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Come and experience how fun and easy it is to learn Latin dances like Salsa and Bachata. Meet your friendly and highly skilled instructor, Dr. Stephen Jackson. Try out one of our classes while you meet new friends and fellow dancers who care about learning dance just as much as you. We are a safe, welcoming community that dances and learns together in a stress-free environment. See the Salsa and Bachata for Everyone class descriptions for more information on what we will learn together.
Bachata is a romantic Latin dance originating in the Dominican Republic. In this Bachata series we will cover the timing, footwork, and partnering fundamentals that are essential to experience incredible connections in social dance settings. The music is vibrant, inspiring, and full of percussive energy and heartfelt instrumentals. You will learn drills, patterns, and styling that you can instantly use alone or with a partner as you dive deeper into this amazing dance. The class is perfect for you,new and beginner dancers who have little or no experience. Simultaneously, more advanced dancers will revisit these principles, but will be given additional nuances to improve precision, efficiency, and enhance their creativity.
We will learn the following:
•Connection: Framing, points of contact, handholds, tension/resistance, non-contact communication, hearing the music (musicality)
•Partnering/Patterns: Basic step, right turn, left turn, open connection, cross body lead, under-arm passes, inside turn, outside turn, and intertwining these components to create dance combinations/patterns.
•Footwork/Timing: Hip/knee/foot control, in-place timing, the basic, side-step, crossed side-step, right turn, broken left, double cross, chord beat steps, triplets, etc.
14 participants
