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teach you salsa
What country and city should I visit to practice salsa dancing?
May be you can advise some special schools or courses which teach salsa tips to foreigners. Or may be you know about some special events devoted to the subject to happen this summer?
I agree with Caballero326. The “foreigen” countries with the strongest salsa cultures are Cuba, Puerto Rico and Colombia. The US has strong salsa culture in New York, LA and Miami.
One thing to keep in mind is that the way people dance salsa also varies with the culture. New York, LA, Miami, Cuba and Colombia all have their own unique dance style. Puerto Ricans dance a lot like New Yorkers due to the extensive contact between New York and Puerto Rico. Miami is a lot like Cuban since it was created by Cubans who moved to Miami.
New York, Puerto Rican and LA style salsa all move in a straight line back and forth. LA style has more dip, flips and acrobatics whereas New York style si danced “on2″ and is more “classic”.
My personal favorite is Cuban style salsa which is called “Casino” by Cubans. They have been dancing casino since the 50s and the name “salsa” only came into use in the 70s, so they still call the dance “casino”. In the US people usually say Cuban-Style salsa. The Cuban dancers move in a circular pattern. Their moves are chacterized by lots of complex tangling up and unravelling which requires rotation to work. If you don’t rotate, you break your arm. I personally like the Cuban music better too.
Assuming that you are in the United States you probably can’t legally take a trip to Cuba due to the US ban on travel to Cuba. But you can always go to Miami. Miami style salsa is very close to Cuban-style since it is the Cuban population of Miami that has created it.
There are also other options for learning Cuban style salsa outside of Cuba. If you are looking for a fun vacation that you can combine with salsa lessons here are some events you might consider this summer:
There is a 1 week salsa cruise from Vancouver to Alaska August 13-20, with salsa classes, parties at night and stops during the day where you can disembark and hike on glaciers, or whatever you want to do.
http://www.hotsaborcubanodance.com/cruise2008/from
The Cuban world salsa congress, Cubamemucho, will be having various events this summer
http://www.cubamemucho.com
Krakow, Poland May 1-4
Odessa, Ukraine July 4-6
Nottingham, England August 1-3
Toulouse, France September 5-7
Budapest, Humgary November 7-9
Here are some videos of various salsa dance styles so you can see what I mean about the differences and similarities.
New York
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUSD6yC5PLc
LA
Colombia:
Here is Colombian-style and has a lot of things from LA Style and NY style. This couple is basically putting on a show, rather than social dancing. In a crowded club you don’t have room for dips and drops. What is unique to this style is the footwork, which I believe comes from boogalu.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEuhOR_Arh
BUT here is how the Colombians I have met ACTUALLY dance salsa. It is much more like Cuban style than the Colombian salsa danced by dance instructors and at competitions.
Cuban Style salsa (Casino)
You can see that they rotate or she rotates around him. Also at about 1:19 they switch to dancing afro-cuban Rumba for 30 seconds before going back to casino. At 3:00 minutes they do some tembleque followed by rumba again and then back to casino. They do this in response to changes in the rhythm section during the song.
Here is another look at casino.
And here is Rueda de Casino where they dance casino as a group. One person leads and calls out the names of different moves. The couples have to perform them in perfect coordination because they often switch partners at the end of each move. But it’s not the same as choreography because any move can be called at any time, and any couple that knows the name of the moves can join in the rueda, even if they’ve never met anyone else in the group before. Imagine, if you knew the names of these moves, you could join them in this dance and it would work perfectly!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rrl1uAGw8yw
teach you salsa
How To Teach- Anything!
I felt I had to write this piece because, as a deliberate lifelong learner I am always working at learning something new (currently Internet Marketing, jazz guitar and salsa) but, along with some excellent learning experiences, I have had some poor ones. One of the reasons I keep taking on new things is that for me learning is fun and if it is taught with humour it’s even more so and I learn better! I feel its time to share some of my learning because I have been teaching for 20 years, 15 years of those as a qualified secondary school music teacher. Teaching is now under close scrutiny and this has really improved my teaching. Basically, I believe know how to teach.
Most people who go into non-formal teaching come from the skills route. They are good at something – perhaps an expert and therefore feel qualified to pass that knowledge on – mainly because it allows them to continue doing what they love. That is excellent because the first things good teachers need are sound subject knowledge and a love for their subject. The next things most non-formal route teachers have is that they are good with people (otherwise they probably wouldn’t have chosen to go into teaching). This is another great plus and in some cases is absent in traditional teachers. However, this is still not enough. The most important ingredients in knowing how to teach are an understanding of how people learn (the many different ways) AND a knowledge of how to check they have learned what you want them to learn. You must be able to assess them in the context where they will deliver that learning.
You have really learned something when you can take the learning and use the skill or knowledge in a different context. This brings me to my most frustrating learning experience (well, its not frustrating anymore – because it has helped me understand exactly how I learn. It just is what it is.)
Salsa. I love dancing and wanted to do something healthy, rhythmical, a bit sexy and fun where I would meet lots of new people (and I have – in fact the singer of the band I’m playing with I met through Salsa). I have had 20 lessons with 3 different schools and pretty well all of them have been wonderfully skillful dancers with excellent communication and a fine ability to transfer their knowledge. Then how come I still can’t go to a Salsa club and dance? I’ve been a musician just about all of my life so have good rhythm. I love dancing and can mix it with the best of them when doing R&B, funk and even have had some psytrance moments. So, what’s the deal? Why do I go blank the moment I step on a dance floor? Its the way I learn, the story I tell myself and the way most of them teach. I’ve worked on the story because I know I learn well in the right contexts. But still……
What they generally do is teach you a new step each lesson – each week. You clearly can’t go out and do one step over and over again at a salsa club (unless you want to bore a girl rigid – most girls are there to improve their dancing as well and the guy has to lead) so realtime practice isn’t really on yet. So, each week is a totally different step. Hang on, I can’t remember the last one and quite often the teacher can’t as well. Apart from one school that I couldn’t remain at because of distance, my salsa learning hasn’t been part of a progressive course with skills building upon reinforced skills. Now, don’t get me wrong, I am not complaining. It appears to work perfectly well for most people. But I am a learner who must see something working in context for the learning to ‘bed’ in. I have that particular type of learning style. And this doesn’t stop at salsa for me. How many of you readers have done a course or class, taken loads of notes only to find that, in a few days you don’t really know how to ‘do’ it? My most successful learning experiences have usually been at life-drawing classes and tai-chi where you do it and do it in context and each time you do it, something is suggested to correct your style. You bed in the learning and then the next week you start from where you are and build on that and so on.
I could expand upon the aspect of doing the skill with non-participant learner (who may have learned the same thing in a different way) or in front of an audience, but I think I’ll just stick to how to be better at teaching for now.
When I teach people guitar, I work hard on the context. The art of improvising a solo is very much like dancing. I teach them the skills needed to be able to physically play the solo and then teach them how to construct a solo. I teach them entry points, exit points and styles therein, the different effect that a certain harmony or pitch will create and the shape of a solo. I then play a rhythm part over and over in different ways for them while they try out the construction ideas and how to get the newly learned ‘licks’ to fit. I assess how well they have taken the learning on board. This informs my next lesson (which is usually the same thing from a different angle that in my view will address the perceived shortcoming). I’m not saying I’m a great teacher, I probably teach in this style because that is how I learn. I just know I get pretty good results.
Now, for a moment lets take this into personal development. Perhaps you’ve been on a course or workshop and been shown a great technique for clearing an issue or improving an area of your life. This then becomes challenging to put it into context because the thing we usually want to work on has a significant emotional dimension to it. Its not always something you want to do in public. So, it is up to the teacher to work out how the student can learn this technique so they can use it in their own context. They know their stuff but they don’t always know how to teach it. I’ve come home from so many workshops all keen to do some work on issues and, because I’m not sure I am doing it right, having not learned it in the context it would be used, I stall and then sometimes even stop. I don’t want to keep asking how to do it because I feel a little bit embarrassed (stupid) as it seems that I’m one of only a few who hasn’t got it. I know I’m not, but these feelings do arise. It’s also because I don’t want to stop others from moving to the next stage. Again, it is because of my style of learning. Now, I know I’m unique – but I can’t be the onlyone who learns in this way!
So, here is my recipe for how to teach anything.
- Decide what you want them to learn in what period of time and how you will check that they have
- Come up with a remedial system for the ones that are falling behind
- Differentiate the learning to accommodate most learning styles. These are visual, kinaesthetic and audio
- Set the learning objective at the start of each lesson – the mind likes to know what it is being asked to do
- Teach it with humour and passion
- Check that they have learned it in the context they will use it
- If there are areas still not learned make a not to inform your next teaching experience
- Start the next lesson picking up the issues from the lesson before and then check again
There you have it. How to teach anything.
About the Author
John Sammers helps you achieve personal or business goals rapidly using the law of attraction. He is a certified life coach, a certified Master Practitioner of NLP & Hypnotherapy, a certified EFT practitioner and the founder of Fulfil.ltd.uk. His main area of training is in powerful and effective communication and achieving success through understanding the language of the unconscious mind.
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Does anyone want to teach me to salsa? I live in Monmouth County NJ.?
I don’t have a partner, but I look good and can dance well. You don’t have to be a professional instructor but you must dance like one. Serious inquires only please!
I’d want to teach you salsa, but I’m more towards Philadelphia. I am a good lead too.
Have you considered group salsa lessons? They are usually only $10 to $12 a class and you don’t need a dance partner. The women in the class are rotated often so everyone has a chance to dance with a partner.
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