Local salsa dancing: Los Angeles Salsa & Bachata Dancing Calendar: Events, Latin Clubs, Classes

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February 19, 2023
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Salsa groups | Meetup

Largest Salsa groups

1
The Salsa Room
18,248 Salsa Roommates | Arlington, USA
TSR TYSONS
Organized by TSR TYSONS
TSR TYSONS
Organized by TSR TYSONS
2
The Best Stuff To Do In New York City
15,765 Members | New York, USA
Natalie
Organized by Natalie
Natalie
Organized by Natalie
3
Fun Salsa Bachata Barcelona
12,399 Salseros Bachateros | Barcelona, Spain
Alberto Plaza Campos
Organized by Alberto Plaza Campos
Alberto Plaza Campos
Organized by Alberto Plaza Campos
4
New York Social Dance Parties & Classes Meetup
11,844 Dancers | New York, USA
Brian BT
Organized by Brian BT
Brian BT
Organized by Brian BT
5
BCN Free Salsa, Bachata & Kizomba For Multicultural People
11,635 cracks de la salsa | Barcelona, Spain
Jorge Moreno
Organized by Jorge Moreno
Jorge Moreno
Organized by Jorge Moreno
6
Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba, Zumba Choreographies and Tandems!!
11,358 everyday’s salsa dancers | Barcelona, Spain
Jorge Moreno
Organized by Jorge Moreno
Jorge Moreno
Organized by Jorge Moreno
7
Austin Salsa Dance Meetup
10,244 Salseros | Austin, USA
Fawn
Organized by Fawn
Fawn
Organized by Fawn
8
Atlanta Social friends
10,203 Atlanta friends | Atlanta, USA
Mike
Organized by Mike
Mike
Organized by Mike
9
FREE Salsa & Bachata Dancing Classes in Melbourne!
9,906 Salsa beginners | Melbourne, Australia
Salsa Foundation
Organized by Salsa Foundation
Salsa Foundation
Organized by Salsa Foundation
10
GO PARIS by Konobiwan Paris Events
9,825 GoParis | Paris, France
kevin75
Organized by kevin75
kevin75
Organized by kevin75

Newest Salsa groups

Salsa and Bachata Dancing in Prague
21 Members
Started Dec 2 in Prague, Czech Republic
Let’s Dance Meetup Lagos
6 Members
Started Nov 29 in Lagos, Portugal
Modesto Dancing Meetup Group
24 Members
Started Nov 29 in Modesto, USA
Gretna Latin Dance Meetup Group
17 Members
Started Nov 23 in Gretna, USA
San Rafael Dance Lessons Meetup Group
10 Members
Started Nov 22 in San Rafael, USA
Miami Tuesday Night Dance Class and Dancing at the Anderson
54 Members
Started Nov 19 in Miami, USA

Salsa, Bachata Classes in Washington, DC

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Next cycle of 4-week series begins: the week of 1/9. Use calendar to select future dates. ONLINE RESERVATION IS REQUIRED FOR EVERY CLASS YOU ATTEND! Five hour cancellation policy on group classes. A $5 no show fee or loss of credit will apply 30 min after the class has started. We have a non-refundable policy. YOU MUST SIGN UP ONLY FOR CLASSES AT YOUR LEVEL! See Levels, book a consultation or consult with your teacher before going up a level.

Salsa with Silvia is THE PLACE TO BE. Whether you’re looking to improve your dancing, rent their beautiful studio for your private event, or bring your kids for an experience. You will leave feeling satisfied and happy that you took the step to come in. There is a reason this studio is the #1 Latin Dance studio in the DMV. You can feel the love that was put into the studio from starting out in just a basement to two studios! The staff is extremely friendly and helpful. The teachers are patient, understanding, and energetic.

Salsa with Silvia is more than a dance studio. Lots of magic happens there. You’ve got all the basics- amazing instructors, good variety of classes in style and level, a professional business, and a safe and reliable environment. In addition, you learn how dancing is about much more than just moving your body. By joining the studio you enter a community, so you meet amazing people and make new friends. The owner Silvia is always engaged and she is always willing to help.

My partner and I came here for our first private salsa lesson. I was a little anxious as I have no dance experience/rhythm and also wasn’t sure how they’d handle two men learning two dance together. Our instructor, David, was absolutely awesome. He didn’t miss a beat (..) and had such an easy way of interacting with us. He made even a nervous nelly such as myself feel calm and confident. The studio was also very nice and modern. We could not have had a better experience with Silvia’s, and will be back for another lesson from David soon!

My fiance and I wanted to learn how to dance before our wedding, and we were fortunate to have Jason Potell as an instructor. Jason helped us develop choreography that matched a song we loved, and we had lots of fun working on it. The other great thing was that he helped us figure out our own style, and coached us in a way that enabled us to dance better as a couple, rather than trying to get us to follow a prescriptive routine. Thanks to Jason, we learned a lot, and we also had a blast doing our first dance as husband and wife.

In Irkutsk, salsa, bachata and merengue are really taught – so that you can dance at parties – in three clubs: La Palma, Latinа Style, Social Dance Club. The question of who leads there, perhaps, should be answered – all teachers are local, it is unlikely that their names will tell you anything, especially if you have not been to salsa festivals in Krasnoyarsk or to salsa Mayovka in Tomsk. Unfortunately, in Irkutsk, as well as beyond the Urals in general, there are no salsa teachers of the level of Marcos Fernandos, who is well known to Irkutsk residents for master classes. In my opinion, the best way to find a school is to look like classes and see what and how they teach. One-time class passes can be purchased at any school, and at SDC, the first class is free for everyone. If we talk about the level of teaching, then salsa appeared in Irkutsk a long time ago, back in the last century – earlier than in any of the Siberian cities, so they teach us well, and this is evidenced by how our people dance at festivals
- SBT are “sharpened” for performances – at competitions, tournaments or holidays. Therefore, the main thing in them is entertainment. As a rule, a certain couple learns a certain sequence of movements, perfects it as much as they can, and then presents it to the audience. Changing a partner means a rather long “grinding in” to each other. For such a dance, a certain floor is required – parquet is best, there is a lot of space. Only dancers with very good training can improvise.
  Soul is not danced for the audience – it is danced for the sake of relaxation, for the sake of a holiday, each for himself and for the person who dances with you. The main rule is that everyone should be comfortable, and even better, have fun! Each dance is invited (usually a man), for each dance the invitation is accepted or not accepted. Therefore, in salsa, from the very beginning, they learn to dance with anyone or anyone, that’s why they immediately learn to improvise, to be an individual on the dance floor, that’s why they teach to dance compactly – we dance most often in cafes and restaurants and it’s important to think about neighbors and waiters. Therefore, the relationship in the dance between a man and a woman is different: in salsa, we are not partners in a competition, but a man and a woman are in each other’s hands while the music is playing … it’s hard to explain :o)) Well, soulful dance on tiles and parquet, carpet and linoleum, sand, grass, boards, asphalt… wherever the desire to dance overtook. Actually, in salsa there are quite a lot of people with a ballroom background, of those who realized that he did not need to compete, but he wanted to dance. The differences affect everything: technique, psychology, music.
  - There are no standards for these dances. Everyone dances the way he feels comfortable in accordance with his temperament and character, and therefore everyone is taught differently. But one rule remains the same: the man leads, the woman follows the lead, so after a certain level you can dance with the person you first saw. Various festivals are very popular among salseros – when people come from several dozen cities just to dance with each other. And they dance beautifully. Irkutsk salseros danced with the locals everywhere: Canada, Germany, France, not to mention Moscow, St. Petersburg and Siberian cities!
    There are three main currents in salsa:
    1) Linear salsa Los Angeles (LA) fast, spectacular, dancing to a strong beat of music, technically complex.
    2) Linear salsa New York (NY) – relatively soft, such a European style, in which accents are danced on a weak beat in music, quite complex technically and musically.
    3) Salsa casino (casino) this style came from Cuba, can be danced both in a strong beat and in a weak one, the simplest technically, often includes elements of an afro.
    Two of the Irkutsk schools teach casino, the third mainly teaches New York.
    There are also several styles and trends in bachata, but in Irkutsk it is danced mainly as a slow dance, without emphasis on complexity and technicality.
    - - Europeans who dance bachata outside the Dominican Republic know what is right in music, what can and cannot be done, where are the boundaries of style and are aware of the intricacies of figure building. For a long time they learned the right flow, the right swing, the right plastique. Therefore, their bachata is more choreographic, more systematic and calculated, they take the dance seriously. Some are so serious that they start non-children’s international holivars, distribute those who dance correctly and who do not into different camps.
        Dominicans don’t care how they dance. They are fascinated by the choreography of a moderna bachata dancer visiting the Dominican Republic and touched when a white man tries to dance authentically. He tries – because in order to really dance like the Dominicans, you must first of all treat the dance in the same way, without piety, without cultivating a single correct style, forgetting that music can be counted. And above all, local dancers never make dance the main occasion of any event, be it a festival, a party or a meeting with friends.
        But we dance the way we dance because, unlike the Dominicans, we all learned it. We studied at dance schools, where they explained to us how to do it and how not to. And where very little attention is paid to the most important thing, to what the majority came to dance for – the pleasure of dancing, improvisation, attention to the person with whom you are dancing. To a person, girl or man, and not a partner or partner, from whom you expect the correct conduct or execution of figures.
        We have a lot to learn from the Dominicans: ease of attitude to dance and the surrounding reality, the ability to find your own unique style within two or three basic steps. But, unlike them, the majority of dance school visitors are looking for, in addition to new communication, something completely different – an interesting hobby, an opportunity for self-realization, discovering new possibilities for their body and mind, a variety of figures and footwork, new approaches and interesting theories.