Salsa -Ladies Styling & Technique Course for Advanced Level

Learn the grapevine in salsa with cross, open, and back steps for advanced styling, including knee accents, upper-body posture, and a round the shop variation to enrich your routine.

Practice the grapevine with music, performing two of each version to reinforce this grapevine technique in the advanced level salsa course.

Master a winding salsa move that blends advanced chest and hip isolation, then smoothly combine front, side, and back positions into a fluid vining sequence with steps and shines.

Learn a dynamic wine in combination: keep a wide stance with chest forward and hips back, then rotate side to side on counts. Practice both sides and explore arm variations.

Master the mumble snap sequence in salsa, starting with a half basic and eight counts, cross over, lift and stretch, then snap to the side with optional arm movements.

Practice the mambo snap to music, performing front-arm and overhead-arm sequences to build rhythm and timing in advanced salsa styling.

Learn to use syncopation to interpret salsa music, applying it to the basic step and variations like hip movement and side cross, with continuous syncopation options.

Practice syncopated steps to music, moving from back basic to side-by-side with a cross, then sacu with syncopation and continuous syncopation.

Perform a compact salsa routine blending learned moves with familiar steps, including weight shifts, wine, arm openings, shoulder movements, grapevine, hip rolls, and a final basic sequence.

Advance your salsa ladies styling and technique by practicing routine 1, part 1 with music, focusing on the first half.

Advance to the second half of the routine with isolations, wine, hip roll, Susie Q, grapevine, body roll, and two travel spins, finishing with front and back views.

Practice routine 1 to music to sharpen salsa choreography and technique for advanced level dancers.

Explore Afro-Cuban rumba, also called rumba blanco or rumba yanbu, as the foundation of Latin music and dance, and see rumba moves in salsa with the klava rhythm.

Learn the basic rumba side basic with afro cuban influence, focusing on knee bounce, hip and chest movement, weight transfer to the outside foot, and relaxed arms.

Learn grounded rumba variations that weave cross and side to front steps, with arm timing and akuna protection, plus a syncopated basics slide to signal go away.

Explore the rumba introduction by practicing to a rumba song for advanced salsa ladies styling and technique.

Explore Afro Cuban dancing, the origin of all Latin music and dance, and learn three orisha-based moves that add strength, flavor, and variety to salsa freestyle.

Practice a quick Afro Cuban movement sequence that emphasizes the upper body before the hips, with shoulders back and chest forward, then step out and drop the chest.

Learn the first Eleggua step in Afro Cuban dance with cross and open footwork, continuous arm swinging, and a grounded, earthy choucha rhythm for advanced salsa styling.

Explore Afro-Cuban movement inspired by Yemaya, embodying the sea goddess with flowing skirt work, arm wafts, torso twists, and rumba-style steps with turns and weight shifts.

Explore Afro-Cuban dance with introduction to Oya, the wind goddess, using warm-up leg and arm movements with a whip, weight shifts, and a serious expression to embody the orisha.

Practice Afro Cuban moves with music, performing each step twice with the basic step in between to build rhythm and technique for advanced salsa styling.

Blend roomba, afro, and salsa into a short routine, guiding you through basic steps, cross, arms up, slides, and a long drag before the rumba introduction.

Practice the beginning bit to music for routine 2, part 1, with Rebecca, focusing on salsa styling and technique.

Master a dynamic salsa routine with Eleggua and Eloqua steps, rotations, and Yemenia turns, emphasizing hip, arm positions, a swing step, and a final slide.

Practice the full salsa routine to music, refining timing and styling in routine 2 under advanced ladies styling and technique.

Explore Pachanga, a style that traveled from Cuba to New York in the 1960s, and fuse Pachanga steps into salsa dancing. Begin with exercises and learn a few basic steps.

Learn hip-driven Pachanga exercises that initiate movement from the hips, coordinate eight-count sequences, then train right-foot movement, weight transfer, and leg pops to build batonga technique.

Learn Pachanga basics with single and double basic steps, hip-forward movement, foot crossing, and weight transfers, demonstrated from the front with clear timing.

Learn to enter the pachanga in salsa by transitioning from the basic step, with counts and footwork for ladies. Practice left-start pachanga entry, advancing your styling and technique.

Shape relaxed arm movements in pachanga, extending and swapping arms as the hips stay forward and the leg pops, creating a cool Batonga look.

Learn two variations of the pachanga walk, focusing on cross step patterns, diagonal turns, orientation, and bending and stretching the legs for stylish salsa styling.

Learn the pachanga walk from the south basic, starting on the right leg with counts one, two, three, five, six, seven, eight, including an optional start on five.

Master the pachanga walk, second variation, with footwork from one to eight, a knee touch with the back leg, and forward hand extensions, transitioning from basic on both sides.

Practice pachanga steps to music, covering doubles, singles, and two walks, with two repetitions of each version and a basic in between. Shorten the steps to improve balance and timing.

Elevate your salsa: master accents with sharp movements, drops, and stops to add dimension and dynamism to your dancing as you learn a few kicks and drops.

Learn a dramatic salsa accent using a half basic step, a drop on five, and a forward hop, with controlled body lean and a return to the basic on seven.

Learn accents with drops and kicks, left down and right down, in a salsa routine that emphasizes timing, leg extension, and arm extension.

Learn to add dramatic drops to the Susie Q in salsa, including timing on counts, cross-over steps, quick knee bends, and optional arm movements.

Master a left hand turn with a drop, starting with a half basic into a left turn, then on eight kick forward and switch facing without dropping your leg.

Learn to execute a return with a round jump into a drop, including timing, leg release, and a rond de jambe drop for right turn accents.

Master Corina's special move blending accents, drops, and kicks through swiveling turns, pachanga move steps, and a dynamic one-two-three sequence.

Advance salsa styling and technique through accents, drops, and kicks practiced to music. Build rhythm, control, and precision with targeted drills.

Master the final salsa routine’s choreography, including Batonga steps, Gwabegar, grapevine, Sacu, Susie Q with a drop, two-step with a shimmy, Mumba, pachanga walks, Gotabaya, Q, and G sequences.

Advance-level salsa dancers explore routine 3 part 1 to music, focusing on ladies styling and technique for advanced level learners.

Move through a swing step and cross over into an oil step with pachanga, then execute a dramatic break, Batonga flares, Cuban elements, spins, shimmy, and a final special move.

Perform routine 3, full practice to music, in the advanced salsa ladies styling and technique course.

Celebrate finishing the advanced salsa course, having learned tricky techniques, new moves and dance styles, with fast choreographies, and revisit sections to master them.