The Lead, poor fellow, never ever experiences any other dance than his own. The Follow on the other hand dances a new dance with each and every single Lead she dances with. If we want to define a social dance like Cuban Salsa, just ask the Follows. Cuban Salsa can be defined as the collective experience of the Follows, of
Read moreIf salsa dancing is going to be more than a secret pleasure for the few outside the Latino world, it really must be better grounded also in the local culture. If we love salsa dancing so much that we want it to become mainstream culture, it must be rooted in ourselves. If we want salsa dancing to become for all
Read moreIf you hold hands when you go social dancing, you are all wrong in most dance styles. We don’t hold hands or should not hold hands. Hands should only touch hands with a varying degree of tension. We use fingertips against fingertips and even hooked fingers. We might rest a hand on or in a hand but we never hold
Read moreMost Leads find it difficult to add new moves to their repertoire. At intermediate level we hardly have enough figures for one dance. At advanced level we have more moves to choose from but most of us more or less still dance the same dance over and over again. Keeping a solid repertoire of moves alive is not easy. If
Read moreMany Leads in Cuban Salsa, X-Body Salsa, West Coast Swing, etc, get along well using the same handful of moves over and over again. If that is good enough for you, if you are that type of person, no offense, just do it your way. But some of us would like to get better, especially we would like to become
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30 km from Copenhagen, we have some of the best summer salsa open air dance events, in 2018: four Fridays in August with live music. Roskilde has a vibrant Cuban Salsa community spearheaded by the Salsa Latina Dance School. This dance school could be a good model for other small towns, a community of the local dancers, run by volunteers.
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“Islands Brygge” (Island’s Quay) in the center of Copenhagen harbor is a very popular place for open air free dance events like Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba and Tango, almost every day in the summer time, and you have many indoor dance events the rest of the year. This local Cultural Center dance venue with a lot of outdoor and indoor facilities,
Read moreThe challenge of rejection in social dancing is often downplayed to the extent that we almost lie about it. I’m not just talking about getting a no when asking for a dance but also about not being asked at all or so little that it is such a pain to go social dancing that you don’t go. Rejection is a
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“Dansepladsen” (litteraly “the place to dance”) is located in a corner of the biggest park of Copenhagen, “Fælledparken”. If the sun is shining, “Dansepladsen”, simply called “Fælledparken” among the local dancers, is the most popular dance venue in Copenhagen. It is free and it is World Class. 1. Summer Dance in Fælledparken During the summer, from end of June to
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“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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