This weekend in S.F. is Carnaval Parade and Festival

Salsa Vale Todo’s Havana Village will be at 17th and Harrison

Come on by for great music, dancing and awesome people.

Schedule of events at www.salsavaletodo.com/havanavillage.htm

Episode 2: Salsa Caminada - enchuflas, paseas, exhibes y vacilias

At The Roccopulco Night Club!!!

May 12th, 19th, and 26th of 2010

In our second installment of our SalsaMatics series we will open it up two more distances from our partner. We will also explore and become grounded in our core Casino Salsa movements; enchufla, paseas, exhibes and vacilia. We will examine how we move out of our closed position framework and create a more fluid framework to allow for more freedom of interaction between you and your partner. Participants should be intermediate to advanced Salsa and Salsa Casino dancers and have a working knowledge of these core movements as well as “dile que no”. We will be exploring using more advanced movements in your basic turns and how that relates to more complicated figures.

3-week progressive workshop series

3 Wednesdays in May 8:30pm till 9:30 pm at Roccopulco: 3140 Mission Street, San Francisco

PRICES INCLUDE YOUR ADMISSION TO ROCCAPULCO FOR DANCING AFTERWARDS

$14: Drop-In

May 19th - El Espectaculo

* Adv. Caminado Drills

* Exhibes y vacilias , 3 ways to lead vacilia

* vacilia adelante, la complicada, dos y una, exhibe doble loca, exhibe Usukama, vacilon

We hope you join us as we dance and develop together a style that is uniquely The Bay Area.

Dancing afterwards with DJ WaltDigz and Dark Rum spinning the best Timba and Salsa Cubana for your dancing pleasure.

Nick and Serena teach together giving you the benefit of both lead and follow technique and styling. They bring over 10 years of experience at teaching in the Bay area. Bios at: http://salsavaletodo.com/valetodoprivates.htm

Experienced Salsa Rueda dancers : Is there a gap in your knowledge, moves that you are not familiar with? Perhaps you have some friends who have never done Salsa or Rueda before, here’s their chance to get involved.

Experienced Salsa Dancers: Even if you have been dancing Salsa for awhile it is a good idea to start at the beginning when learning the Salsa Rueda curriculum. Here is your opportunity. All the moves you need to get you to the intermediate level.

New Salsa dancers: Have no fear; you can learn both Salsa and Salsa Rueda at the same time. In fact it is a great way to learn club style dancing. The skills you learn from dancing this style of Salsa will make you a better club dancer in the end.

We encourage everybody to come and join our growing community of Salsa Rueda enthusiasts.

7-8 pm : Beginning and Beginning 2
8-9 pm : Intermediate

@ Isabelle’s Studio : 6007 Christie Ave. (Behind FedEx Kinkos facing 59th) , Emeryville

Each workshop is a progressive structured class to take you through the basic/Beginning and Intermediate curiculum.

Curriculum for May 18

7-8pm: beg. circle: enchufla pa’l medio con dos, h/m derecha/izquerda, pasala con los manos, adios, princpe bueno, malo, castigalo, festival de enchufla

beg 2 circle: kentucky, 70, flamenco, dame con guaperia, la complicada

8-9 pm: Int circle: dedo guapo y botela, juana la cubana, 7 con coca-cola, enchufla con mambo, enchufla/adios/dame pa’arriba

Familia Casinera, este año CMV con Ritmo cumple 5 años de trayectoria, queremos celebrar en grande compartiendo con toda la Comunidad Salsera en nuestro 1er evento Salsa Casino Mayan Congress 2010 del 16 al 19 de Septiembre en Cancun, Q. Roo Mexico.

Gracias a todos nuestros alumnos y amigos que nos han hecho crecer dia con dia, que han confiado en nosotros y nos han permitido fortalecer y promover la Salsa Cubana y Rueda de Casino en Mexico.

Queremos invitar a todos los grupos y compañias de Salsa a presentarse en nuestro evento, para disfrutar y compartir juntos de esta gran pasion por el baile en uno de los lugares más bellos de Mexico, Cancun.

Contaremos con Instructores Nacionales e Internacionales, impartiendo mas de 40 talleres en Salsa Cubana, Rueda de Casino, Rumba, Son, Reggeaton y Danza Afrocubana.
Orquesta Invitada directamente de Cuba: Alexander Abreu & Havana D’ Primera

Para mayor detalle del evento, informacion de precios, formas de pago, instructores, hotel sede, etc, por favor consultar la seccion de informacion del Grupo Salsa Casino Mayan Congress 2010 en facebook o consulta nuestra pagina web: www.cmvconritmo.com

Get ready to have a wonderful time in one of the best beaches in the World, Cancun! 4 Days of Cuban Style Salsa, Rueda de Casino, Rumba, Afro, Son & Reggeaton workshops, Megarueda in the beach, and if that is not enough, be ready for the “Alexander Abreu & Havana D Primera” Concert!

We often find ourselves as Casino (Cuban) style dancers, dancing to complex fast Timba Salsa in small crowded clubs. Usually the best music and dancers are found in the most crowded of clubs. At times, the music calls for a break from open and larger movements. Still wanting to dance and express ourselves we have developed a workshop series that focuses on the closed position in Casino Style Salsa. Our techniques are drawn from a variety of sources including Danzon, Son, Casino, Salsa Linea, Tango, and Tai Chi. Our workshop starts with the basics adapted to crowded intimate dance floors, and covers travelling, rhythm changes, posture, connection, communication, turnillo, adapting complex moves to club situations, Paseas, Habaneras, Suelta Detrás. Learn to lead and follow anything in a relaxed friendly environment without all that yanking, pushing and pulling to communicate with each other.

at The Beat, 2560 9th Street, Suite #119 (at Parker), Berkeley, CA

If you took this workshop last month at SalsaMatics SF, please feel free to repeat to improve your closed position dancing!!

$12/ drop-in
$40 for all 4 sessions

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE

May 6th - Pasos Básicos y Más
* posture/connection/communication
* postura/entregarme/espejo
* pa’l medio, caminamos, son montuo, abajo, exhibe, DQN, DQN con ganchos, girar, pequeña adiós, coca-cola con mano, dile que si, DQN con giro, 7, 7 con coca-cola

May 13th - Footwork in Salsa Cerca, Habaneras and Traveling
* closed position footwork
* DQN en tres direcciones
* closed position rhythm changes - 2 ways to switch to contra-tiempo with your partner, as well as 3 other rhythm variations.
* basics of moving with your partner around a crowded dance floor without hitting anyone.

May 20th - Paseas y Suelta Detrás
* entrances to Suelta Detrás footwork positions
* lead and follow Suelta Detrás footwork
* Paseas from a closed position: pasea pa’ abajo, pasea pa’arriba, pasala a lo cubano, coca-cola pa’ afuera, cross-handed travelling

May 27th - putting it all together
* quick review
* dancing in the club: club style versions of your favorite basic moves: dos y una loca, setenta, vacilia, y dedo.
* beginning turnillo in closed position
*lead and follow with no hands

We hope you join us as we dance and develop together a style that is uniquely The Bay Area.

Coming Soon!!! More Salsamatics Workshops!!
Paseas y Enchuflas, Salsa Suelta, Miami Style Casino Salsa, Tricks/drops and Lifts, Turnillo, Performance Workshops and much more!!.

Episode 2: Salsa Caminada - enchuflas, paseas, exhibes y vacilias

At The Roccopulco Night Club!!!

May 12th, 19th, and 26th of 2010

In our second installment of our SalsaMatics series we will open it up two more distances from our partner. We will also explore and become grounded in our core Casino Salsa movements; enchufla, paseas, exhibes and vacilia. We will examine how we move out of our closed position framework and create a more fluid framework to allow for more freedom of interaction between you and your partner. Participants should be intermediate to advanced Salsa and Salsa Casino dancers and have a working knowledge of these core movements as well as “dile que no”. We will be exploring using more advanced movements in your basic turns and how that relates to more complicated figures.

3-week progressive workshop series

3 Wednesdays in May 8:45pm till 10:00 pm at Roccopulco: 3140 Mission Street, San Francisco

PRICES INCLUDE YOUR ADMISSION TO ROCCAPULCO FOR DANCING AFTERWARDS

**SPECIAL PRE-REG PRICE, REGISTER BEFORE May 5th AND CLASS IS ONLY $27 FOR ALL 3 SESSIONS*** (call 415-608-6180 to pre-reg)

$32 for all 3 sessions after May 5th

$14: Drop-In

Schedule:

May 12th - Salsa Adelante

* Caminado Basico (basics drill in 3 movements incorporating both lead and follow technique and style)

* all about Enchufla y Paseas, the “enchufla pulse and pasea tone”

* enchufla from gupea and in circa, enchufla doble con alarde, enchufla hook, enchufla con candado, adios con la hermana, doble cero, sabor sabreado, pasea pa’abjo, pasea pa’ arriba, coca-cola pa afuera, la jenny, lasso

May 19th - El Espectaculo

* Adv. Caminado Drills

* Exhibes y vacilias , 3 ways to lead vacilia

* vacilia adelante, la complicada, dos y una, exhibe doble loca, exhibe Usukama, vacilon

May 26th - Compound Movements

* quick review of past weeks

* This week we will study patterns that drill the core movements in more complicated ways.

* exhibe con alma, pasea por al parque, la jenny complicada, chocolate cailente, campana

* lead and follow with no hands

We hope you join us as we dance and develop together a style that is uniquely The Bay Area.

Dancing afterwards with DJ WaltDigz and Dark Rum spinning the best Timba and Salsa Cubana for your dancing pleasure.

The men and women of RVT will be performing a improvised “called” Rueda De Casino (Salsa Rueda) piece.

Bollyhood Cafe is at 3372 19th Street in San Francisco
Saturdays from 3 to 8 pm.
Performance by Rueda Vale Todo will be around 6pm.

Rueda Vale Todo - Last call for new performers!!
 Last Chance

As we begin to prepare for the upcoming Salsa Rueda Festival in San Francisco in February, we will be finalizing our performance team members for the upcoming months and for the Festival.

All interested dancers should contact Nick or Serena by November 15th. After that we will no longer be accepting new dancers until after February of 2010

Come take workshops and party it up for the 2nd annual SF Bay Area Salsa Rueda Festival. 4 nights and 3 days of workshops, Danzon y Son Lounge, cocktail parties, performances, parties, live Cuban bands, and DJs.

Special Danzon y Son Lounge hosted by master instructor Roberto Borrell- mingle, dance, eat, and enjoy traditional Cuban music. Heavy appetizers will be served.

New Beginner’s Track: A whole area devoted to beginners- invite your friends and family for intensive intro to the basics of casino and rueda or brush up your technique and skills with master instructors.

Over 40 workshops in Rueda de Casino, Casino, Son, Cha Cha Cha, Danzon, Rumba, Afro-Cuban Folkloric, Salsa Suelta, Cuban Styling, and Cuban Music Appreciation and Listening…Over 4 rooms of classes to choose from! Special beginner’s track offered…

3 live Cuban Timba Bands!

Mega Ruedas, Dancing, and Performances in the beautiful historic Hotel Whitcomb ballroom! Cocktail parties!

Confirmed Instructors-2010
more T.B.A.

Roberto Borrell (Havana - San Francisco - Peru)
David Huo (Beijing)
duane Wrenn (Energetic Dance Studios - Detroit, Michigan)
Mike and Simona (Rumbanana - Corvallis, Oregan)
Salsa Nick and Serena (Salsa Vale Todo - San Francisco, CA)
Yismari Ramos Tellez (Havana - Bay Area)
Javier Rosillo and Ninoska Cumaraima (Caracas, Venezuela)
Chris Rogicki ( Fuakata - New York)
Sidney Weaverling and Ryan Mead (Rueda Con Ritmo - San Francisco, CA)
Jose Barrosso ( Havana - Bay Area)
Ramon Ramos Alayo ( Havana - Bay Area)
Damon Weber (Casineros Que Son Son - Los Angeles)
Yuseff Breffe (Havana - Italy - Bay Area)
Cora Barnes (Timbea - Oakland)
Julian Meija (Salsatlanta - Atlanta, Georgia)
Paricia Foy (Afri-K-Cineras - Los Angeles)
Tania De La Pena ( Rueda in the Park - Los Angeles)
Victoria Hadar-Harel (New York)
Manuel Suarez (CultuCuba - Havana - Oakland)
Sandra Moro Sleeper (Street Salsa - Austin, Texas)
Royland Lobato (CultuCuba - Havana - Oakland)
Jennifer Gonzalez (Saoco D.C. - Washington D.C.)
Leslie Vazquez and Reinier Fernandez (CMV con Ritmo - Mexico City)
Marcos Ravelo (Havana - Calgary, Canada)
more T.B.A.

Schedule of Events:

Thurs night, Feb 18th: Cocktail party and Welcome Party with live music by Rumbache.

Fri, Feb 19th: Workshops from 1-5pm in Casino style Salsa, Rueda de Casino, Rumba, Afro-Cuban folkloric, Son, and Music Appreciation. Danzon y Son Lounge hosted by master instructor and special guest, Roberto Borrell. Party with dance performances and Jesus Diaz y Su QBA

Sat, Feb 20th: Workshops from 10am-5pm. Cocktail party, performances and party with Fito Reinoso and DJs Walt Digz and Dark Rum from Anejo Productions.

Sun, Feb 21st: Workshops from 10am-4pm. Farewell party with performances and dancing to a live Cuban band (TBA).

Register by Nov 15th for a discount…

Visit the website for more info: www.salsaruedafestival.com

Sunday (6/7) - Salsa and Rueda de Casino at The Beat in Berkeley. 2560 9th st. (x-Dwight) 7-8pm: Beg/Int Salsa Rueda, 8-9pm: Int/Adv Rueda

Monday (6/8) - Salsa Suelta and Salsa Rueda at Shoebox Studios in S.F. 6:30pm-7:30 pm: mixed level Salsa Rueda. 855 Folsom St. Suite 112

Tuesday (6/9) - Salsa Rueda progressive workshop series in Emeryville @ Isabelle’s Studio : 6007 Christie Ave. (Behind FedEx Kinkos facing 59th). 7-8 pm: beg/int Salsa Rueda, 8-9pm: int/adv Salsa Rueda.

Wednesday (6/10) - Casino Salsa and Cuban style partnering in S.F. Duniya Dance Studio: 3380 19th St/Mission, 9-10pm: Multi Level Cuban Salsa and a little Rueda. Dancing at Baobob right next door till 2 am!!

Friday (6/12) - Team SVT rehearsal. Performance at Mission in the Mix, June 19-20, 26-27