SALSA VALE TODO

SALSAMATICS WORKSHOPS

WEDNESDAY

Episode 3: Salsa Tornillo

June 2, 9, 16, and 23rd of 2010

Tornillos?

So what exactly are Tornillos? This is somewhat of a lost art. More popular in the 30's and 40's, these were danced traditionaly to Son and Son Montunos. This was usually a way for the Man to show off and display his balance, strength and control of his movements for his partner or the people watching. Of course like most artforms it has resurfaced with some very modern twists. We will explore both the physicality and the musicality of Tornillos. We will teach classic tornillo poses as well as more modern tornillos, Ladies Tornillos and we will top it all off with some new Casino vueltas that include Tornillos in them.

4-week progressive workshop series

4 Wednesdays in May 8:30pm till 9:30 pm at Roccopulco: 3140 Mission st. San Francisco

$14/ drop-in, $48 for all 4 sessions

**SPECIAL PRE-REG PRICE, REGISTER BEFORE May 31st AND CLASS IS ONLY $36 FOR ALL 4 SESSIONS*** (call 415-608-6180 to pre-reg)

Schedule:

June 2nd - Tornillo Basico

* Upright Tornillos for the Leaders

* Balance, and the Ladies walk

* Center Connection, direction and movement

* guapo, resbalon, adelante cruz vuelta, deslizamiento lateral, detras cruz vuelta, hombre fuerte

June 9th - Tornillo El Piso

* Tornillos rising and falling

* Balance ,Strength, and Control

* el clasico, hombre volador, pensamiento del hombre, tablon

June 16th - Ladies tornillos

* Tornillos for the Followers

* Balance and leaders posture

* clasica, attitude detras, mujer que piensa, bonita, extension, ballet

June 23rd - Bailas Tornillos

* adding Tornillos to your club dancing and La Rueda

* did I mention Balance, and the musicality of Tornillos

* adding tornillos to existing moves - 70, lasso, pasea

* New vueltas - enchufla y tornillo clasico, para el y para ella, 70 y piernas locas

June 30th - SalsaMatics Sampler

* A sampling from our first 4 SalsaMatics Workshops

* Salsa Apretada (closed position Salsa), Salsa Caminada, Salsa Turnillo, and Salsa Miami

* This class is drop in only. $14 (includes club admission)

THURSDAYS

Episode 2: Salsa Caminada

(enchuflas, paseas, exhibes y vacilias)

June 3rd, 10th, 17th, and 24th of 2010

In our second installment of our SalsaMatics series we will open it up two more distances from our partner. We will also explore and become grounded in our core Casino Salsa movements; enchufla, paseas, exhibes and vacilia. We will examine how we move out of our closed position framework and create a more fluid framework to allow for more freedom of interaction between you and your partner. Participants should be intermediate to advanced Salsa and Salsa Casino dancers and have a working knowledge of these core movements as well as "dile que no". We will be exploring using more advanced movements in your basic turns and how that relates to more complicated figures.

4-week progressive workshop series 4 Thursdays in June

7:00pm till 8:00pm at The Beat in Berkeley, 2560 9th st., Berkeley, CA

$40 for all 4 sessions $12: Drop-In

Schedule:

June 3rd - Salsa Adelante

* Caminado Basico (basics drill in 3 movements incorporating both lead and follow technique and style)

* all about Enchufla y Exhibes, the "enchufla pulse "

* enchufla from gupea and in circa, enchufla doble con alarde, enchufla hook, enchufla con candado, adios con la hermana, doble cero, , la complicada, dos y una, exhibe Usukama, exhibe con alma

June 10th - La Caminada

* Adv. Caminado Drills

* Paseas,and pasea tone

* pasea pa'abjo, pasea pa' arriba, coca-cola pa afuera, la jenny, lasso

June 17th - El Espectaculo

* vacilias y sietes

*3 ways to lead vacilia

* vacilia adelante, vacilon, exhibe doble loca, 7 con coca-cola, 7 no con coca-cola, 7 loca (y complicado)

June 24th - Compound Movements

* quick review of past weeks

* This week we will study patterns that drill the core movements in more complicated ways.

*pasea por al parque, la jenny complicada, chocolate cailente, campana, sabor sabreado

* lead and follow with no hands

We hope you join us as we dance and develop together a style that is uniquely The Bay Area.