Oakville/Mississauga On-going classes for 2011
Time
Course Description
Sundays
3:30 to 5pm
Sundays
2:30 to 3:30pm
and
6 to 7pm
Level 1 Salsa - group class
6 More turn patterns
Latin body motion
Foot speed
Balance
Note - You need to take at least one Intro class
before you can join the Level 1 class
Intro Class
Basic salsa foot pattern and 6 variations of it.
And the first 3 turn patterns
Note - This class is by appointment only.
Levels one and two are recycled. So you can start any time.
Level 2 Salsa - group class
More turn patterns
Spins
Styling
Sundays
5 to 6pm
Note - More classes are added before 2:30 and after 6:00 when needed.
The Salsa Dance Floor
Wedding and event performances available.
The video above is a latin ballroom performance
clip done by a competitve amateur couple.
It is not salsa dancing.
Pricing (all prices subject to hst)
A Card - 10 classes - $15/class x 10 equals $150
Classes are 1 1/2 hours. That equals $10 per hour.
The card is valid for 14 weeks.
After September 1st, for 16 weeks.
Privates for one or two people are $75.00
Drop-ins are $22.12
Methods of payment
Cash or cheques only
Dance partners not required.
Singles are welcome!
Group and private salsa lessons
Services Provided
- group salsa lessons
- private salsa lessons
in home - studio - office - school
- corporate salsa lessons
- dance lessons for parties
- wedding first dance classes
- private groups
Gift certificates available
Open every Sunday except holidays
Mission Statement
To create a lively environment of music and dance where people learn how to connect
and to remind people that it's part of everyone's purpose in life to just have fun.
Who is The Salsa Dance Floor?
We teach based on three key priciples
1 - You're learning a new way to move and in the very beginning, you need to learn it at your own speed, not someone ele's. For this reason we start everyone off on their own in what we call Intro classes. Only one to three people per class.
2 - Dancing well has to do with tension control. Understanding this only comes when you learn what that means in terms of you controling your own tension. This can only be learned on your own. This is also why we start everyone off on their own in our Intro classes.
3 - Salsa is danced as simple patterns strung together. We teach this way...simple short patterns, easy to learn and execute, not complicated choreographies.
How this all came about
The Salsa Dance Floor started as a result of personal fustrations I was having with the way I was experiencing dance lessons, at what I considered to be the best salsa dance schools in the Toronto area. The instructors were great dancers and the lessons seemed to go well in the studio, but it wasn't transferring onto the dance floor outside of the class. That's a serious problem.
Salsa is danced as a series of random dance turn patterns strung together. If you know several simple patterns and string them together, you have what looks like intricate dance sequences. It's easy to do with some good lessons and practice.
The dissatisfaction I was having with the lessons was that we were being taught long sequences of patterns...or small choreographies. That's not something you can expect a social dancer to remember. Besides that, we were told to go onto the dancefloor and break the choreography into smaller bits and re-arrange the bits with the other patterns we already knew, off the top of our heads. It was to much information for me. And most of the dancers I chatted with about salsa lessons in general were experiencing the exact same fustration.
At the same time as this I was exercising using Russian methods of training. The Russian method said that dynamic movement was really simple movements strung together that visually looked complicated but was simple when done with knowledge and experience. They taught this way, small bits of information at a time. They also pointed out that the key to movement with a partner is mostly about you controlling your own tension (most people are completley unaware of this and how tightly they hold themselves). It sounded just like salsa to me!
So after running some tests by giving out free lessons using the Russian methods...and achieving great success, I decided to open the school. I named my salsa teaching method Sistema, after the Russian method of fitness training which is called Systema.
Whether you are an experienced dancer or completely new to salsa, take only one of our Intro classes to see for yourself the difference between learning something dynamic the stardard complex way versus our method of learning using our Sistema Method of instruction.
What do the students have to say?
I would highly recommend this to anyone - well worth the time
Megan
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Rocco makes learning salsa easy and enjoyable. Thanks to his emphasis on simple basics and building on what you already know. I find it very easy to learn this way.
Sabu
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Class is always fun - while burning calories!
Maeghan
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From TSDF - Dancing is about comfort. That's it! Our main goal is to make it easy and comfortable for you. So getting through the salsa dance patterns you learn is easy and enjoyable. It's all about having fun!
