Salsa-Fleet | Classes

WEDNESDAY NIGHT CLASSES

The Albert Club
47 Albert Street
FLEET
Hampshire
GU51 3RL

Join us on a Wednesday evening for our weekly salsa classes. We run monthly 'absolute' beginners courses, all other classes are on a drop in basis, so feel free to come along and give one of our classes a try. Our expert, friendly salsa teachers 'Jim & Su' will guide you through the classes ensuring you learn the turn pattern well enough, so you can dance it free style later in the evening.

NO partner is required...... All our classes use a rotation system where by everyone in the class moves on one partner after learning a move, in this way everyone gets to practise salsa with each other during the class. This also makes it easier in the free style part of the evening as you will already have met and danced with everyone from your class.

Doors will open at 7:45pm, classes will start at 8:00pm prompt.

CLASS STRUCTURE:
(The evening is structured into four separate classes ran in two time slots)
7:45pm - Doors open
8:00pm - 8:05pm - Salsa warm up for beginners
8:05pm - 8:50pm - Absolute/Experienced beginners classes
8:50pm - 9:00pm - 10 mins. freestyle practise for beginners
9:00pm - 9:05pm - Salsa warm up
9:05pm - 9:50pm - Improvers/Intermediate classes
9:55pm -11:15pm - Free style salsa dancing for all

£7.00 on the door for class & club
Club dancing only is FREE

CLASS CONTENT AND LEVEL GUIDE

Salsa classes at Fleet are taught by our salsa teacher experts Jim Costello and Susan Yeates. We have split the evening into four levels to help every person get the best possible tuition from their weekly lessons. The class guide below will help you understand what should be taught at each level. If you are not sure which class is most suited to your level please ask.

Absolute Beginner (8pm - 8.50pm)
Learning and understanding the basics is very important as everything else you learn in salsa will be built on top of these basics

What you will learn:-

Salsa timing
Basic salsa footwork forward & back, side to side, breaking back, single turns
Basic salsa partnering
Correct partner hold
Correct posture and tension
Basic salsa partnering forward back, side to side, cross body lead, single turns, breaking back

Learning Time (~approx 4 - 6 weeks)

NEXT 4-WEEK BEGINNERS COURSE STARTS: WEDNESDAY 3rd February 2010
To find out more and book a course follow the link

Experienced Beginner (8pm - 8.50pm)
In this class we will learn a more difficult series of sala moves and start to link them together, so the the movement becomes more of a dance. This is still a beginner class so every part of the move will be broken down into simple steps, & the basics will be re-emphasised.

What you will learn:-

Cross body lead with inside turn for lady
Cross body lead with outside half turn for lady
Cross body followed by a break back
Intro.to Spinning Technique
Cross body followed by a single push turn
Double handed push turn
Double handed Cross body Inside turn

Learning Time (~approx 6 - 8 weeks)

Improver (9pm - 9.50pm)
The pace of the improver class will be faster than the beginners classes because the teacher will not be breaking down any of the basic steps, the emphasis will be on learning new moves to complement and add to the moves that you already know, new salsa technique's for executing these moves and a focus on the person your dancing with, your partner and how you can add elements of style to your dancing.

What you will learn:-

Basic Copa, Copa with one and a half turn
Copa with a break back
Touch and Go moves
Intro to Ladies styling
Spinning technique
Arm locks, arm throws, flicks
Cross body lead followed by double spin

Learning Time (~approx 10 - 16 weeks)