This episode will teach everyone the basic crossbody lead. For most of you, this will be a very essential move to pull-off some of the other complicated combinations. In addition, we add some styling techniques to make your crossbody leads better for both MEN and WOMEN!.
Now that everyone is becoming more experienced with computers, I wanted to give everyone a creative holiday salsa project! About a year ago I created a few salsa music tracks that became very popular with some of our fans and we received several emails asking how any salsero (with a Mac) could make their own. [...]
Since this past weekend was the 8th annual San Francisco Salsa Congress, we thought we’d share some videos from everybody’s favorite event: the Jack and Jill! In this event, dancers are paired up randomly with the goal of entertaining the crowd with the best dancing and funniest moves. In this round, especially the Masters, dancers [...]
This (very short) salsa dancing lesson video will teach you how to perform the salsa dance S-turn into a salsa dance 180. We will first explain what a simple salsa S-turn is and then link it to performing a salsa dance cross body lead with turn into a cross body lead 180. Enjoy the video [...]
Get ready for a rant before you continue. Last night on So You Think You Can Dance, we were treated to the new salsa dance choreographer on the show, Gustavo Vargas (a.k.a Alex Da Silva’s replacement). The performance was a train wreck (see video below). While I think Mollee and Nathan are amazing dancers, I [...]
This week in salsa dancing, we are going back to salsa dance basics and teaching you a salsa dance beginner cuddle wrap combination into a copa (in-and-out) and cross body lead 180. Since this is a intermediate move and we have done other salsa dance lesson videos on the copa and the cross body lead [...]
For a few months now, the FANIA Records salsa music website had been down with a ‘Coming Soon in Fall of 2009′ text. Today, a brand new website has flourished to show salsa music in all of its glory! Given everything we have learn from the history of FANIA Records from the PBS Special: Latin [...]
No matter which political group you may affiliate yourself with, you have to give major ‘props’ to our President for being able to get down with some Latin music, dancing and partying. He will probably be one of the most rhythmically skilled Presidents we’ve had in forever. Make sure you watch the second video: you [...]
One of our good friends, Serena Cuevas from Deseo Dance Co., made a guest star appearance with Cristian Oviedo (another addicted2salsa favorite) at last night’s show of “Dancing With the Stars”. They performed alongside another couple, to a new song called “Tu Conga Bach” by group Tiempo Libre. Great job to Serena and Cristian, […]
This advanced salsa dance video lesson will teach you how to perform short but intricate pattern that we call the cross body lead flick lock combo. It is based on the original DPS lock combo from one of our “old school” salsa dance episodes, but made more advanced by creating a DPS lock with a [...]
If you watched the PBS special of “Latin Music USA” you must have seen the video snippet below. This particular section had a particular effect on me when I watched it. It is Ruben Blades and Willie Colón rehearsing one of Blades first songs with Fania Records called “El Cazanguero”. It was great to see [...]
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frankie najera // January 12, 2006 at 12:40 am |
Links to episodes 2,3, and 4 are not working
Anthony Persaud // January 12, 2006 at 2:10 am |
It should be working now — we are currently moving the website to a different location (host).
Thanks for the look out
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