Salsa Kernow - we're back in Bovey from this Friday!

The theatricals have vacated the Town Hall at Bovey Tracey so we're back from Friday 31st November with a slightly different programme to normal... this programme will run on the following Fridays: Oct 31st and Nov 7th and 14th

7.30-8.00 Absolute Beginners drop-in class - £2
Covering the basic footwork and partnerwork (we'll repeat this class for each of these Fridays)

8.00-8.45 Technique drop-in class - £3
Got the basics (from the earlier class)? Now step up a gear to learn some of the core salsa moves!

8.45-9.00 Practice time - free

9.00-10.00 Improver drop-in class £4
More complicated - even more fun!

10.00-10.30 Practice time - free

From November 28th the programme changes again to accommodate our 'Cool Moves For Christmas' (Improver level) course - the course will fill the 7.30-8.45 slot followed by our usual 9.00-10.00 Improver drop-in class plus the practice sessions.

Bovey Dancenight this Saturday!

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It's a big night at the Town Hall THIS Saturday - people say our dancenights in Bovey are the friendliest they've attended - come and find out why!

Here's the programme...

8.00-9.00 Improver class £4
The usual wonderful and orignal dance pattern stuff!

9.00-midnight Dancing! £4

Class and dancing £7

PLUS - for one night only! The wonderful Fernando and Tara from Vida De Tango will be demonstrating Argentinian Tango (sometime between 9.00 and midnight!). These guys are VERY good! So you don't want to miss this show. Most people I know who are outside the tango scene haven't seen tango as it is danced informally at the milongas - forget ballroom tango - that's as far from what we're staging on Saturday as salsa on Strictly is from the way we dance it! Prepare to be seduced by this magical and esoteric danceform. We're staging this because these guys are teaching very accessible tango drop-in classes in Exeter, Torquay and Plymouth - it's a new scene and it's very likely you'll want to be a part of it! This show is free so if you just want to come and watch please do - but I can't be more specific about the time it'll happen, but hey, there'll be plenty of other things going on!

And to continue the tradition, there will be coloured lights again. We just don't hold back for you guys!

Okehampton Salsa Dancenight - Saturday 8th November - in aid of the RBL Poppy Appeal

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Salsa Kernow is also honoured to have been asked to run a salsa dancenight for the Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal. All the proceeds are being donated to the Appeal.

There's a large a good quality dancefloor at the venue (harter Hall, Market St, Okehampton, Devon EX20 1AA) and we'll be playing our usual mix of wonderfully danceable salsa, bachata and cha cha (but mostly salsa!).

Here's the programme:

7.30-8.15 Absolute Beginners class
Never tried salsa before or tried it and forgotten everything? Come and experience our unique intro session that teaches you far more than might believe possible!

8.15-9.00 Improver class and shines
For the more experienced dancers - a very cool move you can light up the floor with later!

9.00-midnight Dancing, DJ'd by Salsa Kernow

Whole evening price: £7
Classes only £4 (you can do both for this price)
Dancing only: £5

PLUS - if you make it to this event we are offering 25% off the price of either of our 4-week courses: 'Cool Moves For Christmas' (starting 28th Nov in Bovey) or 'Salsa Beginners' (starting 16th Jan in Bovey). On top of that, for every person who books on we will donate £5 to the Poppy appeal! The normal course price is £20 per person - so it's now yours for £15 (and from that we'll donate a fiver to the RBL).

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LATEST NOVEMBER EVENTS INFO

Sat 1 Nov - Salsa Kernow Dancenight - Bovey - more
Sat 1 Nov - Eternal Salsa party night - Bristol - more
Sat 1 Nov - SalsaSiempre Freestyle - Dorchester - more
Sat 1 Nov - Anyone can - Salsa Party - Plymouth - more
Sun 2 Nov - Monthly Latin Social - Exmouth - more
Sun 2 Nov - Hot Salsa Halloween Party - Plymouth - more
Fri 7 Nov - Rueda at the Lamb Inn - Sandford - more
Sat 8 Nov - Poppy Day Salsa Dancenight - Okehampton - more
Sat 8 Nov - Salsa Party - Callington, Cornwall - more
Fri 14 to Sun 16 Nov - Salsa Weekender - Guernsey - more
Fri 14 Nov - Hot Salsa Partynight - Plymouth - more
Sat 15 Nov - Salsa Southwest - Torquay - more
Sat 15 Nov - Workshops and Dancenight - Bristol - more
Sat 15 Nov - Caratinga live latin band - Penzance - more
Sun 16 Nov - Rueda - Ashburton - more
Thu 20 Nov - Rueda - Exeter Phoenix - more
Fri 21 to Sun 23 Nov - The Great British Salsa Experience - Manchester - more
Fri 28 Nov - Dancing at Bar Havana - Exeter - more
Fri 28 Nov - Salsa Kernow 'Cool Moves for Christmas' course starts - more
Fri 28 Nov to Mon 1 Dec - Cuban Salsa Congress - N.Wales - more
Sat 29 Nov - Moose Salsa, Exeter - more

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Dancing and the martial arts!

There's been a useful two-way conversation going on in the Blog on our website - one of the most recent posters to the topic 'How you learn salsa' made this comment...

Hey! Just stumbled across your article when I was theorizing about my judo & jiu jitsu practice. Seems like there are 4 stages to learning a move: 1. learning & refining. 2. Drilling it without resistance. 3. Practicing it with resistance. 4. Integrating it into the game.

As Salsa doesn't involve a resisting partner, seems like the learning stages are exactly the same as martial arts, or grappling at least.

Food for thought: maybe martial artists could expand their brainspace & reflex neurons by learning to dance ! What a wonderful thing the internet is. I think I'll give my ex-girlfriend who's now a Salsa teacher a call...

It's an interesting comment, though I'm not so sure about his observation that salsa doesn't involve a 'resisting partner' (and you can interpret that phrase any way you like!).

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And finally...

Another reminder about The Great British Salsa Experience (GBSEx). Hopefully we'll see some of you at what is likely to be this years biggest salsa event!

Here's a small selection of the teachers currently booked for this event...

Tomas Guerrero & Santo Rico (USA)
Leon Rose (UK)
Susana Montero (UK)
Lee Hunter (UK)
Osmar Perrones (USA)

Angus Peters (UK)
The Cobo Brothers (USA

And here is the web address: http://www.thegreatbritishsalsaexperience.com