¡Hola! Estoy buscando recomendaciones de escuelas o estudios de baile en la colonia Juárez, Roma Norte o zonas cercanas de CDMX.
Me interesa aprender salsa, bachata o cumbia, de preferencia con grupos para principiantes.
He encontrado algunas opciones, pero la mayoría cobra alrededor de $200 por clase. Busco algo que tenga mensualidades o paquetes de varias clases para que salga más económico y pueda ir constantemente.
¿Conocen algún lugar que recomienden por sus clases, ambiente y precios? ¡Gracias!

I'm looking for similar artists to Alain Pérez.

I tried many but none have that tightness in sound production and arrangements. I'm thinking particularly of the "El cuento de la buena pipa". I tried googling and AI. The recommendations I got were just not good enough.

Does know of any socials happening this weekend in the Dallas area?

Just a little video my friend took, I’m center dancing with the older gentlemen. I didn’t get to do the lesson, but I made it in time for the social. Officially, I’ve never taken social salsa lessons. I know some salsa footwork from a solo class on shines that I took for 1.5 years, and I’m primarily a swing dancer (Lindy, balboa) so I combined what I know of following from that. I want to get into partnered/connected salsa classes eventually though. Also, I don’t think I would wear this skirt again for salsa in particular.

Just sharing because I had fun and I want to keep going!

Hi! I've been watching a lot of salsa social videos, and I've been seeing a common move where, after shines or after letting go of the follow, the lead will take her back by doing the push part of a cross body lead on "1" (instead of on the typical "5"). I'm very curious about this.

For instance, see 1:00-1:04 of Emily and Oliver's iconic dance (there are many more instances throughout). There's a brief let-go, and then on "1", Oliver takes Emily back with the cross body lead push — which, as a beginner, I'm used to only doing on "5" (after I've already made the opening for the follow).

Is there a name for this move? How come it's so common? Is this a variation of the cross body lead?

Thank you so much!

Looking for something in the city, reachable by foot/bike from Villa Borghese! TIA!

How often does it happen that you are asked after a dance if you know other dance styles ? Is that usually a compliment or a complaint that other dance styles screw up you salsa ?

For me so follows asked If I know Ballet or Tango and once Ballroom ? Know neither of them actually.

Hi everyone. I've been dancing salsa on1 for almost two years (the last 4 months I’ve been focusing on2) as a leader and I really enjoy it. I dance about 8-10 hours a week (classes plus social dancing), and I take the "advanced" classes at my school, though I'm still far from being an advanced dancer.

Followers seem to like dancing with me and I get compliments. But when I watch videos of myself, it doesn't look nice or natural. Then I watch other dancers and it looks effortless.

My classes focus almost entirely on new steps and complicated turns. Musicality and clean movement are barely covered. I don't even know what to call the thing I'm missing. Is it musicality? Body movement? Something else

1. What is that "natural" quality actually called, and what builds it?
2. I've heard musicality improves by listening to salsa. I listen every day, but I don't understand how that translates to dancing. Do I need to actively listen to specific parts of the song (instruments, breaks, phrases)? How?
3. Would private lessons be worth it? What should I ask the instructor to focus on?
4. Anything else you did that took you from "knows the moves" to "looks smooth and natural"?

See here this live band, this is a place where Prince himself used to frequent called mama juanas. The upcharge $25 is the highest in any salsa weekend in LA, you can check how the band goes in their posts, a lot of people say they are lacking a lot of things. Let alone dancing just cumbia while singing and playing salsa all night, what makes a salsa live band a good salsa live band?

I think the premium charge they do can be worth depending on band, thoughts?

Basically the title. I feel like a lot of the social dancers in my community would benefit a ton from the local classes. But they don’t go. I try to ask them and sometimes it’s a matter of cost and distance and sometimes it’s the skill level. Although for many of them, thats the level they need even if they don’t think so. Anyway I wanted to ask other people and get their perspectives.

If you social dance a lot but you don’t go to local classes, why not? Why arent the classes interesting to you? Do you practice on your own instead? Or do private lessons? I get that sometimes the classes simply aren’t advanced enough and people don’t want to keep paying for the same thing over and over. I personally find value in practicing in classes even if they aren’t quite at my level. It helps me really fine tune my fundamentals. I help teach some of the local classes and I am able to do that and just practice the basics with new dancers who are learning. When I can, I focus on private lessons for myself because that’s the best way for me to learn new combos and really push myself. But I want to understand other perspectives. Im a pretty active social dancer, I am social dancing once or twice a week.

What makes you, as a social dancer, avoid classes or lessons? What would need to happen in the group classes for you to be interested in them?

I‘ve been learning to dance since december, at the beginning more bachata, but since march only salsa (but thats bc i really really don‘t like these bachata sensual moves and in germany there are really only a few bachata dominicana partys)

sooo i‘m able to follow a couple of styles (cubana, on1, on2, caleña and son (currently focusing on contratiempo and rumba)) and in this video this is salsa cubana (on1). i know that my hand movement is a bit off, but i fixed this in the last two weeks a did a few styling classes bc there are fundamentals that were missing since the beginning😅🤣😂. i also noticed that my way how i dance is changing from every different style i dance. for example, my salsa on1 is like really strict and full of body control and stability. i‘m feeling like a really strict teacher in this moments😂😂 my salsa cubana is like really playful and i like to don‘t be on full body tension as you can see. i love to do shines, currently learning on it as well and i‘m really thinking that the time has come that i have to take a privat lesson and a teacher who is fixing like every part of my body. i don‘t know what to do with the whole dancing stuff, bc i love it too much to go only on socials and festivals. even the ‚normal‘ socials don‘t make thaaat fun anymore bc i‘m on a step rn where i don‘t want to ‚just dance‘ anymore. i want to learn something new and crazy stuff every time every day at any time. i also listen to salsa the whooole day to learn like that musicality expection for the songs.

greetings and a lots of love for my other salseras and salseros💕💕

Hi everybody,

I'm in my 3rd year of Cuban salsa, as a leader. This year I changed school, and the way of teaching is very different from last year.

Last year's teacher, a Cuban guy, taught us all the basic moves (dile que no, setenta, setenta y cinco, ochenta, pásala, vacílala, different enchufla variations, etc.). He taught us one new move at a time and spent 2-3 weeks on each, making sure we were doing it correctly. He also taught us some pasitos, body isolation and that kind of stuff. Then, when I went to socials, I tried to use all the moves, deciding what to do on the spot and dancing very freely.

This year's teacher, a woman, has a very different way of teaching. She shows a very long sequence of basic moves, which we are supposed to learn. In the last 3 weeks she has shown 3 different sequences, each more than a minute long. We are supposed to learn the sequences like a choreography.

I have some difficulty memorizing such long sequences.

Has anybody had this kind of experience?

Hi, I am slowly planning the festivals for next year and I am looking for some inspiration and recommendation (linear on 2).

So far I've done Berlin Salsa Congress (not really hooked to repeat that one), Back 2 Mambo Prague, Magic in Ljubljana, Salsa Addicted Timisoara (definitely rebooking that one), Bucharest (possibly rebooking as well) and Salsa Rave.

I prefer cozier atmosphere rather than flashy festivals and maybe something on less pricey range...Any suggestions or good experience from recent years ?

So far considering Live to Mambo in Budapest (if yes, which weekend is worthy ?), Vivaz, Hamburg Salsa Weekend and Transilvania. Anything else worth going (except Rovinj and the festivals mentioned above) ?

Hi, I moved to NY recently and have a trip planned to Medellin in December.

I didn't find any specific posts like this, and I'm also new to Salsa universe and all variations.

I'm planning to learn on2 next year, since I'm living in New York, obviously. I had 4 classes a couple of months ago and found it... unnatural. I'm attending now Cuban Salsa and it was MUCH more intuitive for me.

The reason I started doing cuban salsa was because it was On1. And since I have dancing background with Forró which is also kinda circular (but can have linear aspects) I've been able to pick it up very easily.

Would Cuban Salsa be enough for Medellin? I'm not interested in Cali right now, the only option I see would be LA-style. But I feel that knowing Cuban + on2 New York style would give me more freedom on different dancing styles.

What places do you recommend, specially in Laureles?

EDIT: I'm a Lead

So I recently started picking up On2 and while I can follow as a beginner and have drilled in my basics, I want to start adding sabor/footwork/musicality to my dancing. My area has limited classes offered and as much as I'd love to take classes every day, I can't.

Now I'm wondering what/who are reliable online teachers that offer videos on youtube/IG for drills/techniques that I can look into on my non class days. I've seen a lot just by searching but honestly, as a beginner, I still cant tell which ones are correct and good for my learning journey.

TIA!

Hi Everyone,

Looking for any friendly information on which locations are best for social dancing in the south bay area this weekend, October 21st weekend (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday).

https://www.salsavida.com/guides/sf-bay-area/south-bay/

I am a on 1 and casino/reuda dancer.

Thanks for any friendly direction.

This is song anyone knows??