It’s an iconic dance. Even if you’ve never tried it – or ever seen it danced live – you know what it is. Everyone does. We’ve seen it in movies, we can identify the music, and we know its reputation. Romantic, passionate… intense. Sadly, although Alain and I have often sensed people are curious about […]
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Happy New Year to all our friends (and to those we haven’t quite met yet). What are your plans for 2023? Do you make New Year’s resolutions? If so, do you… keep them? 😉 Here’s our hot tip for ensuring that, this year, you keep those promises; Resolve to do things that bring you joy!
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Great news. Cheryl Williams and Alain Guillot are teaching a West Coast Swing group class in January 2023. West Coast Swing is a modern/versatile kind of Swing. Sophisticated, urban, or romantic, you can do it all. The classes will be on Mondays from 8 to 9 pm at Espace des Arts. The price will be
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Teaching a West Coast Swing class with Cheryl Williams. It was an amazing class with 20 students. The last group class of the year. Students of all ages and nationalities. We taught the class in English and French. This a beautiful example of Montreal’s diversity.Next month we will start teaching Salsa 2 and Argentine tango.
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Do you want to introduce your high school students in Montreal to something different, healthy, fun, and cultural? Have you considered Salsa classes (or any other Latin dance) as a way of exposing them to other cultures? Or how about promoting physical activity through swing dancing? Do you consider dancing a creative outlet for self
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This step, the inside turn, is the transition step from beginner one salsa to intermediate salsa.
Salsa 1, class 9, Winter 2022, Inside turns Read More »
This is a simple routine in which we put together some of the right turns and cross body lead we learned in the previous class.
Salsa 1, class 7, Fall 2022, Cross body lead and right turn combo Read More »
In this video, we introduced the notion of right turns. The leaders do their turns on 1-2-3The follower do their turns on 5-6-7 There are many ways to guide and follow the right turn. We explore other ways of doing the turn next week.
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In this video, we did the basic, salsa step and the back step in open and close position. You can join us for the remaining 11 weeks, every Thursday at 7:30 pm. Contact us for more information. Here is some music to practice
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In this class we did the basic East Coast Swing stepWe added a waist roll for the leader andan under arm pass for the follower. This was the last class of a four week introduction to partner dancing dance session. Our next session will be Salsa 1, starting September 15, 2022. For more information chick
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