by Shulagh Jacobs | Apr 24, 2017 | Uncategorized
Wouldn’t it be great if you could buy confidence… From the supermarket or mail order from Amazon. This Salsa thing would be so much easier. You wouldn’t be scared of messing up. Of making yourself look stupid. The problem is, confidence isn’t constant. It comes...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Apr 23, 2017 | Social Salsa Dancing, Uncategorized
Back in my early days of dancing Salsa, one of my first moments of real, sublime dance floor connection was to this tune… To this day it’s still one of my favourites: I’ll never forget that dance… It was the first time I felt truly in synch...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Apr 20, 2017 | Beginner's Salsa
And what the hell IS it, anyway… Rhythm is just a series of repeated events which occur in a regular pattern. It’s all around you. The sun rising and setting. Horses trotting and galloping. It’s inside you. Your heart beat. Your breathing. Your pulse. So you...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Apr 19, 2017 | Beginner's Salsa, Dancer's Body
People often ask why I focus on the science behind dancing and learning to dance… To me it’s very simple and obvious. Salsa dancing, although both an art and a physical skill, requires complex interactions between brain, body and nervous system. Understand how...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Apr 17, 2017 | Salsa Music, Social Salsa Dancing
When you’ve been dancing a while there’s a word that starts to appear in your vocabulary. That word is musicality. It’s a mystical word because no one really seems able to categorically define it. Yet most would agree that it’s something that all good dancers possess....
