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After Salsa Dance Class For Spanish Club at Local High School
After Salsa Dance Class For Spanish Club at Local High School
My name is Sean Youn - the founder and principal dance instructor/choreographer of Cleveland Salsa Passion. I started dancing salsa since early 2000s. I became an enthusiastic ballroom dancer a few years earlier. I was thirsty for lots of social dancing, and I was involved in also swing dancing, hustle and Westcoast swing. Throughout the early 2000s, I started going to local salsa clubs. I think it was about 2005 when I saw a friend and a lady visiting from Florida dancing salsa, I realized that it was different from the salsa I was doing. It involved lady's beautiful turns and it looked really beautiful and stylized. I learned that it was LA style salsa. Even though I had pretty good background in all styles of ballroom and Latin dancing, I decided that I need to learn that specific style. It was around 2008 - 2009 that I wanted to become very good at it. After a few more years of intensive learning and practicing, I started to teach salsa classes locally. Salsa dancing became my passion.
What is it like to be involved in salsa dancing? I was at Granada in Los Angeles, CA. This is one of the most popular dance hall where hundreds of salsa dancers in Los Angeles area dance the night away on weekend nights. I had so much fun dancing the salsa, and as a matter of fact, I was going out every night of the week to dance everywhere in Los Angeles area. Every night of the week, I was visiting different salsa clubs, and I was having fun dancing every night during that week while I was visiting LA. As a matter of fasct, I took the liberty of recording the video of some other dancers while I was there.
This scene happens almost every night, and everwhere in the world in most of the major cities now. Imagine a night of fun and exciting dancing with other dancers or your special one at a local salsa night club! ......You will be dancing to the beat of Latin-inspired rhythms. Throughout a night at the salsa club, dancers move their hips to exciting beat of the drums. You will be mingling with many people who have the same hobby and passion as you. At the end of the night, you may be exhausted but you will be all smiling and happy that you had a great fun night. You will be thinking, 'I just can't wait till I come out for another night of salsa dancing'.......
Sean and Alana during a dance performance in Chagrin Falls, OH
After Salsa Dance Class For Spanish Club at Local High School
Sean Youn dancing a show salsa dance with Meihla Petroff at an local art event.
We teach club style salsa dance as well as other popular club dances - Bachata/Merengue/Kizomba. So the forms and moves we teach are the style that are familiar to other social dancers. You can use what you have learned in salsa clubs or any social settings, and most of people will be able to recognize this style, and will be able to dance with you even though you have never danced with them before.
Although often dancing on-1 style is interchangeably called LA style salsa, "LA style salsa", in our opinion, has its own characters, such as LA-snap out, and baskets, and lady's travelling turns. So one can dance on-1, but dance without any turns, or with lots of mambo or staccato characters, thus such dancing won't reflect true LA style salsa. LA style salsa was started by Vazquez brothers in Los Angeles, California. LA-style salsa is characterized by ladies' (and men's) beautiful spins, dancing in a slot, as well as flash dips, and tricks for competitive style of dancing. In this style, the leader dances on 1 (which means man steps forward on 1), and is the preferred salsa style in most of the U.S. except in New York and surrounding areas. Example of LA style salsa --->by Cristian Oviedo and Carolina Cerisola
We focus on teaching "social dancing" of Latin club dances. Although you probably have seen many "Dancing with Stars" or "So You Think You Can Dance" type of fantastic performances, the most popular form of salsa-bachta-kizomba are "social dancing" in clubs or socials.
I hope you understand that show or performance are mostly "choregraphed", and practiced thoroughly beforehand, although some are improvised.
Social dancing is, on the other hand, done impromtu to the music that is played on the spot, with a partner, and cannot be choreographed in advance. Therefore, the key dancing skills involve leading and following skills.
Our goal is primarily to encourage and teach dancers to learn to dance strictly by lead and follow techniques (our class is named "Strictly Salsa - LA Style". Is this a coincidence?). "Dancing beautifully" takes lots of time invested in learning and practice.
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