HELLO and WELCOME to everybodysalsa.com

The super friendly home of salsa dancing in and around the Peterborough, Cambridgeshire area.

Our super friendly weekly salsa clubs and events are organised by UKA qualified, club salsa teachers. Classes and club currently take place every Monday evening, in the comfortable suroundings of the Ball Room at the Fletton Ex-services club, 243 Fletton High Street, central Peterborough PE2 9EH.

We enjoy a great atmosphere at the Fletton Club, which comes with FREE parking and friendly bar staff. The drinks are subsidised and the modern dance floor is just right for our needs. There is a large plush seating area, which is a great setting to get to know new friends and watch whist other dancers take to the floor.

How to get here:

It’s so easy to find, just south of the river and just past the Peterborough United football club. Bear Right at the 1^st set of traffic lights, staying on London Rd until you reach a 2^nd set of traffic lights. Turn left here into Fletton High Street and the club, which is a long white building, will appear on your right after about 500 meters as.

Parking: There are side roads on either side of the Fletton club, where there are no parking restrictions. You can find more information about our dance classes on the ‘Classes page’. everybodysalsa also hold periodical charity balls, parties and intensive workshops.

Private tuition:

Private tuition is also available at affordable rates and our team of trained teachers and helpers also perform salsa dance displays and fun, taster classes at festivals, weddings and parties, etc, as well as team building events for business and have extra low, low rates for charity events.

 ‘DISCOVER THE DANCER IN YOU’

 *       Do something different this year!

 *     Enjoy great nights out and keep fit too!  

 *     Lose weight the fun way!

 *       Get out more and meet new people!

 *      Learn an exciting new way of dancing!

‘DISCOVER THE DANCER IN YOU’

An EXCITING NEW six week courses in salsa dancing, with a new course starting every seven weeks *

Designed to provide YOU with enough knowledge, which when combined with enough practice, will enable even a completely new starter to be able to dance freestyle with different partners and be able to join in our exciting, regular “Improvers” salsa dance classes, which also takes place every week.

If you would like to ‘discover the salsa dancer in you’, we will be pleased to see you, any Monday evening at Fletton Ex-Services Club, 243A Fletton High Street, central Peterborough, PE2 9EH. Doors open from 7.15pm and we dance ‘til 11pm.

*COMPLETELY NEW STARTERS WELCOME*

What's it all about?  A series of 6 great evenings out for adults of all ages to have fun meeting new friends, keeping fit and developing new skills in a relaxed friendly atmosphere.

Who is it for?  It’s for YOU!! If you haven’t danced before, this course is designed to help you develop your ability at a pace that you find manageable and first time dancers are as welcome as those with more experience.

No partner needed.               

Salsa is a partner dance, but it is also a very sociable dance too, an environment where you will quickly make friends and where the ‘leads’ are constantly rotating, ensuring that no body misses out, injecting energy into the dance and building confidence along the way.

All ages from 16 to 86 welcome:

‘everybodysalsa’ welcomes you and age is no barrier. As long as you have the desire, we will be here to teach you. We all learn at different speeds and in different ways, so should you find any part of this course more challenging that other parts, our super friendly ‘everybodysalsa’ team is always there to help, and remember, a little extra practice can make a lot of difference to your confidence and ability, so do stay on after your class and enjoy our freestyle club ‘til 11pm.

How much?  The full 6 week course is on offer at ONLY £35!!

You can book a place on the course for yourself, a friend or spouse it’s a great way to kick off the New Year!

When can I join?

This course is designed for you to join on either week one, or week two. Students unable to join on week one we will be offered a shorter ‘booster class’ to help you catch up. Anyone wishing to join the course after the second week are welcome to join us on the next course, which is only a few weeks away. Course start dates for 2013 are: 14th January; 4th March; 22rd April; 17th June; 29th July; 23th Sept; 11th November.

Celebration, (hav a go nights): Our usual club routine changes slightly on the week following the completion of each ‘DISCOVER THE DANCER IN YOU’ six week course, to allow the presentation of certificates to the graduates and to celebrate them joining the Improver class, (if they wish to), and in keeping in the spirit of graduation, existing dancers in the Improvers class are invited to try the more demanding Intermediate level class. Celebration nights are often accompanied by an extra dance class, designed for all levels of dancers to join in, and where graduates have an opportunity to meet and dance with more experienced people. Celebration nights during 2012 areth September; 29th October; 17th December. scheduled for:27th February; 16^th April; 4^th June; 23rd July; 10

A BLEND OF BOTH POPULAR SALSA DANCE STYLES:

everybodysalsa.com currently teach a blend of both Cross-body and Cuban
style salsa from complete new starters to the advanced intermediate level.

When you come along for the first time, you will start off learning the Cross-body style. (Both the New York style, and LA style salsa dancing are Cross-body style salsa dancing). everybodysalsa.com gradually integrating the Cuban style as your skills develop. We also occasionally invite high quality guest teachers from both these classic styles, to some of our parties and balls to increase our dancer's familiarity and confidence in both these classic styles.

WHAT EXACTLY IS SALSA?

Salsa is nothing less than a ceaselessly evolving multicultural musical miracle! It is a fast and passionate partner dance involving six steps over every eight beats of rich, multi rhythmed Latin music with a fiery tempo.

The wonderfully rich and lively Latin music becomes practically irresistible and after a while you will find it difficult to keep your feet from moving along to the rhythm of modern stars like Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin, or classic oldies such as Gloria Estefan and Santana. Either way the dancing becomes irresistible, the more you do it, the more you want to! The name Salsa began as a New York nickname that appeared in the early and 0th Century that this new music and dance spread across to , that it was given the name Salsa. Cuba, and shortly after other neighboring countries including The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Columbia and the US city of Miami provided a hotbed where artists from different cultures came together and merged the beautiful flamenco guitar music of the Spanish troubadours, with the hypnotic Rumbas of  West Africa, and the Anglo/French Danzon, ( Country Dance)

WHAT TO EXPECT ON YOUR FIRST VISIT:

If you are coming along for your first salsa dance class, here is a short outline of what to expect:

When you arrive, you will be given an everybodysalsa.com dance safety guide and a brief introduction to our organisation. The guide is a list of common sense do's and don’ts, that when followed, help create a safe and friendly environment, in which your dancing skill and confidence can develop.

You will be asked to sign your agreement to abide by the guidance notes, before entering the club. The receptionist, who is often a teacher too, will also ask you for an e-mail address and mobile phone number, this is simply to enable us to keep you up to date with forthcoming salsa events, trips etc, as well as any last minute changes to planned classes/events, which occur from time to time. We take care to treat all information with the strictest confidence and only use it to benefit our dancers.

After your class there will be a period of freestyle designed for you to have the opportunity to practice your newly earned skills before a more advanced class takes place. Feel free to carry on practicing in any space a little bit away from the new class, or use the time to have a relaxing drink, whilst observing what you may be doing a few weeks, or months ahead. We do not advise trying to join in this class just yet, as we all need to learn to walk before we can run J

If you are coming along for  for the first time, uncertain of what to expect, worried if it would be too difficult for us etc, so if your not sure if you are capable of salsa dancing, here's the test: If you can walk, you can learn dance!

First night continued: soon after you arrive, there will be an announcement for people joining the ‘Beginners’ and ‘Improvers’ classes to 'line up', which is an invitation for you and everyone else attending our first two classes to assemble on the dance floor, Men line up on one side and Women, line up on the other side, facing each other and the teachers, (noticeable by their everybodysalsa ‘T’ Shirts), stand in the middle. The music will start and the teachers will demonstrate basic steps and turns in time with the music and invite everybody to join in, (Note, this is not the lesson, just a warm up, where you can experience moving your feet to salsa music, a bit like line dancing with salsa step's). After the music stops you will be separated into different levels of experience, so that everyone in your class will be at approximately the same ability. Once in your New Starters class your teachers will explain the timing of the salsa music and demonstrate each step/turn before inviting you to join in. The pace of the class will be slower than the 'line up', which makes it much easier to pick up and the class will be punctuated with music from time to time, to allow you to practice your new found skills at a faster pace and hopefully in time with the music too! There should be time

in your class to have a little one to one time with your teacher, however this time is limited by the number of dancers in the class, and when working with the leading and following techniques, you will have an opportunity to dance, not only with your teacher, but also with every other Lead/Partner in your class, which is a great way to break the ice and get to know the other people in your group. Your lesson will end as it started, with another 'line up', where you will be able to see for yourself, how much you have learned in the past hour.

FREE ENTRY TO THE EVERYBODYSALSA.COM FREESTYLE CLUB:

The evening doesn’t end when your class finishes, because following the Intermediate class everybody dances freestyle until 11pm. Which is an opportunity to dance. Not only with people you have recently met on your course, but also with more experienced dancers too! (I guarantee that they don’t bite)!

This period is where you gradually develop confidence and your own distinctive style of dancing, which is of cause, what the classes are preparing you for, so do stay on and dance, as without practice, progression is slower. The freestyle club is also a great opportunity to invite other members of your class, including your teacher for a dance.

Work aside, everybodysalsa teachers are always happy to dance with you after the class. We get a lot of pleasure watching you progress and are happy to go over anything that you would like help with.

I hope that this rough guide has been helpful to you and look forward to seeing you at one of our weekly salsa clubs soon.

Note: Entry to an everybodysalsa class also entitles you to the everybodysalsa freestyle club, which continues straight after your line up and you are very welcome to stay until we close at 11pm.

For more information please see the Classes page.

WHAT EXACTLY IS SALSA?

Salsa is nothing less than a ceaselessly evolving multicultural musical miracle! It is a fast and passionate partner dance involving six steps over every eight beats of rich, multi rhythmed Latin music with a fiery tempo.

The wonderfully rich and lively Latin music becomes practically irresistible and after a while you will find it difficult to keep your feet from moving along to the rhythm of modern stars like Jennifer Lopez and Ricky Martin, or classic oldies such as Gloria Estefan and Santana. Either way the dancing becomes irresistible, the more you do it, the more you want to! The name Salsa began as a New York nickname that appeared in the early and 0th Century that this new music and dance spread across to, that it was given the name Salsa. Cuba, and shortly after other neighboring countries including The Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, Columbia and the US city of Miami provided a hotbed where artists from different cultures came together and merged the beautiful flamenco guitar music of the Spanish troubadours, with the hypnotic Rumbas of  West Africa, and the Anglo/French Danzon, ( Country Dance).

SALSA ROOT’S

The roots of salsa music lie in West Africa, where the slave trade thrived and where people created rhythms to evoke their Gods, these enchanting rhythms were taken to Cuba along with over one million slaves, over an astonishingly long, 300 years that the slave trade flourished. The Spanish captors, who had wiped out the native, Indian population of Cuba, by a combination of over working and disease, banned the African’s native religion’s, even outlawing the playing of music, unless the slaves converted to Christianity.

So slaves used the drum rhythms in Christian worship too. Slaves were forced to adopt Christianity upon arrival in Cuba, but often called their own Gods by Christian names so as to avoid punishment. A similar practice was the progenitor of the "Yo Mama is so..." jokes in existence today among African-Americans. "Mama" was actually a code word for "Master". Hardly anyone telling these jokes today remembers what "Mama" originally stood for.

Most of the listener’s and dancer’s of salsa music are unaware that the drum rhythms also have religious meaning. Various Cabillolos, or secret societies still exist in Cuba, where the knowledge of over 200 different rhythms for different African Gods or Orishas, are still kept to this day.

The Salsa music that we hear today may have it’s roots in Carabbian, but quickly spread to Miami, New York and Mexico, where it has continued to evolve to this day. The term salsa originated in New York in the1940s and was applied, not only to Salsa music, but to any music emanating from Hispanic Countries, and so many distinctive styles of music and dance for example, The Cha Cha Cha; Cumbia; Danson; Gurache; Mambo; and Merengue etc were also referred to as Salsa until quite recently! And the various styles of salsa dancing that we see today bear little resemblance to its pre 1940’s roots.