Kasia Rajca, who is an amazing salsa dancer & teacher, provides a salsa social at The Art Coffee House in Portsmouth every Tuesday which include Cuban dancing lessons in the rueda format. See the Salsa Solent Portsmouth facebook page for more information about this and other events presented by Kasia .
Venue: Art Coffee House at 1-13 Lord Montgomery Way, Portsmouth, PO1 2AH
Parking: There’s plenty of free parking in the roads opposite the venue.
Times:
- 7:30pm Beginners lesson with some rueda
- 8:15pm Intermediate/Advanced lesson
- 9pm Social dancing
- 11pm Close
Entrance: £3 for social dancing only – £5 including the lessons.
Rueda de Casino is a fun format for learning Cuban salsa moves. All Cuban moves have a name so that when the teacher calls out the name of the next move for all couples in the circle to follow, everybody knows what to do – in theory at least. For example Dame Uno means: “Move on anti-clockwise to the next lady!” and Dame Dos means: “Move on to the 2nd lady!”. The lesson begins with a demonstration and practice of each move to be used in the lesson for those who are new to rueda and as a reminder to the others. A list of moves for beginner may be found at wikibooks.org/wiki/Rueda_de_Casino/Moves_for_Beginners and comprehensive list of moves may be found at salsaclass.co.uk/rueda_calls.htm
FACEBOOK COMMENTS – click a date to see the original post
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Philip Wake What a fantastic salsa party at 113 The Art Coffee House hosted by Kasia featuring the motivational music of DJ Hazel – didn’t stop dancing for two hours! I haven’t danced with Kasia for ages so it was exquisite to have three in one night including the last dance which was our joint favourite salsa track. I haven’t danced with Hazel for a while either so it was good to sneak one in towards the end. Looks like I’ll be going salsa dancing 6 nights a week from now on . . . as I used to from 2004 to 2008 during my early years of salsa dancing before I got married to my 2nd wife . . .
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