In this 5-week workshop you’ll learn a Rueda de Casino choreography with your fellow students to perform at the Cubason Congress in New Orleans on Thursday, August 8th.

In the workshop you will apply and develop your knowledge of partnering technique, turn patterns, rhythm, and body-movement, taking your salsa skills to the performance level. Each week you will learn a section of our original choreography, our Homage to the Fundadores de la Rueda de Casino — we’ll be dancing in the traditional style and with the original movements used in the first Ruedas from the late 1950s and early 1960s in Havana. The workshop is for dancers who are currently taking Levels 3 or 4 in our regular drop-in classes, i.e. have completely mastered Levels 1 and 2 from our curriculum.

We will meet every Sunday from July 7th to August 4th. Each session is offered on a sliding scale ($20 to $40 for each two-hour session). We will allow drop-in for the first few weeks of the workshop but after that we will require dancers to register for the full workshop. Participants will also need to purchase their own costume and purchase a pass for the Cubason Congress (discount is available to performers).

Participation in the performance workshop will require individual and/or small group review outside of the weekly meeting times — we expect that the material taught one week will have been practiced and internalized to the best of your ability so that we can continue with new material each week. We will take videos during each session and share them with the participants privately so that you can review during the week.

Dancers who will not be traveling to New Orleans to perform can still participate in the workshop.

Participation in the workshop does NOT guarantee a spot in the performance. In the final sessions of the workshop if we assess that you have not learned the choreography in the correct sequence, with the correct timing, and with the correct style you will not be able to participate in the performance. We will also do our best to find an even number of leaders and followers but if there is an imbalance some dancers may not be able to participate in the performance — in this case we will include the dancers who have best mastered the choreography.

If you have questions about your level or other aspects of the workshop please contact us.

These workshops, and all RCR classes, are offered on a sliding scale. When you check out, you can enter either 25OFF or 50OFF as codes to receive 25% or 50% discounts.

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FULL SERIES (Five Sessions)