Let’s Dance Salsa – Intermediate Lessons takes a new approach to teaching Salsa dancing!
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LENGTH: 131 Minutes
MSRP: $19.95
DIFFICULTY: Intermediate
CATALOG #: 20429
UPC #: 6-4603204299-3
ISBN #: 1-56839-329-6
RELEASE YEAR: 2010
PRODUCER: Inecom Entertainment Company
Let’s Dance Salsa Intermediate Lessons
Professional dance instructor Marlon Silva teaches beginners and experts alike with his step-by-step detailed instruction. His technique breaks all Salsa moves and combos down into building blocks, which are then assembled into more complicated moves that can be adapted to any music or club atmosphere. Rather than teaching by counting steps, Marlon’s method has taught thousands of students around the country to dance in less time with greater ease.
After the beginning dancers have become confident with their basic salsa moves, Marlon’s Intermediate Lessons take them one step higher with new combinations and expert moves! He teaches new, advanced steps building from the beginning lessons, and illustrates new moves like the Cape, the Duck and the Tunnel, which stem from the previous spins and couple-dancing lessons.
WHAT YOU’LL LEARN:
►Stretching Techniques – Instructors Marlon Silva and Susie Neff will get you on the right track with stretching techniques for dancing. Prevent injury, increase flexibility, have fun and look great!
►Cape Combinations – Marlon and Susie demonstrate Cape Combinations for Marlon’s unique style of Salsa. Movement in these combinations simulates the spinning of a cape around one partner’s back, and involves a salsa lock where partners stand abreast and lock arms behind each others’ necks. The combination ends with a flashy 360-degree spin.
►Intermediate Multiple Spinning Combinations – Learn The Duck and The Tunnel with style and grace that will light up the dance floor. Do you think you can keep up?
►The Vine – The Vine is an intricate mixture of combinations from previous Let’s Dance Salsa episodes which involves twists, spins and rolls in Marlon’s style. End your combination with more spice by leading, spinning, and using hand techniques.
►The Whip – Marlon Silva and Susie Neff demonstrate a dramatic technique for switching directions on the dance floor.
►The Tunnel – A technique called The Tunnel involves spinning, locking your partner in front of you, and switching hands over each others’ heads to form a tunnel. These moves can be accompanied by a variety of endings involving spins, drills, cape combinations and ducking combinations.
►Merengue Pretzel – This unique combination combines skills learned in the Merengue lessons of Let’s Dance Salsa – Beginning Lessons 2, as well as the cape combinations learned in Intermediate Lessons. Marlon and Susie demonstrate the spins, handwork and footwork of the Merengue Pretzel.
►Merengue Combinations – Learn more combinations for Merengue dancing! Marlon and Susie demonstrate Merengue combinations with plenty of ducks and spins, illustrated in both the classical European position and trendy Jumping Merengue style. Also included is how to signal your partner and which hand positions will prevent injury.
Instructor:
Marlon Silva, originally from Latin America, has been called “That red-hot chili pepper of a dance instructor” by the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review. He choreographs, performs and teaches Salsa and Merengue throughout the Western Pennsylvania area. Silva is the host of Inecom Entertainment Company’s Let’s Dance Salsa instructional film series.
Based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Silva has taught Salsa at the Dance Alloy, University of Pittsburgh, Duquesne University and Oxford Athletic Clubs. He has choreographed and performed shows at many venues including the Three Rivers Arts Festival, the Frick Art Museum and the Shadyside Arts Festival. His hot style of Latin dance has been written about in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review and In Pittsburgh Magazine.
Silvas Salsa dance instruction method uses the beat of Salsa music instead of the counting steps method taught by other instructors. This “natural style” of Salsa dancing is easier to learn and more fun on the dance floor. Silva believes that if you can walk, he can teach you to dance Salsa.
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