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Men/Ladies Leading/Following & Styling
Class (cycle class)
• Helps to add more personality to your dancing
• Feeds off of fundamentals learned in our basic
beg. class to transcend your skills to a higher level
• Teaches how to use your body more effectively
in order to feel and look better when dancing
• Teaches you how to incorporate footwork and
turn patterns to your everyday social dancing
Ladies’ portion of class
• Aids ladies who are going from a basic beginner
to Adv/Beg. level, for ladies who have already completed
at least one cycle of Sunday’s Ladies Styling/Spinning
class. This class helps to execute basic footwork and
partner work with various styling and body
movement, to be used in your overall dancing
• Routines are broken down as a whole with basic
movements such as body rolls and head whips
Men’s portion of class
• Teaches the gentlemen to execute all footwork
on men’s timing (breaking back on 1-2-3) with
overall body and arm movement
• Required to be at an Adv. Beg. level or higher
(see Adv Beg. section for more details)
This class is designed to help advanced beginner/Intermediate
male students to develop their own sense of style and
expression as effortlessly as possible. We accomplish
this by way of introducing the dancer to concepts that
will make him become more aware of how he can move his
body with greater flexibility, ease and less tension.
Please Note: this class
must be taken along with classes on your respective
levels as part of our dance program – Adv Beg.
Or Intermediate Wednesday class and Sunday Styling/Spinning
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Tuesday – Beginner classes from 7pm-9pm [back
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Basic Beginner (cycle class) - 1st level class
for beginner and raw beginners
• Teaches the overall fundamentals of dancing/listening
to Salsa music
required to enroll within 1 month of each cycle’s
start date and required to purchase our Basic Level
DVD as part of your registration
into our classes, in order to help you progress at
a faster rate and practice at home - a $25 first-time
registration fee will be charged
which will cover the cost of the DVD
• No prior experience or dance training required
There will be always be 2 instructors on the premises
to cater to the different learning abilities of our
students. The class is separated into 2 sections, Section
A for students who began with the cycle and Section
B for students who did not join at the beginning of
the cycle, who joined within the above-mentioned 1 month
grace period. Section B recaps most of what was covered
at the start of the cycle, things like timing fundamentals
and basic footwork/partner work. Thereafter, based on
their progress, students from Section B are moved into
Section A. Section B is also for students who need to
review anything they may need help in that was covered
during the first few weeks of the cycle. The goal is
join both sections together having caught up the students
from Section B with those of Section A.
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Wednesday – Advanced Beginners
+ Intermediate classes from 7pm-9pm [back
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Adv. Beg. (cycle class) _ 2nd level class
• All students are required to successfully complete
the Basic level class syllabus and know timing and fundamentals
of partner work
• This class is designed to mainly help polish
fundamentals and extend overall knowledge of dancing,
feeding off of what was learned in the Basic Beg. class
• Ladies are required to attend Sunday Styling/Spinning
class in order to be able to complete the partner work
portion of the Adv. Beg. class - learning how to follow
and spin when dancing with a guy. Ladies are recommended
to purchase our very famous Styling/Spinning DVD (see
description for Styling/Spinning class)
Intermediate (cycle class) - 3rd level class
• All students are required to successfully complete
our Adv. Beg. class syllabus and Styling/Spinning syllabus,
which entail, timing, clave concept, music transitions
and overall comfortability with body movement and hand
styling, along with the basic concept of spinning
• Teaches you how to improvise on any dance floor
by way of applying basic fundamentals, with more intricate
footwork and partner work
• Extends knowledge of leading/following and executing
shines while dancing with a partner
• Required to be able to lead and follow in partner
work at an Int. level (see partner work class description)
Please Note: As part
of our dance program, each student should also take
the Adv. Beg. level Ladies Styling/Spinning and Leading/Following
courses, which go hand-in-hand with this course and
are necessary in your development as an Adv. Beg. level
student.
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Thursday – Intermediate Advanced class from 7-9pm [back
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Int. Adv. (cycle class) - 4th level class
• All students are required to complete our Intermediate
level cycle
• This class helps to extend knowledge music’s
overall structure to be able to help you improvise during
any social dance
• This class also covers more intricate combinations
of footwork and partner work to music
• You will learn basic choreography to music chosen
by instructor in class, to help you get a better sense
of how to interpret music while dancing
Must have impeccable timing, clave, transitioning and
know all fundamentals of music and dance taught throughout
our cycles, starting with our basic beginner cycle.
Please Note: As part
of our dance program, each student should also take
the Intermediate level Ladies Styling/Spinning and Leading/Following
courses, which go hand-in-hand with this course and
are necessary in your development as an Intermediate
level student.
Saturday– General class from 4pm –
6pm [back
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General Class (NON-cycle class) All levels
class
• Any and all students can visit this class,
as it caters to all levels, starting from raw beginners
all the way up to the Advance.
• This class has several purposes, from reviewing
the material being taught in the cycle classes throughout
the week, to just coming in to brush up your skills
and get extra practice.
• Beg. - 2 levels - Level 1 for all new students
who did not enroll when the cycle began (no prior experience
needed), and Level 2 for those already taking our basic
beginner class on Tuesdays and are there to practice
and polish their basic skills
• Adv. Beg./Int. - covers material being taught
in our Wednesday class.
• Intermediate - covers material being taught
in our Wednesday Int. class.
• Adv. Should have clear understanding of timing
and music structure (see Int./Adv. level description)
and should be trained and skillful at executing syncopated
steps, faster footwork and intricate turn patterns
There will always be 5 instructors on the premises
to cater to all levels.
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Sunday – Ladies Styling & Spinning – 2 levels
in 1 class from 2–3:30pm [back
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Ladies Styling/Spinning (cycle class) - for
Adv Beg. and Intermediate level females
• Adv. Beg. section
• Incorporates fundamentals of body movement,
isolations and ladies styling to Basic Beg. steps
• Teaches the fundamentals of the world’s
most effective and famous method of spinning developed
by Santo Rico, which helps improves accuracy in spinning,
speed, reaction time and balance while dancing with
a partner
• Required to complete our basic beginner cycle
or have strong knowledge of dancing On2
• Must purchase Styling/Spinning Level 1 DVD
• Intermediate section
• Serves as spin-off to the Adv. Beg. section,
with more intricate styling and body movement combinations
incorporated into Adv. Beg. and Intermediate steps,
combined with multiple turns drills
• Focuses more on executing multiple turns using
the Santo Rico method of spinning, and enhances following
skills by learning how to prep for all different kinds
of leads and signals from the guy, e.g., hand/shoulder
check preps, stop-and-go preps and change of direction
and footwork
• Must purchase Styling/Spinning Level 2 DVD
There are always 2 instructors on the premises with
2 assistant instructors
Please Note: As part
of our dance program, each female student, depending
on their level in this class, should also take the Intermediate
level cycle class and Leading/Following courses, which
go hand-in-hand with this course and are necessary in
your development as an Adv. Beg. and Intermediate level
student.
Sunday
– All Levels Partner Work class 4–5:30pm
– “The Best Partner Work Class in New York
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Partner Work Class (NON-cycle class) - All
levels class
• Serves to practice and improve your fundamentals
of executing partner work on your respective levels,
from Basic Beginner up to Advance
• Serves to provide practice for ladies right
after taking their Styling/Spinning class
• Beg. should aim to learn all p/w fundamentals
and moves, e.g., cross body lead, cross body w/ turn,
Copa cross body lead, open break, Swing, Cross body
lead, Walk-around/Waltz and fundamentals of spinning,
leading and following (see basic beginner syllabus)
• Adv. Beg./Int. – required to know all
basic partner work fundamentals (see beg. desc.)
• Adv. – required to have completed Int
Adv level of dancing and know all of the above
• Ladies should have excellent reaction time and
be able to spin accurately and multiply with precision
and speed, and should be able to follow a guy’s
lead on said level
• Gentlemen should have excellent reaction time
and speed, and be able to improvise on the dance floor
and be accurate with their Spinning and overall lead
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