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.

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

Salsa Nick’s Tuesday night Salsa Rueda class begins a new series tonight. This month we are going back to basics, so get your friends involved or just polish up your skills.

7-8 pm: Beginning Salsa Rueda Class, groups A and B

8-9 pm: Intermediate Salsa Rueda Class, groups C and D

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

check the curriculum here and see which group you should dance in.

Drop-in: $12 for one or $17 for two hours, Workshop price: $40 for one and $60 for two.

Join Salsa Nick in the New Year at his first class of the New Year.

Salsa Rueda @ The Beat in Berkeley.

2560 9th st. (x-Dwight), Berkeley California.

7-8: Beg/Int Salsa and Salsa Rueda

8-9: Int/Adv Salsa Rueda

Dance in the New Year with Salsa Nick and Salsa Vale Todo.

Salsa and Casino Rueda classes with Nick & India
Every Sunday!
Salsa and Casino Rueda classes with Nick & India

7pm - 8pm: Beginner/Intermediate Salsa and Rueda
8pm - 9pm: Intermediate/Advanced Salsa and Rueda

$12 drop-in for 1 or 2 hours

The Beat Dance Studio in Berkeley: 2560 9th St. (x- dwight)

Tonight is Salsa Rueda with Nick and Serena

@ Shoebox Studios in San Francisco

6:00pm - 6:30pm: Beg. Footwork and Timing

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

Shoebox Studio is centrally located in Downtown San Francisco, on Folsom St. between 4th and 5th St. Shoebox is a few short blocks from Powell Bart/Muni Station.

Tonight and every Tuesday night is Nick and India’s Salsa Rueda class

At Isabelle’s studio: 6007 Christie st. ( facing Kinkos, on 59th)

7-8pm: Group A and B (curriculum)

8-9pm: Group D (curriculum)

Drop-in: $12 for one hour and $17 for two.