by Shulagh Jacobs | Jun 8, 2019 | Out And About, Salsa Music, Social Salsa Dancing
I think it’s time to start a coalition against dancing Salsa to non-Salsa music in the clubs. There is a big trend in some of the local Salsa venues to play a lot of RnB and Soul. I say a trend – it’s been going a long time as some of it is actually the music we...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Mar 25, 2018 | Salsa Music
Imagine the Queen was visiting your town. Even if you didn’t read the newspapers, you would know. You would know because the shops would dress their windows differently, people would put flags up and flowers everywhere. The nearer it got to the visit, the more obvious...
by Shulagh Jacobs | May 2, 2017 | Salsa Music
Guys… You’ve probably experienced this scenario: You lead your partner onto the floor. You get ready to start your Basic. And then you realise. There is no “one”. In fact there’s no beat at all. The music is just...
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....
by Shulagh Jacobs | Sep 26, 2016 | Salsa Music
If you’ve ever asked a teacher or advanced dancer how to improve your musicality, the most likely (and in many ways correct) response, would have been to tell you to go and listen to more Salsa music. This is indeed the missing link and the primary reason most social...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Dec 12, 2015 | Salsa Music, Social Salsa Dancing
The hardest thing in the world is to step out of a comfort zone. So when I was first asked to start DJing regularly for Salsa Machine I wasn’t really sure…I was more interested in developing myself as a teacher, and was enjoying my social dancing...