You don’t need to bring a partner. We allways try to keep a balance between leaders and followers in our classes.
That depends, please make an appointment or speak with us so we can assess your current level. You can attend the level we recommend for you and any other level below.
We seriously want to help everyone be their best version as a dancer, but for that, specially since you are going to be dancing with other people, we need to make groups where everyone can follow the class and no one gets frustrated feeling unable to follow the class, or delaying the rest of the group.
If there is something we both have become experts at after so many years, is to teach people from zero and make every movement understandable for everyone. As far as you can walk, or move, you are able to dance socially
Any clothes are ok as far as it is confortable for moving. Although, in many studios we are required to wear a clean pair of shoes, so please bring another pair of shoes.
We are gonna need a longer answer here.
That depends on what you are looking for. If you are choosing strictly between private lessons or group classes, then private lessons will give you the most effective learning experience, and at a much faster pace, although, these have a higher price tag than group classes. Group classes are usually more fun and social, while private classes are more challenging and focused.
Going Further: Private Lessons
- Allows you to work one on one with a teacher.
- Learning is quicker in a one on one setting because the content is specific to the individual.
- Questions, difficulties, or any problem can be fixed immediately in a private lesson.
- Private lessons are scheduled based on your schedule
- Private lessons for any hobby are more expensive, including dancing.
Going Further: Group Lessons
- Add context and repetition to a specific dance or skill
- Are scheduled at set times throughout the week
- Have more students than teachers, so we give more general feedback and less specific to each person
- Are less costly than private lessons
- The pace is set by the group not by the individual
- This is like learning a language, so, the more people you dance with, feeling the similarities and differences for the same patterns, the better you will understand the essence of that dance
The answer is with private, group and social dance, the three of them together.
Group classes are super good to build your base, socialise, and add repetition and context to your dance. It makes you use your muscle memory more than your brain through repetition.
Private classes go deeper in developing your skill and help cleaning your movements more specifically.
Social dance/ practice parties provide practical application, solidify your muscle memory in a more relaxed environment, and give you real time feedback for how your dance is developing.
Here we are going to speak not from a business perspective, but as teachers. We really encourage all our students to get memberships and have continuity attending classes, and stop any drop off mindset that you could have about dancing classes. This is why we built everything to encourage you to commit and come regularly to classes
We focus classes both as a hobby and fun time, and a way to learn and grow as a dancer, but growing properly is impossible if we don’t keep continuity between classes from one week to the next one. Of course, you will learn, but the process is way quicker and waaaay more rewarding when you follow a methodology, than just learning random moves from each class
Of course, you have to inform us to speak about it, and we can pause the subscription, so you get classes for the amount of months you paid for.
We are still developing the web, and we are busy organizing the courses for the new year and. As soon as everything is ready and we get a payment service, we will inform everyone that you can manage your subscription online. It should be ready for October.
For the moment, just contact us if you want to join any class or some info. We prefer cash if possible while we work on the system to be ready, to make the administration easier for us, but we can also send you a link to pay manually if you prefer that way without any problem
The introductory classes are aimed at people without knowledge in the matter. They serve as an introduction to dance, where you can learn and create a strong base to build all your dance properly and perfectly.
It is better to start always in this level even if you are talented or danced already in parties, so you don’t miss basic techniques. Another option in those cases would be to take private classes to get those techniques and be able to join higher levels
For students who have already completed the initiation course, so they already have some experience. Here we go further in the lead & follow techniques, you’ll learn new basic turns, footwork and movements, to establish that base that we started building in level 1
Everything you have learned in the basic courses is now combined into longer and more complicated patterns. We start focusing harder on body isolation and flow, cleaning your basic so you don’t feel like a robot dancing and start enjoying your own movement
Here you are expected to have a good overall lead & follow technique, know your basic techniques and turns, and to be comfortable on the dance floor. We finish learning any basic technique that we may be missing, so future levels are gonna be just evolutions and combinations of them
Here we join students who come from previous levels and students who already attended this level the previous year, who seek to consolidate the figures and movements learned on it. For this level it is mandatory that followers do double turns with ease (three are recommended), that the leader has ease in handling, that both easily recognize the musical times and never dance out of time, and know the technical details that they have worked in previous courses and know how to execute them with ease. We will work advanced figures but easily danceable on the track
This level will only be created in the schedule in case we have enough people that are able to follow it, so it is not going to be something happening every month every year. The difference is not that much on the combinations as it is on the level of the participants and speed of the class.
We will work figures that require good technique, spatial knowledge, advanced marking on the part of the leader . It is also essential to know all the details of previous courses, because we will not stop at knowledge that should be known at this point. This level is usable if you have a lot of fluency, because if not, you will work figures that although you can learn them in class, you will not be able to execute them on the dance floor fluently.
The amateur team is for people of at least level 4, that want to experience the stage. We will be making show choreos that will be based on social technique, so it helps your social dance, but also on more specific stuff like lanes, presence, interpretation,…
It requires compromise, more than regular classes, since usually will take 6 months to get a choreo ready and trainings are mandatory unless you have real reasons to skip them,letting us know about them; but not as much compromise as the semipro team
The semi pro group is a team where we train to create complete dancers, that is, dancers that excel at shows and social dance, mastering every technique , without mattering where they travel to and who they are dancing with, in every bachata style (tradictional,modern,sensual)
The objective of this group is not just to help people be the best dancers they can reach to be, but also for us to get better and train hard, and trainings are planned with that idea in mind, so we require both a high level and good base before joining, but specially a really strong compromise, since we are gonna have mandatory trainings around 5 hours every week, and a hard worker will always surpass any talented dancer with, no mattering if you are missing things at the beginning, just putting the proper amount of time and focus .
