• Next Practice: Every Sunday 4:30 - 6:30 pm at Sonny Newman's beautiful dance hall. Everyone welcome, newcomers encouraged! Come introduce yourself during the first hour of any Sunday practica. Indoor dance shoes only at Sonny's, please.
  • Sun, Jan 29: Open meeting, 2:30 pm at the Broadview Library
  • Sun, Jan 29: Sueltas with Ofer from 4:30 - 5:30 pm, regular practica from 5:30 - 6:30 pm.
  • Upcoming Events:
  • Thurs, Feb 9, 8:30pm: Savani World Jazz Quintet & Supersones @ Columbia City Theater

Video of the Week

Posted by on 05 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: Video

Italy:

Suelta Summary January 29 2012

Posted by on 02 Feb 2012 | Tagged as: Instruction, Practice

Next sessions are Feb 12 and Mar 11.

1) Music: Salsa, Timba Y Amor, Issac Delgado, SuperCubano (latest Delgado Album)

Warm up and going through our developing repetoire.  The song is  about a  couple from Puerto Rico and Cuba – He loves Salsa and she Timba.

2) Music: La Gorda, Wil Campa, Todo es Posible

Taps & crossovers.

3) Music: Que Tiene ese Guajiro, Los Van Van, La Maquinaria  (Latest Los Van Van)

Salsa Time to Son Time :

L1R2L3   P4   R5L6R7L8   P1   R2L3R4   P5   L6R7L8

Explanation :  L1R2L3   P4   -  Left step on 1 , Right on 2 and so on. P = Pause.  In Salsa we often tap on the pause. If you are dancing Son you typically won’t tap on the pause, if you are just dancing to Son time, you can do as you please.

So when switching to Son we step an extra step on 8 onto our left (just like in Ponche). In Son time  our anchors are beats 4 and 8 that correspond to a pluck on the Bass.

Son Time to Salsa Time :

R2L3R4   P5   L6R7TL8   L1LR2L3   P4   R5L6R7

When heading back to Salsa, we tap on 8 with our left and then immediately step back with same foot “1″.

4) Music: El Veterano, Maikel Blanco & Suprema Ley, Mi Olvidé Quien Era

Uno Y Cinco to match the hits in the song.   Practiced Salsa/son switching to a faster tempo.

5) Music: Fuga (Cha-cha-chá), Tiempo Libre, Bach in Havana

Cha-cha-cha – vuelta, izquierda, enchufla.   Song is based on Bach’s Sonata In D Minor – how cool is that ??

6) Music: El Año Que Viene, Issac Delgado, Los Grandes Exitos De Isaac Delgado

We studied a move taught by Duane Wren. Practiced it to our standard slow practice song.

Let call it “El Duane”.  See our own Maritza demonstrating it:

Let me know if you have any questions.

Savani (from Zarabanda) World Jazz Quintet & Supersones @ Columbia City Theater – Feb 9th

Posted by on 30 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Events, Music, Social

Join Elspeth Savani (from Orchestra Zarabanda) and her Jazz Quintet, as they play a nightof World Jazz at the beautiful and historic Columbia City Theater. Afterwards, Supersones will play a set of their infectious and danceable music starting around 9:45.

Doors: 8pm

Savani will open the show at 8:30 and the Supersones will come on for dancing 9:45 until 11:30.

Cover: $10

Today’s Open Meeting

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Admin, Practice

One more post from me today: We had a really good discussion about the practica format and related issues at the open meeting today. A sincere thanks everyone who participated! There were 11 of us. We narrowed down and tweaked the list of ideas and will be looking for folks to help implement them. I plan to bring a summary sheet and and a sign up for specific volunteer tasks next week at practica. Also check back in a week for a new post about it here.

Rose City Salsa Festival

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Events

The Rose City Salsa Festival is April 12-15 at the Hilton in Vancouver, WA. This is Portland’s festival but it’s a little shorter drive for us this year, and they are having casino and rueda, with Duane, Mike and Simona, and Katy Hernandez! http://www.rosecitysalsafestival.com/workshops-2

The full pass is $110 for Fri and Sat night parties, plus all day Sat and Sun workshops. If you pay for workshops individually they’re $20 each. Or a Saturday workshop pass is $60, and the Saturday party is $35.

I expect there will be several people driving down Saturday and returning Sunday. It would be great to have a small crowd from Seattle. The hotel is $114 + tax per room, and that’s the total cost for up to 4 people.

We’ll figure out carpools as the time gets closer, but in the meantime you can let me know if you’re interested in carpooling.

San Francisco Rueda Festival

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Events

Here’s the website for the San Fran festival, which is President’s Day weekend, Feb 16-19. http://www.salsaruedafestival.com/

News from San Diego

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Social

I heard from Maritza that she started a monthly casino on cardboard event in San Diego, is teaching, and is in a rueda performance group with some of the rueda instructors in San Diego. She also started a rueda community blog for San Diego at www.sandiegorueda.com. She sounds really happy!

Reminder: open meeting today at 2:30

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Practice

Details can be found by clicking here.

Location: Broadview Library meeting room, 12755 Greenwood Ave N; on the #5 Metro bus route, just a few miles north of Sonny Newman’s Dance Hall (**This event is not sponsored by the Seattle Public Library.**)

Agenda: Download the agenda in advance by clicking here.

Hope to see many of you this afternoon!

 

Video of the Week

Posted by on 29 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Video

Cuba:

Best Cuban ablums of 2011…and Club Sur tonight, 1/28

Posted by on 28 Jan 2012 | Tagged as: Music

Here are some of the best Cuban timba, reggaeton and rumba alblums of 2011 (in my opinion) from Los Van Van, Halia Mompie, Combinacion de la Habana, Los 4, Agüiri Yo and the beautiful soundtrack to Chico y Rita.  Click on the ablum covers to hear music samples.

And I’ll be spinning many of these tonight at Club Sur.

                           

 

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