Salsaville Dance Studios

Salsaville Dance Studios of Boulder, Colorado will be offering up to seven salsa dance courses starting September 6th.

• Level I - Intro to Salsa Dancing — * Boulder only *
  The famous "Intro to Salsa" class for everyone who wants a solid intro to the world of dancing salsa. After just four weeks, you'll know how to dance salsa! And you'll be ready to start going out and having fun in the salsa clubs of Boulder and Denver.

• Level II - Advanced-Beginner Salsa Dancing — * Boulder only *
  The next step in becoming a proficient salsa dancer. After this class, you'll have mastered all the basics, and will be ready to start some intermediate level moves.

• Level III - Intro to Intermediate Level Salsa Dancing — * Denver only *
  In this class, you will learn all of the fundamental and critical elements that will enable you to dance at the intermediate level. We will learn how to do the cross body lead with left and right turns and several sweetheart variations.

• Level IV - Intermediate Level Salsa Dancing — * Boulder only *
  The first of the upper end classes. In this class we will learn more of the most often used moves in the clubs, technique for leading and following, and several new and fancy combinations.

• Level V - Advanced-Intermediate Salsa Dancing — * Boulder and Denver *
  For those who have been dancing salsa for a long time and want a real challenge: fancy combinations, a few dips, twists, drops, and some advanced techniques.

• Cuban IV or V - Cuban Casino Fundamentals or Advanced-Intermediate (depending on who signs up) —* Boulder only *
  Cuban salsa!: This is a great time to explore the "other half" of the salsa dancing world. It's still the same beat, the same 1,2,3, pause, but it has a very different feel, and a different set of turn patterns than the regular style salsa -- a great way to add what you can do on the dance floor!
  This class will include learning some Rueda de Casino (dancing with multiple partners in a big circle while passing partners.) We will mostly focus on Cuban-style partner dancing ("Casino"), and, in time as we gain some competence in Casino, we will start to incorporate more and more of "Rueda de Casino."

• The classes will progress from week to week.
• You can pay in person at the first class (on a space available basis).
• Any class is subject to cancellation if less than 12 people register. However, this has occurred only three times in the last ten years.

Kakes Studios: 2115 Pearl St. in Boulder (behind "Boulder Mountain Futons" store)

Pearl Street Studios: 2126 Pearl St. in Boulder (just behind Snarf's)

DanzArtZ Studios: 520 Cherokee St. in Denver (just a few blocks from Broadway and 6th Ave.)

Basic level salsa classes
Salsa, Level I – Introduction to Salsa
Salsa, Level II – Advanced-Beginner
Salsa, Level III – Intro to Intermediate Level
     – each class normally taken once before advancing to the next level

Higher level salsa classes
Salsa, Level IV – Intermediate
Salsa, Level V – Advanced-Intermediate
Salsa, Level VI – Advanced
     – each class to be taken multiple times before advancing to next level
     – material is always unique in successive repetitions of these classes

For Cuban Salsa classes
Cuban Salsa, Level IV: Cuban Casino Fundamentals (to be taken after completing at least Salsa, Level I & II, and preferably Level III.)
Cuban Salsa, Level V: Cuban Casino, Advanced-Intermediate
Cuban Salsa, Level VI: Cuban Casino, Advanced

For a further explanation of the levels and to help you determine which class is best for you, please click here.

If you can make at least three of the four sessions, I recommend signing up, as you will still be able to learn pretty much everything taught in the class.
If you can make only one or two of the sessions, please contact me first to see if it makes sense for you to join the class. ($15 to drop in on a class.)

No problem! You can sign up as a couple or as an individual. In fact, most people sign up as individuals.
During the class we constantly rotate partners, so you will be dancing with everybody.

In this case, please contact me, and we can try to determine what class is best for you.
Also, you could take a "catch-up private lesson" to quickly bring you up to the level of the class that you would like to take.

Comfortable clothing and slick bottom soled shoes. A shoe with a slick bottom is a shoe that doesn't stick hard on a wooden floor -- avoid new sneakers or hiking boots! Any leather soled shoe will work just fine.