Content of Cuban Salsa classes at Dance4Water Essen
Here you find all figures that you learned in Salsa Cubana classes at Dance4Water Essen.
On this site we want to inform you about all the content we are teaching in our Salsa classes. We highly recommend you not to look at the contents in order to prepare yourself before a class. Learning Salsa from videos is just not a good idea.
These videos are meant for you students to look up something after you have learned it in class.
Cuban Salsa Music
So if you are a beginner and you want to practice, you need music. For the start, we recommend not searching for any salsa music online but using our recommended playlists instead. That will ensure you use Cuban Salsa music in a beginner friendly speed. We will give you playlists with and without counting.
Spotify
Beginner Playlist with counting
Salsa Cuabana Level 0 Playlist
Salsa Cuabana Level 2 Playlist
Youtube
Beginner Playlist with counting
Practice your Musicality – a lot
We at Dance4Water Essen are convinced having great dances roots in good musicality rather then pulling one crazy figure after another. To be able to truly connect with the music, with your dance partner and yourself you want to make sure you are confident about finding the “1” in Salsa songs. We recommend you to use the free App Dancetime (Apple / Android) if you want to practice musicality outside of our classes.
Cuban Salsa classes content
Cuban Salsa Level 0 – free beginner class
Salsa 0 is about learning Guapea (a Salsa basic step) and about how to dance together in a couple. You will also learn dile que no, a move to switch places with your dance partner. In Cuban Salsa you need this move after almost every other move that you will learn later, so it´s good to learn it early. Also you will need dile que no to dance Salsa in a rueda (in a group of people) to change dance partners (also called: dame).
Salsa Level 0 is just one single class, repeating itself every week, Mondays from 19:00 – 20:00. It´s free of charge and you can repeat it as often as you like before you go to the next level.
Cuban Salsa Level 1
Salsa Level 1 takes place Mondays from 20:00 – 21:00 and consists of four classes. If you know all of the moves, ask a teacher for a feedback session so you can level up to Salsa 2.
Also we will teach you something about musicality in every single class.
| Figure | Translation / Meaning | Video |
| Enchufla | plug in | |
| Closehold Arriba Abajo | Closehold Up, Forward Down, Backwards | Link |
| Vacílala | Give her a flirty look | Link |
| Rueda 1 Adiós a la prima Fly (doble) Fly doble Fly alto Tumbao Pisar Mentira Los tres | Goodbye to the cousin Clap on 1 Clap twice on 1 Jump and clap on 1 Lift your leg and clap Stomp on 5 “Don´t do it” Do the last three things | Link |
Cuban Salsa Level 2
Salsa Level 2 takes place Tuesdays from 19:00 – 20:00. Please ask a teacher for feedback before you join this class.
| Figure | Translation / Meaning | Video |
| Enchufla variations Ochos Enchufla complicada Enchufla doble | Eights Complex enchufla Double enchufla | Link Link Link |
| Vacílala variations dedo right-handed dedo Sombrero | Finger right-handed finger Hat | Link Link |
| Solo in couple | ||
| Cubanito Cubanita | Link | |
| Exhíbala Sácala rodeo | Present her Take her out Rodeo | Link Link |
| Setenta Setenta Miami | Seventy Seventy Miami | Link Link |
| Rueda 2 (ench.con.., adiós) | ||
| Closehold 2 | ||
| Kentucky | Link | |
| Revision & Improvisation of Salsa 1 |
Cuban Salsa Level 3
Salsa Level 3 takes place Tuesdays from 20:00 – 21:00. Please ask a teacher for feedback before you join this class.
| Vuelta de Tornillos | Screw turn | |
| Siete & Coca Cola | Seven & Coca Cola | |
| Rueda 3 | ||
| Setenta me Gusta | Seventy I like | Link |
| Enchufla variations2 (moderno) | ||
| Abanico Montañas | Fan Mountains | Link Link |
| Pa dentro pa fuera | In and out | |
| Desplazamiento | Displacement | |
| Setenta con Setenta | Seventy with Seventy | Link |
| Bayamo por abajo Matanzas | Bayamo = a city in Cuba // por abajo = “down” Matanzas = a city in Cuba | Link Link |