Following on from the Sofa to Salsa Beginner Course, this eight week programme will equip you with more of the techniques, moves and confidence you need to feel at home on the Salsa dance floor.

Where Sofa to Salsa set the foundations, Freeze to Freestyle starts laying down bricks and mortar to expand your repertoire and buid tangible skills which will translate into enjoyable social dances.

Dances which feel fun and connected because they don’t rely on leaders remembering long routines and putting pressure on themselves.

You’ll add new turns to your vocabulary along with more refined techniques to enhance balance and flow.

You’ll increase your repertoire of footwork with some simple combinations and new steps so you can shine in solo work.

Keep It Simple, Stupid!

What you’ll realise is that 95% of what you see more advanced dancers doing on the social dance floor is actually much simpler than you first thought.

It’s mostly variations on a very small number of moves – some of which you know already.

It just looks more complex because of the extra layers of arm styling and frequency of turns.

This course will teach you how to recognise those moves and “join the dots” in your mind, giving you a more empowered experience when dancing freestyle.

This enables you to have a playful and spontaneous approach to social dancing which builds from what you can already do rather than beating yourself up about what you can’t.

By recognising options in common scenarios and understanding how moves link together, you will learn to lead or follow improvised dances with confidence.

This is much more fun than trying to remember every move and combo by rote – a punishing and high pressure method which rarely translates to improved experiences on the dance floor.

Many dancers make hard work for themselves by attempting to learn each new combination from scratch.

They also try to run before they can walk with material which may be too complex or technically challenging for their current skill level.

The Biggest Challenge

At this stage of your Salsa journey, the biggest challenge is developing a reliable method of remembering the new moves you are learning.

And this is where most people struggle.

Especially if they are taking classes with a number of different teachers.

Because each class will dump more moves into the mix. 

There will be exponentially more to learn.

Much of the material will feel similar – which isn’t surprising given there are only a limited number of distinct moves in Salsa as a whole.

But as many of these will have subtle variations it can be confusing for leads to remember not only the exact move/combo, but how to get in to it and exit smoothly.

Many followers are conditioned to believe that none of this is their concern, and all they have to do is “just follow”.

But those followers who can take ownership of their own role in the dance by knowing their footwork for each move inside out – and recognising when they occur in the dance – will have a supreme advantage on the dance floor.

They will always look more balanced and composed than those who don’t.

I always liken this process to a Salsa “Sat Nav” where updates and new destinations are periodically uploaded.

But our brains are not computers and therefore only have a limited capacity for information.

If this is sounding like the perfect next stage in your Salsa journey, let me know.