional courses, certifications of improvements in methodological processes in teaching for teachers and instructors, going from evaluation processes for dance competitions to complete percussion courses, a whole world of knowledge and elements given to the me You work in dance and now in music.

For this month of April, the project will begin with 3 high-impact courses, one on Cuban folklore dictated by Mr. Damian Ballester, a certification for instructors based on planning, evaluation and methodological processes of teaching by Professor José Manuel Pérez , closing with a theoretical-practical seminar on the complex of the rumba soon dictated by a professional in this area, director of one of the largest Cuban groups and participate in endless documentaries oriented to the complex of the rumba, a surprise that They will give us soon.

In the same way, they are betting on a new teaching method for beginners, those who perhaps want more privacy when starting steps in the world of salsa or another genre, new media that can contribute to the development of the diffusion of salsa in the world.

The invitation is now open for you to follow the accounts of the son rumbero academy on Instagram and Facebook at @sonrumbero, by the numbers of its offices in Colombia +573022582306, Venezuela +584122110104, Chile and soon in Peru and Argentina.

Fundación Cultural Madera 15 where Brotherhood, Sports, Dance and Salsa go Hand in Hand

By the end of the 70’s and beginning of the 80’s a group of young people from different parts of the country gathered by chance in the same sector 4 de las Mercedes in La Victoria, Aragua State, began to listen to the new genre of the time, the popular “Salsa”.

Fundación Cultural Madera 15 donde la Hermandad, el Deporte, la Danza y la Salsa van de la Mano

Each one with different tastes but without leaving the genre, they felt the desire to imitate the Venezuelan and international bands they knew through the Lps, so every weekend they organized themselves to play their instruments with musicians already studied and the guataqueros in an empirical way.

These meetings became more and more frequent and due to the need of an acquaintance of the zone to have a salsa group they decided to form the first salsa group of the sector called “El Quinto Sonero”, then years later with many of the members of the previous group they formed the group “Juancito y su Son” and years later the “Conjunto Sabor”.

It is worth mentioning that the rehearsals of the different groups took place in the homes of some of the members, playing songs by Ray Barreto; Eddie Palmieri; Dimensión Latina; Grupo Mango; Trabuco Venezolano Grupo Libre and of course Grupo Madera, among others.

By the end of the 80’s this same group of young people always supported by their families decided to formalize all the events that took place during the year, thus creating the “Madera 15 Foundation” unifying culture, sports, art and dance all in what was once a “Little Square” and over the years became a court, which would become its main location.

Its name is due to the admiration that everyone felt for Grupo Madera and product of its unexpected accident in which most of its members lost their lives on August 15, 1980.

For this reason the affection and the interpretation of many of their songs and the attendance to their concerts. Once the tragedy occurred, the passion for the Caracas group grew, specifically in the Marín neighborhood of San Agustín del Sur, which was invited to the inauguration of the Cancha in 1989, an invitation that was accepted and it was possible to enjoy three days of Afro-Caribbean songs and dances among neighbors and people close to the area.

From then on, cultural, recreational and sporting activities are carried out and one of the most important meetings is organized every year on December 31st, where the Guataca de Fin de Año is held, which began as an informal meeting of these young people every year-end, specifically on the 31st of the year, and continued with a soup on January 1st, welcoming the new year.

Currently by decree of the Mayor of the Municipality of Ribas in La Victoria Aragua State, specifically by Mayor Juan Carlos “Jaimito” Sanchez in his 1st term in 2012, the Municipal Day of Salsa is celebrated, and are invited to cultors and musicians from different parts of the country to participate in this special date with all attendees, which enjoy a unique day full of much feeling.

For years, all kinds of musicians, orchestras, groups and salsa characters that have exalted the salsa culture, as well as characters of the gaita and folklore, have passed through the festival.

Today, the tradition of the Guataca is still maintained, paying tribute to the life of its famous characters and remembering those who left for another plane and those who unfortunately emigrated.

Hand in hand with the music was also formed the dance group of the area called in its beginnings “Los Gurrugurru” which performed nationalist dances and sang aguinaldos and parranda every Christmas. Today there is still a dance group called “Danzas Tricolor” also dancing all the national folkloric dances.

Through both groups passed the great majority of the young people of the sector and after generations their children and now grandchildren, all under the direction of Griseida and Mileyda Batidas.

It is important to highlight some emblematic names of the foundation among them stand out:

Benilde (RIP), Mercedes (RIP), Ligia (RIP), Aminta (RIP), Alicia (RIP), Carmen (RIP), , Williams (RIP), Santana (RIP), Agustín (RIP), Neptali (RIP), Mileyda (RIP), Ángel Miguel (RIP), Amalia, Dinora, Raquel, Adela, Eugenia, Ángel, Jaime, Nelly, Entre otros.

Participating Families:

Los Bauter, Los Yanes, Los Ascanio, Los Bastidas Salazar, Los Momplasiert, Los Power, Los Anzolar, Los Escalona, Los Guevara and many more.

Memorable sites

La Placita, La Cancha, La Matica de Amalia, La Esquina de los Bauter, and El Terreno.

There the traces of all those who in their time gave their hearts for the good of the most rumbustious sector of La Victoria were captured.

This message goes to them:

MADERA 15 we are all and even those who left.

Collaboration and Main Source:

Lcda. Shinaury Rojas / Publicist for Salsa Escrita

Photographer Nelson Bauter

Actividad con el Septeto Caribe y Nelson Bauter en La Fundación Cultural Madera 15

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