Social Salsa:– learn Salsa Moves &
Free Steps– find Dance Festivals
(salsa, bachata, kizomba)

Choose the DURATION of the salsa moves you want to see

Choose the POSITION of the SALSA DANCERS in the moves you want to see

Salsa FREE STEPS

Create a FIGURE or a choreography

Find latin DANCE FESTIVALS: salsa festivals, bachata festivals, kizomba festivals,… (2 ways)

Salsa social: Improve your salsa moves

When you are dancing salsa in a ballroom there are two points that you should always keep in mind: salsa rhythm and salsa dance steps. At Salsa Dance Moves we are going to focus on to improve your salsa moves.

So, let’s get better:

• style or styles of each salsa move
• quantity of salsa moves
• and obviously the salsa move itself

Increase your salsa steps, and get better your style in social salsa dancing

You will learn dance moves of the great dancers right on the dance floor, watching their amazing salsa dances.

Salsa Dance Moves is always collecting fantastic dances, cutting them down into short moves to later classify them according to the initial and final position of the dancers in the movement.

You will find all kinds of short movements: elegant, surprising, stylish, fun, easy, complex,…

In the collage below you can see some drawings representing common positions (initial and/or final) of dancers during a salsa dance.

How does Salsa Dance Moves website improve your salsa steps?

You’ll improve your salsa dancing level by watching short moves (usually less than 4 seconds) of great salsa dancers in a social dance.

Drawings representing dance couples

On the Salsa Dance Moves website you’ll find many drawings representing the different positions that dance couples usually take.

Let’s see an exemple. In the drawing below you can see the initial position (drawing of the dance couple on the left) and the final position (drawing of the dance couple on the right) of a short move.

But also, in the lower left part of the drawing there are some digits, specifically 39/2005. In fact these numbers mean that, at this time, in Salsa Dance Moves there were 2005 movements, of which 39 corresponded to moves that start with the position of the dance couple on the left and end with the position of the dance couple on the right.

And of course, the video below is one of these 39 short dance moves you can find.

Let’s go to practice!

What are the advantajes of Salsa Dance Moves system?

• It only takes a few seconds to remember and practice these short moves
• Whether you are the person following or leading, you’ll see some of the best salsa dancers performing moves you already know, the only difference beging the style.
• You’ll see moves that you don’t perform, which you can possibly use in future salsa dances
• You can practice new short moves every time you go to a social dance
• You will be able to change style of some movements according to the music and the dance partner.
• And why not? In a sense you could say «I am taking salsa classes near me«

Let’s go to practice!

Why do I always repeat the same dance routine?😞

In a salsa social we all get used to repeat many movements and figures, and it’s something completely natural. But, sometimes we realize that depending on what situation we only have one or two dance routines and this makes us feel disappointed and bored 😞: «I always do the same».

Salsa Dance Moves has a section to solve the problem «same dance routine».

What do we find on the web?

As we said before on the website you’ll find many drawings representing the different positions that dance couples usually take.

When you click on one of theses drawings representing an initial position of a move, you will find different possible moves to continue dancing.

The digits of bottom left side 51/2006 mean that out of 2006 movements, 51 correspond to moves that start with this position.

But, these 51 moves can have:

• different ending position
• same ending position, but different dance routine
• same dance routine, but different dance style or different dancers

Let’s see several exemples

We are going to carry out the example using as initial position the one indicated in the drawing above.

So, the video below is one of these 51 short dance moves you can find.

Let’s go to practice!

Let’s see another exemple of these 51 moves.

Let’s go to practice!

And another one:

Let’s go to practice!

As you can see there are many different ways to get out of the same starting position. Here now we have shown only three. But on Salsa Dances Moves website you can find many more. Some of them will have a different process and some will have a different style.

How to choreograph a dance?

How to choreograph a dance? Do you have to make a choreography? Do you have to create a wedding dance choreography? Are you thinking how perform salsa figures for your salsa class? Do you have to perfect a dance choreo for your dance team?… or maybe you just want to do a choreo because you feel like it.

It is possible that your choreography is almost finished, but there is some part that you are not quite excited about. Salsa Dance Moves can help to show you different moves or maybe the same moves in a different style. Keep in mind that the dancers featured in the video library of movements are masters of the dance, and salsa in particular.

Salsa Dance Moves helps you to make a salsa dance choreography

Salsa Dance Moves helps you to make a dance choreography, a salsa figure,… or some parts of it. On the website there is a section specifically prepared to be able to make a salsa dance choreography.

How does it work?

The basis of the system is to join two movements in which the initial position of the dancers in one movement matches the final position of the dancers in the other movement..

It is important to note that salsa dancers who star in these dance moves do not have to be the same in each of the movements.

The second important point is that on the website you’ll find many drawings representing the different positions that dance couples usually take.

Let’s see an exemple.

At the beginning of the choreography

At the beginning, drawings are representing an initial position of a move, they are representing the initial position of the salsa dance choreo.

In this case we are going to choose the position shown in the drawing below. As you can see we are not going to start the choreo with a usual position. It is for you to see that it is possible to start with any starting position.

Numbers 66/628 indicate that there are 628 movements with the selected dancers, of which 66 begin with this initial position.

Let’s go to select one of the 66… we decide on this movement of Barbara Hegyi & Sean Babatunde whose final position is the same as the initial one.

Now, the position of the dance couple represents the end position of the move.

Let’s see the movement we have chosen.

If we decide that this movement suits us well for the choreography, Salsa Dance Moves will display us the options to continue with the choreo.

Make a choreo!

Second move of the choreography

We know how the next movement will start, since it will do it in the same way that the previous one ended.

Salsa Dances Moves will show us some drawings with:

• the final position of the next move
• the name of the dancers
• the duration of the movement

It’s time to select one of them to continue with the choreography… we have decided on a movement of Beige & Rok

And the move is…

Therefore, if the movement seems really good to us to continue the choreography, Salsa Dance Moves will display us the next moves to continue with the choreography.

Make a choreo!

Third movement of the choreo

We look at the possibilities and choose one… a movement from Anita Santos & Fadi Fusion.

Can you do this?

We are going to add one more movement to finish this short choreography.

Make a choreo!

As always, Salsa Dance Moves will display us the options to finish the choreography… Our choice to end the choreography has been the movement from Cloe Ferreira & Nery Garcia.

Cloe Ferreira & Nery Garcia in action…

Finally, we have chosen all the moves of the choreo, we save the result and we will have the final choreography

Salsa social: Find Latin Dance Festivals

Let’s go dancing: Salsa, bachata, kizomba,… and more

Are you thinking of going to a salsa, bachata, kizomba festival, SBK festival or any other? Are you thinking of going to a salsa marathon?

Maybe you are doing it right now. But, you have not yet decided where, or when, or in what type of congress you will go.

For this reason we would like to introduce you to the Dance Festivals Search Engine. It is a very easy, fast and clear system to use, on mobile phones, tablets and computers.

Dance Festivals Search Engine

Dance Festivals Search Engine helps you see just about every option in the world.

In each search it’s only necessary to fill in one of the fields of the form. Either the field of the type of event, or the field that indicates the date from which you can go to a festival, or the field that indicates until what date you can go to a festival, or in which country you would like go to a festival and even in which continent you are looking for the congress.

In addition, you can make the combinations you want from the fields. However, if the country field and the continent field are filled in, the search engine will take the country field by default.

The clarity of the resulting data helps you to look for easily combinations between festivals.

Go to Search Engine!

When you have done the search you will get a list with all the festivals that meet the requirements you have inserted

Go to Search Engine!

When you decide on an event, you will get a list with all the data related to the festival.

And from here you can open the event information that seems most interesting to you.