Any type of dancing is great fun and is a brilliant social asset and can give you access to a whole new range of friends. Dancing regularly reduces stress, helps keep you fit, improves your coordination whilst building your confidence. Partner dancing, in particular, helps you to interact with other people. It's a partial cure for depression too.
If you want to combine a gentle exercise with a good social life whilst listening to great music, then partner dancing is for you. If you have had enough of feeling silly getting onto a dance floor, then you need lessons not alcohol (or both lol). After over-indulging in food, many people will no doubt want to shed a few pounds weight. Dancing is so much more fun than working out in a Gym & can be one the most healthy addictions possible.
At BestSalsa classes in London, we offer all salsa styles so that wherever our students go to dance salsa, they will be able to dance with anyone else who can dance. Our Salsa classes in the City of London are designed for all levels from absolute beginners to advanced on Mondays. Practice makes perfect, so we recommend that you stay after your lessons to practice your new moves to ensure that you do not forget them.
No partner is necessary to attend BestSalsa classes as we change partners frequently.
There is no need to book up in advance either.
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BestSalsa also offer lessons tailored to the needs of groups or individuals, Guest teaching, DJ hire, Corporate events Weddings and Parties. We can also help to promote other people's events - mostly via one of our mailing lists.
Salsa dancing has become a particularly popular partner dance and is growing across the UK and the rest of the world at enormous speed. Salsa dancing is now commonly included nowadays amongst traditional Latin American Dancing and is becomingly increasingly popular over the last few years. Most people want to look good as well and feel good and so many are growing discontent with simply "doing one's own thing", "shaking one's stuff", "Headbanging", "pogo'ing" etc.
Salsa music is increasingly used in a number of films, TV programs & commercials as well as growing in popularity generally. Popular musicians include salsa music amongst their repertoire such as Michael Jackson's "You Rock My World", Sting's "Fragile" and Cold Play's "Clocks" to name but 3. Salsa music varies across the world and new clubs are starting up all over the place every month. Consequently many dance styles have developed to suit the music. For example Mambo was originally a Cuban dance, but in New York, it is now a totally different dance which has become very popular across Europe in the last 5 - 10 years. The most common styles in London are now L.A. (also known as New York On1) and the original Cuban, but there are a few who prefer the Miami or Colombian styles whilst New York style is rapidly growing in popularity. Check out the Salsa Styles link & Video Clips link to see the differences.
Learning to dance cha cha cha will help you improve your salsa styling & timing too. The music is a little slower & will therefore help enable you to learn New York Style Mambo which is becoming increasingly popular amongst many salseros & salseras.
If you are not sure what Cha Cha Cha is or dancing Salsa On2, (or other Latin American dances), then why not click here or on one of these other the Dance Video Clips? Of course, you may look just for fun anyway if you like...
There are quite a few dances which seem to be returning to fashion again thanks to dance programs on the television such as "Strictly Come Dancing" etc. BestSalsa will concentrate on teaching moves which can be used on the social dance floor rather than choreographed moves which would be unuseable with anyone other than a regular partner.