by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 13, 2021 | Social Salsa Dancing
Chances are when you step onto a social dance floor for the first time after lockdown you will feel rusty and unfit. We all will. It doesn’t matter how good a dancer you are, no one can stop for nearly a year and a half and not notice some deficit in their...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 8, 2021 | Dancer's Body
Body isolation is usually presented as the first step towards learning body movement in Salsa dance. Yet how many of us have watched even seasoned social dancers struggle and get increasingly frustrated when they just can’t make that body part behave and move...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Sep 24, 2020 | Beginner's Salsa, Salsa Mindset
Here is the first episode of my new podcast where I aim to dig deeper into topics which cause people to struggle with bringing their dancing hopes and dreams to full fruition. Ironically these issues don’t always limit themselves to dancing, and they often throw...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jul 10, 2018 | Social Salsa Dancing
As World Cup fever rises in the UK following England’s victory over Sweden, many people are temporarily taking their eye off the ball with their Salsa as they plan to give their midweek classes a miss so they can watch the semi-finals. But there are actually...
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...