About Us
Contact Us:
Email: everybodysalsa@hotmail.com
Telephone: (01733) 344934
INTENSIVE WORKSHOPS
Our enthusiastic team of teachers/dancers provides an action packed programme throughout the year, including Intensive workshop's, aimed towards dancers with a minimum 4 weeks experience. Each two hour intensive class is taken exclusively by Pattie Amos (UKA) and Alan Bull (UKA) and numbers are restricted. Currently we only run two of the six levels of class available at each intensive workshop and classes at these events are very popular. Our last Intensive workshop took place at All Saints church hall All Saints Road, Peterborough, between 11am and 3.30pm where numbers had to be restricted as one class became over subscribed. The investment was £15 per class.
CHARITY BALLS
The ninth everybodysalsa.com Charity Ball took place in July 2008, at our largest and grandest venue - the GER Club, Robingoodfellows Way, March PE158HS. The large wooden dance floor, comfortable seating, large stage, great lighting. A separate bar and free parking added to a really great evening. The theme oand optional dress code was “Summer Fantasy” and dancers and teachers alike donned a wonderful variety of costumesthat, in some way , fitted with the theme!
Prizes were handed out by our special guest teacher’s, who took both Improver/Intermediate and the Intermediate/Advanced classes on the night, Cut priced tickets were available in advance from any of our everybodysalsa weekly club's, or by post and full priced tickets were also available on the night.
PARTY NIGHT'S
CHRISTMAS SALSA PARTY SAT 6TH DEC 2007
The 5th everybodysalsa.com, annual Christmas event will take place at Saint Marks Church Hall, Lincoln Road, central PETERBOROUGH, on Saturday 6th December and will run from 7.30pm to Midnight. The evening includes friendly, easy to follow salsa dance classes, organized by UKA APPROVED Club Salsa Instructors appropriate for Beginners and more experienced dancers too. Joining the usual everybodysala team will be FOUR SPECIAL GUEST TEACHERS Teaching both Cuban and Columbian style salsa!
THIS YEARS EVENT ALSO FEATURES AN EXHILARATING, PASSIONATE AND INSPIRING PERFORMANCE BY TANYA AND SERGIO CUSAN ESPINOSA, FROM SALSA THEATRE PRODUCTIONS!
The Cusan’s went down a storm at the Bradford all dayer event on 20th September, so expect to be wowed on Dec 6th! Find out more about them by visiting www.tanyacusanespinosa.co.uk
Tanya and Sergio will also appear teaching Columbian style salsa, along with Sonia and Andrew, from Salsa Sonrisa, who will be teaching Cuban style, (to be confirmed). The everybodysalsa team will also be putting together a fun cross-body style class for everyone at the New Starters/Starters Plus levels.
The theme and optional dress code for the evening is, ‘Madi gras’ and there will be fabulous prizes for the best costumes, PLUS a FREE FRUIT BUFFET, to prevent anyone overheating with all the excitement
Schedule:
7.00pm Doors Open
Classes:
7.30pm - 8.15pm Beginners (Colombian style) with Tanya and Sergio
7.30pm - 8.15pm Improver (Cuban style) with Sonia and Andrew
7.30pm - 8.00pm New Starters/Starters Plus, Pt ‘1’ (Cross-body style) with everybodysalsa
8.30pm – 9.15pm Beginners (Cuban style) with Sonia and Andrew
8.30pm – 9.15pm Improver (Columbian Style) with Tanya and Sergio
8.30pm – 9.00pm New starters/Starters Plus (Cross-body style) with everybodysalsa
9.15 – 10pm Party
10pm – 10.20pm Salsa Theatre Productions performance - 'Latintastic'
10,20pm – 12.00pm Party
Tickets to this prestigious event, are just £11 in advance, or £13 on the door.
Tickets will be available soon, so watch this space!
For more information, call Alan on 01733344934, or visit everybodysalsa.com
everybodysalsa.com hold special party night's and ball's, in and around the Peterborough area. Usually on Saturday nights, these events involve around five hour's of salsa fun and frolics with a variety of dance classes. Most event 's have a theme and fancy dress is optional. Party nights are a great opportunity for dancers at all three of our weekly clubs to get together and are also open to dancers from elsewhere.
Prizes are awarded for the best costumes. We often invite guest teachers/performers to these events, who are chosen from across the UK, for their teaching style and manner and bring with them a wealth of talent, from both cross-body and Cuban and even Columbian dance styles. For further details about everybodysalsa party night's, salsa, or our regular classes, by UKA approved club salsa teachers, visit our website - everybodysalsa.com, e-mail to info@everybodysalsa.com, or telephone 01733 344934 :)
WHAT IS SALSA?
Salsa is nothing less than a ceaselessly evolving multicultural musical miracle!
It is a fast and passionate partner dance involving six steps over every eight beats of rich, multi rhythmed Latin music with a fiery tempo. The wonderfully rich and lively Latin music becomes practically irresistible and after a while you will find it difficult to keep your feet from moving along to the rhythm of modern stars like Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin, or classic oldies such as Gloria Estefan and Santana. Either way the dancing becomes irresistible, the more you do it, the more you want to!
The Salsa music that we hear today probably originated in Cuba, although it was not until many years later in New York, that it was given the name Salsa. Cuba, and shortly after other neighboring countries including The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Columbia and the US city of Miami provided a hotbed where artists from different cultures came together and merged the beautiful flamenco guitar music of the Spanish troubadours, with the hypnotic Rumbas of West Africa, and the Anglo/French Danzon, ( Country Dance).
It was not until the early 20th Century that this new music and dance spread across to Mexico and New York cities where it really began to take off, aided by commercialization. The name Salsa began as a New York nickname that appeared in the early 1940s.The term was applied, not only to Salsa music, but to any music emanating from Hispanic Countries, and so many distinctive styles of music and dance for example, The Cha Cha Cha; Cumbia; Danson; Gurache; Mambo; and Merengue etc were also referred to as Salsa until quite recently!
Salsa is nothing less than a ceaselessly evolving multicultural musical miracle!
It is a fast and passionate partner dance involving six steps over every eight beats of rich, multi rhythmed Latin music with a fiery tempo. The wonderfully rich and lively Latin music becomes practically irresistible and after a while you will find it difficult to keep your feet from moving along to the rhythm of modern stars like Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin, or classic oldies such as Gloria Estefan and Santana. Either way the dancing becomes irresistible, the more you do it, the more you want to!
The Salsa music that we hear today probably originated in Cuba, although it was not until many years later in New York, that it was given the name Salsa. Cuba, and shortly after other neighboring countries including The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Columbia and the US city of Miami provided a hotbed where artists from different cultures came together and merged the beautiful flamenco guitar music of the Spanish troubadours, with the hypnotic Rumbas of West Africa, and the Anglo/French Danzon, ( Country Dance).
It was not until the early 20th Century that this new music and dance spread across to Mexico and New York cities where it really began to take off, aided by commercialization. The name Salsa began as a New York nickname that appeared in the early 1940s.The term was applied, not only to Salsa music, but to any music emanating from Hispanic Countries, and so many distinctive styles of music and dance for example, The Cha Cha Cha; Cumbia; Danson; Gurache; Mambo; and Merengue etc were also referred to as Salsa until quite recently!
PRIVATE TUITION
There is nothing that you or we are doing that cannot be improved! And whatever you concentrate on, inevitably improves! So if there is anything about your dancing that you are not happy with, one of the quickest ways of overcoming it might well be a private lesson. We are receiving increasing interest in our private classes, which can be very useful for improving any aspect of salsa dancing that you are not entirely happy with. Whether it is leading correctly, following well, timing, turns, tricks, spins or dips, a private lesson may well do the trick. Our charges are modest, they won't make you groan, £50.00 for a couple, or £30.00 on your own.(Prices do not include traveling costs, which are free if we can slot you in before a regular lesson and also do not include any venue hire, if required). Private classes are taken exclusively by Pattie Amos (UKA) and Alan Bull (UKA)
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO!
Building on the success of our debut charity salsa ball "The Ball at the Hall" held at Peterborough Town Hall, in December 2004, (which sold out 5 days before the event), all profits being donated to the Mayor's charities - Sue Ryder and Muscular Dystrophy we held our Salsa Extravaganza, in July 2005, which, raising much needed cash for the Save The Children Fund. Our "masquerade" Christmas ball, which took place on December 17th 2005, enabled us to help out the cash starved St Theresa's day care centre for the homeless, and the Fenland and Marshland branch of the Alzheimer's Society, received all profits following our, Mid Summer Salsa Ball, which was held in June 2006. Dec 2006 saw a very popular pirate’s theme ball in aid of Peterborough Samaritans, which helped enable essential phone lines to remain open for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. `Myths and Legends` was the theme for our Summer Ball which took place on Saturday 7th July 2007, at the Polish Club, Stanground, which was followed by a Wild West themed Party on Sat Sept 15th. 'Ghosts and Ghoulies' was the theme for a Halloween party night on Sat November 10th and 2007 was polished off with a 'Stars of the silver screen' themed Christmas Ball onSaturday 1st December. 2008 began with a party in a new venue - The GER club in March Camb's, but we returned to the Polish club for a Valentines Party on Friday 15th February. The GER club played host again for our 'Summer Fantacy' Ball on Saturday 5th July 2008 and we have booked St Marks Church Hall, in Lincoln Rd Peterborough for our next event, a Christmas salsa party, to be held on Saturday 6th December, where we have invited our first Columbian style teacher! For more details please see the News page.
There is nothing that you or we are doing that cannot be improved! And whatever you concentrate on, inevitably improves! So if there is anything about your dancing that you are not happy with, one of the quickest ways of overcoming it might well be a private lesson. We are receiving increasing interest in our private classes, which can be very useful for improving any aspect of salsa dancing that you are not entirely happy with. Whether it is leading correctly, following well, timing, turns, tricks, spins or dips, a private lesson may well do the trick. Our charges are modest, they won't make you groan, £50.00 for a couple, or £30.00 on your own.(Prices do not include traveling costs, which are free if we can slot you in before a regular lesson and also do not include any venue hire, if required). Private classes are taken exclusively by Pattie Amos (UKA) and Alan Bull (UKA)
WHAT WE HAVE BEEN UP TO!
Building on the success of our debut charity salsa ball "The Ball at the Hall" held at Peterborough Town Hall, in December 2004, (which sold out 5 days before the event), all profits being donated to the Mayor's charities - Sue Ryder and Muscular Dystrophy we held our Salsa Extravaganza, in July 2005, which, raising much needed cash for the Save The Children Fund. Our "masquerade" Christmas ball, which took place on December 17th 2005, enabled us to help out the cash starved St Theresa's day care centre for the homeless, and the Fenland and Marshland branch of the Alzheimer's Society, received all profits following our, Mid Summer Salsa Ball, which was held in June 2006. Dec 2006 saw a very popular pirate’s theme ball in aid of Peterborough Samaritans, which helped enable essential phone lines to remain open for some of the most vulnerable people in our society. `Myths and Legends` was the theme for our Summer Ball which took place on Saturday 7th July 2007, at the Polish Club, Stanground, which was followed by a Wild West themed Party on Sat Sept 15th. 'Ghosts and Ghoulies' was the theme for a Halloween party night on Sat November 10th and 2007 was polished off with a 'Stars of the silver screen' themed Christmas Ball onSaturday 1st December. 2008 began with a party in a new venue - The GER club in March Camb's, but we returned to the Polish club for a Valentines Party on Friday 15th February. The GER club played host again for our 'Summer Fantacy' Ball on Saturday 5th July 2008 and we have booked St Marks Church Hall, in Lincoln Rd Peterborough for our next event, a Christmas salsa party, to be held on Saturday 6th December, where we have invited our first Columbian style teacher! For more details please see the News page.
DANCE DISPLAYS:
everybodysalsa also have a salsa dance display team, chosen from our teachers, who perform at local charity events, private functions, including Weddings, parties and have been very well received as guest performers at other salsa promoter’s events around the country, even featuring on BBC Look East in June 2006, preparing to take part in the Peterborough Festival. The display team performs as a single pair of dancers, two pairs of dancers, or the full, six person team, providing an interesting blend of both cross body and Cuban styles in their performances. Introduction to salsa taster sessions:everybodysalsa.com also perform, "introduction to salsa", taster salsa and/or Merengue classes, which are designed to encourage people to try out this exciting partner dance, and see if they like it, which they invariably do! These taster sessions, which are always good fun and sometimes include a dance display too, are usually 30 minutes long and are very popular at local charity events, private functions, including Weddings, Christmas parties and celebrations of every kind, as well as also forming part of the everybodysalsa team building events which we provide for businesses. If you would like everybodysalsa.com to perform for you, simply send an e-mail to info@everybodysalsa.com, or call Alan on 01733 344934.
everybodysalsa also have a salsa dance display team, chosen from our teachers, who perform at local charity events, private functions, including Weddings, parties and have been very well received as guest performers at other salsa promoter’s events around the country, even featuring on BBC Look East in June 2006, preparing to take part in the Peterborough Festival. The display team performs as a single pair of dancers, two pairs of dancers, or the full, six person team, providing an interesting blend of both cross body and Cuban styles in their performances. Introduction to salsa taster sessions:everybodysalsa.com also perform, "introduction to salsa", taster salsa and/or Merengue classes, which are designed to encourage people to try out this exciting partner dance, and see if they like it, which they invariably do! These taster sessions, which are always good fun and sometimes include a dance display too, are usually 30 minutes long and are very popular at local charity events, private functions, including Weddings, Christmas parties and celebrations of every kind, as well as also forming part of the everybodysalsa team building events which we provide for businesses. If you would like everybodysalsa.com to perform for you, simply send an e-mail to info@everybodysalsa.com, or call Alan on 01733 344934.
SALSA ROOT’S
The roots of salsa music lie in West Africa, where the slave trade thrived and where people created rhythms to evoke their Gods, these enchanting rhythms were taken to Cuba along with over one million slaves, over an astonishingly long, 300 years that the slave trade flourished. The Spanish captors, who had wiped out the native, Indian population of Cuba, by a combination of over working and disease, banned the African’s native religion’s, even outlawing the playing of music, unless the slaves converted to Christianity. So slaves used the drum rhythms in Christian worship too. Slaves were forced to adopt Christianity upon arrival in Cuba, but often called their own Gods by Christian names so as to avoid punishment. A similar practice was the progenitor of the "Yo Mama is so..." jokes in existence today among African-Americans. "Mama" was actually a code word for "Master". Hardly anyone telling these jokes today remembers what "Mama" originally stood for. Most of the listener’s and dancer’s of salsa music are unaware that the drum rhythms also have religious meaning. Various Caballeros, or200 different rhythms for different African Gods or `Orishas`, are still kept to this day. secret societies still exist in Cuba, where the knowledge of over
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