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What makes a good Salsa Dance School? By Dennis
Salsa dancing popularity is growing worldwide and quickly becoming one of the most organized and professional street dances in the world. There has also been a significant rise in the number of dance schools specializing in teaching Salsa. You can easily find Salsa schools in major cities around the world. Before any individual starts to embark on a journey to dance either socially or professionally, the common approach would be to choose a dance school which can offer the best lessons possible. The search would ultimately lead to this question “So what makes a good Salsa dance school?” Generally, Salsa schools teach students in two approaches. The school teaches the student dancer to dance a choreographed routine before an audience or teaches the student dancer to dance socially. Ideally, a good salsa dancer should be capable in both social dancing and performance, but each dancer will build, or prefer to build, their foundation differently. A good salsa school would be able to adopt both approaches for individual student dancers as well as discover their strengths and weaknesses. In this way, the progress of individual students can be monitored efficiently. Many Salsa schools around the world provide Salsa lessons in a regimental way without regards to the individual development of student dancers. Students undergoing regimental Salsa classes will find it difficult to progress as they get indulged in learning new dance moves every lesson without perfecting whatever dance moves they have learned previously. A good Salsa dance school should be flexible and provide modular lessons for the student dancers. Modular lessons would appear to be slow and repetitive in nature as the lessons places more emphasis on the basics of dance moves such as the footwork or posture of individual dancers. However, modular lessons ensure that students excel in their basic dance moves to build the foundation to execute more complicated and fanciful dance moves either in performance or social dancing. There has been on ongoing debate arguing that dancers who mainly reserve their dancing to performance or choreographed classes lack spontaneity and adaptability, whereas, dancers who mainly reserve their dancing to the social floor never learn any new moves, lack growth – and are often there for other reasons than Salsa. Many Salsa schools around the world often overlook these issues and continue providing dance lessons for commercial reasons. A good Salsa dance school should be one that ensures performance dancers maintain their spontaneity and adaptability when thrown onto a social dance floor and social dancers continue to learn new moves and progress for as long as they dance. However, regarding the issue of social dancers often being on the social dance floor for other reasons than Salsa, there’s nothing much any Salsa school can do anything about because it is an issue regarding individual motives. A good Salsa dance school can minimize this phenomenon if the school places the main emphasis on dancing and progress of individual dancers rather than anything else. Other aspects of a good Salsa dance school would be rather general, just like for any other dance school. These aspects comprise of good facilities, reasonable lesson fees and of course good dance instructors. These aspects would also contribute to form a good Salsa dance school.
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