Dance Musings

It's a fact that salsa dancing can keep your heart rate high and help burn fat. Which moves burn the most calories though? It depends on you, your metabolism, and how much oomph you put into every move. Each salsa move can burn a tremendous amount of calories if you put … [Read more...]

It doesn’t matter if it’s an Apple Watch, Fit Bit, Garmin or other type of fitness tracker, people are wearing them around the clock—and it just makes sense to wear them to salsa class! Right? Not necessarily. Fit watches are just one tool of many that may help you move … [Read more...]

Zumba. You’ll find it heavily seasoning just about any gym group class schedule, often available during traditional salsa “off hours” like early morning and at noon, making it seem like the perfect complement to your evening salsa class practices. Zumba has some … [Read more...]

It’s not just on the dance floor. Any time you’re in an uncomfortable position, you become hyper aware of your hands. What do you do with them? Should you use them to help express yourself, or are you expressing too much? If you’ve ever found yourself in a school play, … [Read more...]

You’ve seen the salsa studies. You know salsa dancing is a great way to improve your health, especially the physical and social aspects, but another study suggests that salsa dancing can help revive passion. According to British researchers at Strathclyde University, … [Read more...]

Many male salsa dancers want shoes that give them more height. It’s empowering, sometimes it’s more comfortable to dance and turn when you have more lift, and if you have a partner who’s taller than you (especially with her heels on!), your own extra height can make … [Read more...]

It’s not recommended that salsa classes double as a dating pool—but you can’t deny destiny. One British couple shared their salsa love story with The Mirror, attorney Robert Lye and Adnieszka Lye. Both were living in Manchester, and Robert decided that at nearly 40 … [Read more...]

What could be better than a free salsa class? Sometimes, it’s a salsa class that’s reasonably priced! For starters, sometimes you get what you pay for. This doesn’t mean all free classes are sub-par quality, but they might be. There are also so-called “free classes” … [Read more...]