“Salsafy Your Life”, Dancing Solutions to Energize Your Life, An A-Z Guide, is a cute little book, published 2018. Almost a “Salsa for Dummies for Children and Grown Ups”. Most pages have a headline with a picture of dancers often featuring the author, a short paragraph or two, a yellow post-it note, and a bulleted list with highlights. Almost a
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Abanico (Fan) is a great intermediate move and everybody seems to agree about the name and the basic figure. The short version of the move is not that interesting on its own but the extended version, sometimes called Abanico con Giro, is one of my favorites. The following is a tutorial about all you have ever wanted to know about
Read moreI stumbled upon some interesting videos at a YouTube Channel called Gianfranco Bighi from the Que Vadis Dance School in Ferrara, half way between Bologna and Venice! I don’t know if it still exists, the original website of the school is today a webshop. No doubt that we are talking about an “Old School” classic dance teacher with many years
Read moreThis is a “rare” (seen from Scandinavia) Colombian Cuban Salsa dance school located in Bogota. They have more than 100 of the very best salsa videos, all levels, beautifully organized in “Básico”, “Intermedio”, “Avanzado”, and the website is not a relic of the past but still active. The dancers are lovely, they dance even better, except that the leader in
Read moreThe RuedaStandard.com – Cuban Rueda de Casino, formerly known as “The Norwegian Rueda Standard”, is one of the best and most important resources about Cuban Salsa or rather about the Rueda way of dancing Cuban Salsa. RuedaStandard.com and their work is so important that I will make a major blogpost one day reviewing the initiative from A to Z. I
Read moreThe logo of this Spanish YouTube channel is a frog. The channel has very many educational videos, dancing, martial arts, you name it. The “Latin-mix” videos cover Cuban Salsa, Salsa footwork, X-Body Salsa, Bachata, Cha-cha-cha and Merenque all featuring “Pedro y Noe”. Many of their videos are quite good. This Pedro is impressive and often he gives good instructions. But
Read moreAvinciia Dance Academy, Paris, has many Salsa videos also on Avinciia YouTube. The dancers in the videos I have seen, Armandino & Elodie, are elegant, and if you understand French, the videos are good inspiration. In the first series of videos, Armandino is dressed in vest and boots and in the more recent videos in all white making the videos
Read moreThe DanceLiker School (YouTube) is a Russian dance school in Moscow, http://www.danceliker.ru. They have many good videos, Cuban Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba. I have looked at many of the Salsa videos featuring a Cuban type of guy, Adonis Santiago, and Svetlana Ovchinina. Even when you don’t understand the language, the instructions make sense! And he certainly have this inspiring Cuban feel to
Read moreThe website dancepapi.com, San Fracisco Bay Area, is one of the very best Salsa websites, still mostly for beginner and intermediate level. The website is more relaxed to use but the videos can also be accessed from YouTube. The website has sections for Cuban Salsa, “X-Body Salsa On 1”, and for some of the instruments used in Salsa music. The
Read moreWhen a relatively new Salsero after 2-3 years or more, depending on talent and effort, has danced at advanced level of several Schools for some time, there are two good ways to proceed: “enough” or “more”. The “enough” approach is ok. There are other things in life than dancing and you can always dance socially as much as you like.
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