by Shulagh Jacobs | Mar 13, 2018 | Salsa Technique
Balancing your internal world to become a better dancer… Ask most people what they are dancing with and you might get a few different replies. Some would say their feet. Others might say a partner. Some may say they dance from their heart. But when you look...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jan 30, 2018 | Salsa Technique
There are plenty of options when it comes to improving your physical dance technique and adding to your moves repertoire. You can go to weekly classes locally, practice social dancing, attend workshops, dance holidays and festivals worldwide. However what I’m...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Mar 7, 2016 | Dance Yourself Happy, Salsa Technique, Social Salsa Dancing
Why do we dance? For most of us, it’s because the feeling of connection we get when we dance with a partner is the most magical feeling on the planet. Once you’ve experienced that magic, nothing else comes close. If you’ve not been...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Feb 8, 2016 | Men's Salsa, Salsa Technique
Many improver level dancers – particularly guys – feel that they aren’t really dancing. They worry that it looks like they are just stepping from one place to the next in the dance and don’t actually have any dancing of their own. At that point...
by Shulagh Jacobs | Jun 14, 2015 | Dancer's Body, Ladies Salsa
I did a private lesson for a novice female dancer recently. She was struggling because she couldn’t relax her arms and shoulders enough to feel the lead and was mentally beating herself up constantly as a result. The solution was really simple. For the first...