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 for 3 hours in the roads opposite the venue and free after 6pm further down the road.
Purple = up to 3 hours free
Yellow = pay at meter
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
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Like: Hazel Ashleen Squibb, Madalina Maria, DJunior Antonio Spencer, Belinah Shashe, Mihai Șerban
Philip Wake What a fabulous Halloween party – hardly stopped dancing all night and some of the costumes were really impressive. I wore a mask but as usual found it uncomfortable and spent most of the night wearing it on my forehead. Half way through a flash mob came on and performed a well choreographed zombie dance with Kasia leading many of her salsa family who had each attended at least one of the three rehearsals she ran in the last 3 weeks. They followed well and the featured solos were brilliant. Thank you Sarah, Nadia, Dana, María, Madalina, Miss Fast & Furious, Renata, Tara, Janina, Zana and many other ladies for my lovely dances tonight and thanks to DJ Hazel for keeping us dancing all night to her motivational music. ❤️
Love: Kasia Rajca; Like: Hazel Ashleen Squibb, Madalina Maria, María Dolores Arcoiris Solyluna, Tara Sharif
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Salsa Solent Portsmouth compilation video speeded up with silent film music:
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