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Spring time at the YA Social - March 2009
Last Updated April 1st, 2009 by Geo-
Spring season (snow and all) hit the Detroit Salsa Scene in a big way any way you look at it! Whether it’s the recent leaps in attendance at the socials from 298 in February to 352 in March (no kidding!); or the growth of our YA Salsa team that will help keep the social going strong in the coming years, spring has definitely sprung!
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Each month, we try to keep our expectations for the social realistic and achievable - and each month we are amazed and re-energized by the great fortune we have to see it keep growing and the salsa scene continuing to thrive. So much energy, so many new faces, so many of our friends and so many people who are willing to volunteer their time, creativity and energy to make it happen. I will personally say, I'm always a little daunted at 5:15 p.m. when people start streaming in the door and this thing is about to happen.
The highlights began with a terrific performance choreographed by YA Salsa's Laura Geldys and Koki Ojima. It shows what happens when talent, hard work and passion meet; completely original works of art come to life. A little Mambo, a lot of LA Style and even a Little Rueda to round it out. Great job by them and the dance team! Hopefully they will keep working and inspire other Detroit dance teams.
June 2010 YA Salsa Video
Last Updated July 23rd, 2010 by Geo-Another great video courtesy of Opes Media! Includes our goodbye to Koki and interviews with Alien & Cristian. Enjoy!
"As always the YA Salsa Socials are known for great people, excellent music, and hot hot...(did I say HOT yet?) dancers! June was no different, YA Salsa hosted Alien Ramirez and Cristian Oviedo so Opes Media Company had the honor of filming them live! You may know these two Salsa Champions from hit shows Dancing With The Stars and So You Think You Can Dance. If you haven't heard of them...well shame on you, lol. Check out the video and see for yourself what makes them true Salsa Champions. "
YA Salsa Beginning Salsa Boot Camp
Last Updated June 13th, 2009 by Geo-
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YA Merchandise
Get your YA Salsa shirts!
All shirts are $12 and are available in most adult sizes, made from 100% cotton or a poly-cotton blend.
Choose from:
- Mens 100% Cotton Short Sleeve - Black
- Mens Shooter - Black
- Ladies 100% Cotton Short Sleeve - Black
- Ladies Fitted T 55% Cotton - Black
- Ladies Tank 100% cotton - White (not pictured)
- Ladies Shelf Bra Tank - White
- Ladies Vneck 100% Cotton - Pink
- Mens Fitted Sports - Black (not pictured)
To purchase, pick one up at the next YA Salsa social or e-mail info@yasalsa.com.
The next BIG thing - June 2009 Saturday Workshops
Last Updated May 16th, 2009 by Geo-Live and learn! Thats the spirit of our next big endeavor at YA Salsa. After our January 2009 workshops with Al Liquid Silver, much discussion among our team members and great feedback from the dancers, we have lived a bit and learned a lot. Here is a smattering of what we learned:
- Later start times are better - 12:00 PM seems to be a good time.
- We have been fortunate to have large numbers of new dancers attend the workshops, but after the first "free" class we have not provided a "next step" class for them.
- Our intermediate classes had a lot of new dancers which made it difficult for intermediate and advanced dancers to benefit from the lessons.
- More diversity in class dance styles, especially Cha Cha is important
- Focusing on followers and partner communciations, not just leaders and patterns is essential
So, for our upcoming June 13th workshops we are going to take that next leap forward. Not only are we providing more for our new dancers, we are re-affirming our commitment to advancing the experienced dancers.
A little of what we hope to accomplish includes:
- A 2 1/2 hr bootcamp for new dancers that will help them get comfortable with salsa, social dancing, having fun and dancing safely on a crowed dance floor.
- Three hours of Intermediate and Advanced workshops with the guest instructors Lee Rios and Lisa Vargas that will focus on solid fundamentals, musicality and integrating shines in partnerwork.
- A limited class size Masters workshop with the Lee and Lisa that will focus on aspiring performers.
Our specific class offering should finalized this week and the final schedule is on its way!
P.S. We will have t-shirts too! We are now offering 8 styles of ladies and mens shirts at low prices which will be available at the May 2009 social!
YA Salsa Social Video February 2009
Last Updated March 16th, 2009 by Geo-Erik and Kathryn from Hot Block have done it again! Check out our February 2009 social - lots of new faces along with familiar ones. You can see how much energy was in that room!
