Salsa Dance

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Terry Dean
Ballroom Dancing Expert , Terry Dean’s Ballroom Dance Studio
www.terrydeansdancestudio.com  
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Terry is the owner and principal male dance instructor of Terry Dean’s Dance Studio, in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has been teaching ballroom dancing for 30 years and opened his own successful studio following a 19 year career with Arthur Murray Dance Studios. Terry has received accolades for his choreography and has been honored as Virginia State’s Top Studio and Top Teacher twice. He and his staff teach students of all levels, whether they are interested in social dancing, exhibition dancing, or competitive ballroom dance sport. He has led many of his students to win top level gold medal competitions, and he is pleased to share his expertise with you today.

Salsa Dance

In this video, Terry teaches the basic patterns and techniques of the Salsa, and provides the fundamental knowledge you need to get started with this wildly popular Latin dance. This video series is designed for the beginner, but there are techniques that the intermediate dancer will find useful as well. Terry demonstrates exercises to help get ready your body for dancing and teaches the basic pattern of the Salsa. He shows the techniques that provide the characteristic styling of the Salsa, and finally adds variations that will make dancing the Salsa quite enjoyable.

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Terry Dean: Hi I am Terry Dean from Terry Dean Dance Studio Today, we are going to be show you the salsa. The salsa is kind of hot new dance. That's one of found new dance. It is really hot right now and it is a Latin dance which people are doing all over. It is kind of on fire right now. So we have to do a little bit of salsa. I think that you are going to really like the salsa. I have been teaching for 30 years and I tell you right now, the salsa is really hot and it's nice to see, people really get enthusiastic about a particular dance. Right now, this one and everybody is really into. So I think you are going to have a lot of fun watching it and learning it. Remember, that all of the dances are going to be physical in nature. So you have to train your body to get loose, to get feel stretched and ready to do some of the moves that we are going to do. It is not very hard to get in shape and to loosen yourself up but remember to do that. Next thing we are going to do is just the basic components of salsa, so you get a basic idea of how to move and then we will go from there.

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