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Dance levels (Eng)

Selecting dance levels at the Cuban salsa line

You can basically register at one of the following 7 dance levels: Beginner, Intermediate, Advanced 1, Advanced 2, Advanced 3 Advanced 4 and Advanced 5 (masterclass).

You must register with a registration dance partner at the same dance level in relation to this description of the dance levels. This is a guide so that you can register at roughly the right level in Cuban salsa, as the names for levels differ from dance school to dance school. At the Camp itself, we will make a final fine-tuning of classes and dance levels.

Beginner:
You are a beginner in Cuban salsa and want to learn to dance Cuban salsa

Intermediate:
You have completed the equivalent of approx. 20 hours of easy instruction and/or have been dancing salsa for at least 6 months. You are confident in the rhythm, can vary your dance and are not afraid to work with your body.

Advanced 1:
You have completed the equivalent of approx. 40 hours of instruction at beginner and intermediate level and/or have danced salsa for at least a year. You can now dance salsa without “thinking”. The dance is starting to flow, you would like to have a larger repertoire

Advanced 2:
You have received salsa lessons for 3 seasons, corresponding to approx. a total of 60 hours of instruction and have danced salsa for more than a year and a half. You are learning very quickly now, and you have now focused on styling and bodywork.

Advanced 3:
You have received at least 80 hours of group instruction supplemented with courses at festivals etc. You have danced salsa for at least 2 years. You are already an experienced dancer who learns new things very quickly, and now want to get a complete handle on your styling and bodywork and the incorporation of Afro/Cuban elements.

Advanced 4:
You are an experienced salsa dancer at a high level who has danced salsa for many years and you have a handle on styling and bodywork. You enjoy being challenged with, among other things, Afro/Cuban elements and want to perfect your dancing in terms of listening, improvising and expressing yourself stylistically and physically based on your interpretation of the music.

Advanced 5:
You dance Cuban salsa at masterclass level. This means that you basically master all styles, bodywork and rhythms in Cuban salsa, and you focus on developing your musicality and improvisation in the dance.

 

 

Selecting dance levels at the Cuban Son line

You can basically select at one of the following 3 dance levels in Cuban Son:
– Intermediate
– Advanced
– Very advanced

You must sign-up with a sign-up dance partner at the same dance level in relation to this description of the 3 dance levels.

Intermediate
You are an intermediate son dancer, who has completed the equivalent of 40 hours of son instruction and/or you have trained and danced son for 2-3 years, when possible, at son workshops, salsa festivals and at salsa parties. You are confident in your basic son rhythm and your basic son techniques, and you can make your son dance flow, when you hear a son number with a clear son emphasis. You now want to become even more confident in your all-round son dance techniques and get a larger repertoire in your son dance and become better at understanding, dancing and playing with the music.

Advanced
You are an advanced son dancer who on a weekly or monthly basis are participating regularly in son workshops in your local dance community and has completed the equivalent of 60-70 hours of son classes and/or you has danced and trained son for 3-4 years at workshops, festivals, Son Cuba tours and social parties.

You are confident in your rhythm and have mastered basic techniques and your dance is flowing, and you would like to have a larger and more advanced repertoire in your dance, as well as to strengthen your advanced all-round techniques and to strengthen your understanding of music, so that you can dance and play better and start to improvise to the music, including including, for example, cha cha cha and bolero and breaks in your dance when the music invites.

Very advanced
You are a very advanced son dancer who on weekly or monthly basis regularly are participating in son workshops taught in your dance community and has completed the equivalent of 100 hours of classes and/or you have participated and danced son at workshops, festivals, social parties and Son  Cuba Tours the last 4-5 years.

You are mastering your basic son techniques, are confident in your son rhythm, can vary your dance according to the music and would like to become even better at mastering and polishing your son techniques, developing your son variation and expression possibilities by playing and improvising to the music. Including how you can become better at catching breaks and playing  with including e.g. cha cha cha, bolero, changüi, rumba-son, afro-son in your dance, when you hear the invitations in the music.