Salsa and Rueda with Salsa Nick

May 18th we will continue our progressive workshop series. This progressive series has a carefully crafted curriculum with varying levels to get you started dancing Rueda de Casino or dancing at the next level. Beginning levels will get you familiar with basic Rueda de Casino and Salsa and our Intermediate workshop is designed to bring you to the advanced level.

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

SALSA APRETADA: Closed Position Workshop Series for Intermediate/Adv Dancers
Every Thursday in May
7pm-8pm
(4-week progressive workshop series)
@ THE BEAT in Berkeley

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!!.

SalsaMatics Workshop Series

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.

Come check out Rueda Vale Todo at Bollyhood in San Francisco Tonight.

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

Saturday (6/6) - Come Celebrate the Birthday of Salsa Vale Todo dancer Hans Katzberg at The Ramp in S.F.  3pmish till 8ish…

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

Come learn Salsa Casino, Rueda De Casino, Son, and more.

Salsa Nick, Serena and all of Salsa Vale Todo look forward to bringing Salsa, Timba and dancing into your life.

Weekly Schedule For April 2009

Sunday: Salsa Rueda with Nick and Salsa Vale Todo at The Beat in Berkeley: 2560 9th st. (cross street is Dwight) 7-8 pm Beg/Int Salsa and Salsa Rueda, 8-9pm Int/Adv Salsa Rueda. Multiple circles and instructors.

Monday: Salsa Rueda with Nick and Serena at Shoebox Studios in S.F.: 855 Folsom St. Suite 112. 6:30-7:30pm: Multi-Level Salsa Rueda and open work.

Tuesday: Salsa Rueda Workshop Series with Nick and Serena at Isabelle’s Studio in Emeryville: 6007 Christie Ave. (Behind FedEx Kinkos facing 59th), 7-8pm:Group A and B, 8-9pm: Group C,D and sometimes E, see www.bayareasalsarueda.com for the curriculum. New Series starts the first Tuesday of the month (that means the 7th of April).  $40 for one workshop/$60 for two, drop-in: $12 and $17

Wednesday: Salsa Casino and a little Salsa Rueda at Duniya Dance in San Francisco with Nick and Serena. Right next to Little Baobob. 3380 19th St/Mission. 9-10pm, $10 - Salsa Suelta (open work), Casino Salsa and Rueda de Casino. Dancing afterwards right next door with Anejo Productions spinning the best Timba Salsa.

Friday: Team SVT practices. Amazing new group forming specializing in unrehearsed Ruedas. Think you have what it takes?  Ask Nick or Serena about joining.

Private Lesson: Private Lessons are a great way to get started, improve and refine your dance.  Nick and Serena offer one hour private lessons for $70 and packages of 5 for only $300.  See Here for more info.

Upcoming Events:

2009 Salsa Casino Festival in Venezuela: May 1-3, Join Salsa Nick and Serena in Venezuela for one of the biggest events in Salsa Casino.

2010 SF/Bay Area Salsa Rueda Festival: February 18th-21st. Save the date.Bigger, Better and Bolder then last year.

Salsa Nick: 510-207-4289, casinosalsa@yahoo.com

Serena: 415-608-6180, salsambista@gmail.com

Nickerena: salsavaletodo@gmail.com

Check out the recent article on the SF Salsa Rueda Festival on Timba.com

http://www.timba.com/artists/news/index.asp#20090324

Tonight and every Monday night.

Salsa Rueda with Nick and Serena of Salsa Vale Todo

At Shoebox Studio; 855 Folsom St. Suite 112, San Francisco, CA

6:30 - 7:30 pm: Multi-Level Salsa Rueda and Salsa Casino

Everything you need to dance Rueda de Casino in the Bay and beyond!!!

Hello to the Salsa Rueda family,

Excitement grows for the first ever SF/Bay Area Salsa Rueda Festival. We are now only 40 days from the big event. Performance groups are training hard, our staff is organizing like crazy and our DJ’s and bands are picking out the best Timba tracks for your dancing enjoyment.
Our great early registration deals are ending in 4 days on Jan 15th. That means register soon for the best deals for this great event. You will still be able to purchase tickets both on-line and at the event after Jan 15th.

register at http://salsaruedafestival.com/register.htm

schedule of events: http://salsaruedafestival.com/workshopschedule.htm

instructors bios: http://salsaruedafestival.com/instructors.htm

Performers at: http://salsaruedafestival.com/performers.htm

Vendors, still time to get a table at this amazing event, see http://salsaruedafestival.com/vendor.htm for more info

We can’t wait to see the whole Rueda family in one place.

Una Bulla!!!

Nick and Serena and Salsa Vale Todo