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Salsa Kernow

Salsa Kernow

Salsa classes for beginners and more experienced dancers - every Wednesday evening at the Edgemoor Hotel

Contact: Ian Cox
Telephone: 01626 833175
Mobile: 07801 889463
Email: ian.cox@gomango.co.uk
Website: www.salsakernow.com

Our class night in Bovey Tracey is held on Wednesdays aat the Edgemoor Hotel, which is situated just outside Bovey on the Hay Tor road. The venue has loads of parking, a fantastic dancefloor and a comfortable lounge bar - the perfect evening out!

Class Programme

6.15-7.00 - Absolute Beginners intro session (£3) join this class if you know nothing!! We'll teach you the basic footwork and we'll introduce partnerwork. If you are ok with this class then you can step into the Beginners course (at 7.00 pm) - if you do the 7 pm class then the 6.15 class is FREE (or you can wait for the first in the 6 week course set - dates below) 

7.00-8.00 - Beginners course class (£5 per class but we ask you to pay for all the classes remaining in the 6 week set - pro-rata - this helps us manage the numbers and gender balance). If you know nothing(!) you can do the our 6.15 class and then join this one at no extra cost (see notes above)

8.00-8.45 - Technique level drop-in class (£5 per class) - you need to be able to do what we teach in the 7 pm class - i.e. be comfortable with clockwise turns and cross-body lead - if you're unsure just join that 7 pm class or talk to us for a checkout!

8.45 - 9.00 - Practice time, yeh right...

9.00 - 10.00 - Improver level drop-in class (£6 per class)  - you need to be pretty comfortable with most of what we teach in our Technique class (see info on content below) - make sure you are ok with Cross Body leads with inside and outside turns, leaders and followers clockwise turns, half and full crucifix and changing places (breakback) moves - you can probably blag the rest... or, preferably, learn fast!

10.00-10.30 - Practice time

Join us afterwards for wiond-down drink in the bar!

Attend any two classes for £7
Student concessions: £4 per class, £6 for any two classes

* Book your Beginners course place(s) online today by clicking here

Confused? Yeh, so are we!  Email ian.cox@gomango.co.uk or call/text 07801 889463 for more information!

Dates for the six week Beginners' course:

Wednesday January 6th to Feb 10th 2010

Most weeks in the past we've been lucky with the balance of male/female participants - but if you are able to encourage friends to take part (particularly males!) please do!

Course and class content

Beginners course (you can join anytime - but read the notes above!):

Wk 1 - The basics - salsa music, the basic step and an introduction to partnerwork
Wk 2 - Cross Body lead
Wk 3 - Clockwise turns
Wk 4 - Reprising the Cross Body Lead and Clockwise turn
Wk 5 - Half Crucifix
Wk 6 - Pattern building and dance quality 

Technique drop-in classes - the cycle

Wk 1 - Cross body lead with inside and outside turns
Wk 2 - Clockwise turns for leader and follower
Wk 3 - Half crucifix with variations
Wk 4 - Followers' left turn
Wk 5 - Full crucifix and variations
Wk 6 - 'Round the World' turn and variations
Wk 7 - Changing places
Wk 8 - Pull through
Wk 9 - Basic copas

After week 9 of the Technique we return to Wk 1 - you can join this drop-in class at any stage in the cycle. We reserve the right to slightly alter the above schedule as we sometime forget what we taught the previous week, but it tends to come good in the end!

Improver drop-in classes - random and creative patterns!

In addition to learning traditional and original patterns this drop-class will take you deeper into copas, pull throughs, flick turns, cross body lead variations and much more!

General class notes: How to find the venue: From the A38 take the A382 towards Bovey Tracey. Turn left at the second roundabout (B3387) yowards Haytor and Widecombe. After half a mile, fork left towards Haytor and you will find us a quarter of a mile from there on the right. There is ample car parking in the grounds.

Teachers: Ian and Julie - we've been teaching salsa together for over 5 years now - we're both immersed in dance - most evenings we're either teaching salsa, attending salsa dancenights, or attending tango workshops and milongas.

Our teaching style is reasonably informal but we pay a lot of attention to good technique (even if that means we may simplify a turn pattern to make sure people are dancing the basics right).

We provide a really sound mix of information for both leaders and followers - there are too few teaching partnerships in the Region able to offer this level of teaching input for both partners in the dance. 

We don't teach Intermediate classes on the grounds that most people in the Region rarely, if ever, dance to that level - but you will find that our Improver class varies in difficulty from week to week and every so often we'll drop an Intermediate level element into the Improver pattern - so don't assume that our classes will be undemanding!

We also manage the content of our classes so if you are less experienced you won't feel out of your depth - we are pretty good at helping people to work to a specific level in class and we don't push you to cover the whole pattern unless you are comfortable with it.

We are also not pattern-driven - we believe it is much more important to get the basics right - and that means we focus on good technique, effective communication between partners, smoothness in the dance and an awareness of the space you occupy on the dancefloor and the flow of one well-executed move into another.

Salsa is a showy dance - so our teaching is geared towards ensuring that you and your dance partner are able to really enjoy the dance as well as being able to put on a good show for anyone who happens to be watching!

Please note that during our classes we call for regular partner changes - these are important to ensure that your dancing develops properly (and it's a sociable approach to the evening).

Tel: 01626 833175
Mobile: 07801 889463
Web: www.salsakernow.com



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