Salsa Lessons at Playa Central in La Ventana, Baja!

Salsa is one of the most fun and popular dances people want to learn, and you can take free lessons in La Ventana every Tuesday at Playa Central.  Jessica from Playa Central and special instructor guests give a free lesson from 7:00- 8:00 PM on Tuesdays every week for beginners, and the class stays til after 9:00 PM dancing and practicing together. We´ve learned that having a margarita before the class seams to be a good idea to losen up and sometimes there is definitely a salsa party that gets started after the lesson.  

Here we have Jessica and Matt, dancing salsa in January 2013 as a promotion of their Tuesday Salsa Nights. 

You can come single or with a partner, we will have someone for you to dance with and people will often switch partners to improve on their salsa skills. 

A cool thing about the lesson is you can come alone and meet people; you can bring a partner and switch a few times during the lesson; or come with a group of friends. With just one lesson you can go from someone who has never danced salsa before and has no clue how to, to someone who can do the basics and be able to carry on a salsa dance next time. Sometimes really good salsa dancers who happen to be vacationing in La Ventana will come to the Tuesday class and share their time by teaching advanced steps to the class. After the one hour of lessons the class becomes a dance floor where people dance and help eachother improve their salsa moves. 

Jessica and Walid teaching variations of the basic salsa step to make sure first timers can start having fun immediately. 

Maybe this will help you dance salsa, this is Jessica´s best description of how to do the basic salsa dance, or you can watch this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDODx6qVuRg

* Small step forward with left foot, slight heal lift in place with the right foot, then bring left back next to your right foot. (Count to this would be 1, 2, 3) .
* Now you step the right foot back, slight heal lift in place with the left foot, then bring the right foot back next to your left foot. (Count 5, 6, 7)
* Notice that the 4 and the 8 are not mentioned above, that is because it is just a slight pause.

Playa Central will bring big salsa orchestras to play live music for the town. Azucar!!

 Once everyone can do the basic steps and turns, then Jessica goes into practicing with music and switching partners. At the end of the lesson they always teach a semi-advanced move to teach the regulars who are ready for a new move. Nowadays you will notice that there are a lot more salsa dancers on the dance floor at parties in La Ventana. Another great thing is that this Tuesday Salsa class gives Jessica and Playa Central a good excuse to throw salsa parties a few times a year for all the salseros in town! 

Everybody is welcome to get up and dance to the live salsa music! 

Let us tell you, some live salsa music, margaritas, and a few salseros can transform any room! Now we now!

Hope you get to come to one of our free salsa lessons. We would like to also recognize the Secret Salsa Society (or Not So Secret Salsa Society) from White Salmon, W.A., as well as the Hood River, O.R. area for the way they have started cultivating a dancing community in their active town. Jessica never misses their Wednesday Salsa nights while she is in Hood River during summer vacations and would like to thank the society for inspiring this movement at Playa Central and La Ventana. Check them out if you are in the area too! For contact or more info you can visit www.playacentralkiteboarding.com or our facebook page www.facebook.com/PlayaCentralKiteboarding