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Salsa, Latin-American
& Ballroom Dance
Lessons in London

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  Salsa Music Is Popular

  Salsa music is increasingly used in a number of films, TV programs & commercials as well as growing in popularity generally. Popular musicians include salsa music amongst their repertoire such as Michael Jackson’s "You Rock My World", Sting’s "Fragile" and Cold Play’s "Clocks" to name a few. Salsa music varies across the world and new clubs are starting up all over the place every month. Click on the "Salsa Music Clips" link to hear free samples.
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  Dance styles develop from particular types of music

  For example Mambo was originally a Cuban dance, but in New York, it is now a totally different dance which has become very popular across Europe in the last 10 years or so. The most common styles in London are now L.A. (also known as New York On1) and the original Cuban, but there are a few who prefer the Miami or Colombian styles whilst New York style is rapidly growing in popularity. Click on the "Salsa Video Clips" link to find out more.
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  What About Ballroom & Latin-American Dances?

  There are quite a few dances which seem to be returning to fashion again thanks to dance programs on the television such as "Strictly Come Dancing" etc. BestSalsa will concentrate primarily on teaching moves which can be used on the social dance floor rather than choreographed moves which would be unuseable with anyone other than a regular partner.
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  Learning to dance Cha-cha-cha will help you improve your salsa styling & timing

  The music is a little slower & will therefore help enable you to learn New York Style Mambo which is becoming increasingly popular amongst many salseros & salseras - especially those planning to become professional salsa dancers. If you are not sure what Cha-cha-cha is, then why not check out our "Cha-cha-cha" page? There are video clips showing how to dance, along with examples of what is good, what is great as well as the not so good.
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  Individual Lessons

  The advantages of individual lessons (or private lessons as they were once known as) are that they are tailor made to suit you. You can learn whatever you want to learn at your own pace in the style & level of your choice rather than take the risk of wasting time. This is particularly useful if your time is valuable. Some people feel too shy to go to group classes until they feel reasonably competent.
  
  Barry Gordon is often available for individual lessons in any of the dances listed on the "Dances Available" page.
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  Salsa Dancing Is Popular

  Salsa dancing has become a particularly popular partner dance and is still growing across the UK and the rest of the world at enormous speed. Salsa dancing is now commonly included nowadays amongst traditional Latin American Dancing and is becomingly increasingly popular over the last few years. There is a lot of freedom to freestyle & include one’s personal styling rather than copy a rigid set of instructions as in Ballroom dancing. Hence some people become competent in salsa dancing relatively quickly.

For Non-Facebook users & those who prefer email
we use one of the following 2 Yahoo Groups

You may join one of the following 2 "Yahoo Groups". Your email address is kept confidential. Please note that Yahoo do NOT recognise email addresses which begin with
"Admin@", "Info@", "Root@", "Sales@", "Support@" or "Webmaster@" etc.

Please click here for Yahoo's explanation why these email addresses are not allowed.

New Yahoo Group

Like the Facebook group above, our NEW Yahoo Group is purely for classes & events involving BestSalsa - No messages will be forwarded by or for other promoters.

To subscribe to the NEW Best Salsa Mailing List, or edit your membership via the web please click here.

Alternatively, the following email addresses may be useful, but please respond appropriately to the auto reply -
To subscribe email BestSalsa-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk
To unsubscribe email BestSalsa-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk

Facebook Page

We now use this Facebook Page to keep our members up-to-date with BestSalsa classes & events for those who prefer not to disclose their email address to us. Please click on the above link for further details & then to click "like".

This is purely for classes & events involving BestSalsa - No messages will be forwarded by or for other promoters unless BestSalsa are directly involved. There were also 2 groups which Facebook archived & hence made unuseable now.

Original Yahoo Group

Many of the Salsa promoters in & near to London use our original mailing list below to circulate their latest news. You may opt out of receiving them and still be a member (see option 3 below). Promoters scroll all the way down to see conditons of use.

There are several membership options available.

You may receive emails -

From other members. Yahoo calls this "Individual Notices" From other members, but all messages sent in 1 day are collated into a single email. Yahoo call this "Daily Digest" From Barry Gordon only. Yahoo calls this "Special Notices". You might find it simpler to join our New Yahoo Group above rather than select this option. No emails - This option should only be selected temporarily e.g. if you are going out of town for a short while. To subscribe to the ORIGINAL Best Salsa Mailing List, or edit your membership via the web please click here. Alternatively, the following email addresses may be useful, but please respond appropriately to the auto reply - To subscribe send an email to BestSalsaMailingList-subscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk To unsubscribe send an email to BestSalsaMailingList-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.co.uk If you have difficulty in changing your membership option, please contact us so that we can change it for you. If you join the group but cease to receive emails, (e.g. because your mailbox was full for a while) please contact us and let us know. Failure to do so may eventually lead us or Yahoo to remove you from the mailing list automatically. Click here for the ORIGINAL Best Salsa Mailing List Homepage. For Promoters Using Our Original Best Salsa Mailing List (Yahoo Group) The use of the Best Salsa Mailing List is a privilege & not a right. Approval & rejection of messages is at the sole discretion of Barry. ANYONE SENDING SPAM WILL BE BE BANNED WITHOUT WARNING & YOUR MESSAGE DELETED AS SPAM - NOT PASSED ON TO THE GROUP. Barry decides what is spam or not. Messages must be related to Latin-American or Ballroom dancing in or near to London UK with the approximate location(s) included in the subject header. Only members may post messages. This is done to minimise spam. The email address to send a message to the group, is BestSalsaMailingList@YahooGroups.Co.UK Members with a Yahoo ID may alternatively post their messages to the group via http://uk.groups.yahoo.com/group/BestSalsaMailingList/post Messages may only be sent from the same email address that members receive group mail. Members may post no more than 1 relevant message per week to the group. If a member sends a message before their "1 week" limit, approval will be delayed until their week is up. All messages will be coverted to plain text format regardless of the format they are originally sent. Attachments & non-text portions are not permitted and will automatically be deleted. We don't usually ask for payment for the use of the Best Salsa Mailing List, but we reserve the right to impose more conditions than the above. e.g. free entry for 2 to any events we help advertise. Sometimes Yahoo do not send messages back to the sender. If you want to check whether or not your message has been approved, please check here. before contacting Barry. Messages will not be approved for free if an event in that message conflicts with any BestSalsa lessons, clubs or events i.e. nearby on the same night. Messages will only be approved if the promoter's website has a link to BestSalsa.Co.UK without a "nofollow" tag & preferably our logo / banner (see top of this page). NEW - This link to BestSalsa.Co.UK should be easy to find from their homepage i.e. within 2 clicks. Alternative to 16 above, we request that promoter first demonstrates that they have sent a message to their own mailing list recommending BestSalsa classes.