A final note about learning to dance Salsa

Learning to dance salsa can be a real challenge. Why? First, salsa is a "club dance" or "street dance" that has not been brought into the ballroom dance curriculums. Being a "club dance," and being outside most ballroom dance curriculums, salsa is taught mainly by night club salsa dancers and each may have their own, unique style. For such an easy dance, night club dance teachers often do not agree on what to teach as the "basic step" and they often do not agree on which beat to start the dance. Most night club salsa teachers fall into one of these two categories. Category 1: They grew up dancing salsa, they are great dancers with great style and "feel," BUT they can't teach it in a way that the average person can grasp - every detail broken down to count. The second category: They are fairly new to salsa and they can't teach much beyond very basic figures. Finding the combination of a great salsa dancer and a great teacher with the technical knowledge is very difficult.