Brix @Haytt
Sunday latin night
8pm $15 first drink
10 Scotts Road #B1
Hyatt Regency Hotel
Tel:67381234
Fuego
Every Tuesday,
8.30pm till late
5 gemmil lane,
enter via
club street
Hard Rock Cafe
Every Thursday
9.30pm till late
#02-01 / # 03-01 HPL House
Tel:62355232
50 Cuscaden Road
Singapore 249724
Naxos
Wednesday
9pm till late
20 Cross Street #01-22,
China Square Central
Tel: 67335646
No cover
Movida @ St James
Power Station
3 Sentosa Gateway S(098544),
Park @ Vivocity if St James carpark is full
Tel:6270 7676
First drink charge $20 from 9pm onwards. Only
the band play one or two salsa. The DJ play no
Salsa when we were there for 45 minutes on 25
Nov Saturday
The Ballroom @ Dempsey
Block 18 Dempsey Road
$22 Per entry
Thumper
Wednesday 8pm till 2am
Goodwood Park Hotel, 22 Scotts Road, S(228221)
Tel: 67664232
Free Class @ 8pm, Free Entry
Upper Club
30 Victoria Street, Chijmes
#02-01A, S(187996)
Tel: 6338 1313
Union Square
Monday - Saturday
The Amara Hotel
165, Tanjong Pagar Road, #02-05
Tel: 224-6116
Xenbar
www.xenbar.com
Monday-Sunday
6pm till late
34A Pagoda Street,
Chinatown S(059191)
Tel: (65) 6225 2620
Free Class Every Sunday 7:15pm
Best Time is 9:15pm after most of their classes.
Did you miss Jianyang and his jokes too?
click
here to find out how he can still make you laugh
even when he is not at Xen.Get to know Jianyang, Yanqing
and our list of
Salsa
Star Blogger. Find out the story about Jianyang and
how he accidentally became the 1st Singapore Open Salsa
Champion (Union Square) and the 1st Xenbar Professional
Category Champion in 2005.
Click here
Does any of these model looks familiar?
Yes, they are all salsa students from Xenbar. Look out
for their interviews and view on salsa with over 18 full
pages, go grab your
copy of SNAG out now at all major newspaper kiosk or
watch this pages as we will be bringing you more details
of the interviews soon.
Coming year end, Singaporean will be treated to not one
but two Singapore Salsa Festival.
Singapore Salsa
Festival (www.singaporesalsafestival.com)
and Singapore International Salsa Festival (www.sisf.com.sg).
For many
years, Singaporean have to travel overseas spending a
couple thousand of dollars each time they visit a Salsa
Festival overseas. Now they just have to pay as little
as a few hundred to do so.
To book your
advance tickets call 65-63240906 or email
5 Free Dance Classes: Salsa, Rueda,
Bachata and Merengue Every Sunday
Night
Xenbar will be conducting a Free Bachata
and Merengue from 7:15pm to 8pm. There will be free
Beginners and Intermediate Rueda from 8:15pm to 9pm at Abblu (above Xenbar) every Sunday.
Manfred of AAVX will also be conducting
two free salsa classes at Xenbar every Sunday. 7:15pm
tp 8pm Basic Salsa Class and 8:15pm to 9pm Intermediate Salsa Class.
So everyone can choose between 5
different classes and learn Basic Salsa, Intermediate
Salsa, Merengue, Bachata and Rueda. Just buy the first
drink at $7 and you can choose to go for all five classes free. MMmmm.... I
think, I will be going. See you this Sunday.
Manfred's free intermediate salsa class
on Sunday 13 Aug 2006. Don't miss the next free class.
Want to take private class?
Here are a list of recommended certified instructor from
$30 to $120 per hour. for details
click here
See video performances of Actfa Hip
Hop Dancers
at Ministry Of
Sound
(click here) and Double O party.
Click Here
Actfa is holding audition for Hip Hop
Dancers to train for
competition and performances call Yanqing @ 81577733
click for details
Rueda also has
the effect of increasing the dancers’ sphere of
awareness. To dance rueda, one has to be very alert- to
the commander who calls the shots as well as to the
other couples in the circle. by Matthew Sng click here
Past News
Catch Dave Paris and Zoe Klein at Hard
Rock Cafe, 3rd August. Their
SIX performances will be a showcase of mystical circus
adagio, haunting hustle dancing, playful Rumba, smooth
NY Style salsa and fierce Acro Salsa, Doors open at 7PM
Show starts at 10:30 PM sharp, $25 for 1 drink.
click
here
Two Left Feet is organizing a salsa
extravaganza at the Upper Club in Chijmes. Don't miss
this event.
Two Left Feet Performance Team will be
showcasing their West Coast Salsa Congress performance,
next Sunday 30 July, at Upper Club at Chijmes. (see
http://www.upperclub.com.sg)
Taiwan Salsa Festival
2006
Juz came back from Taiwan... Superb place! Lots of food,
clothes, frenly ppl... The Taiwan Salsa Fest was a great
blast! It was small, but real cosy. We met Israel and
Juan Carlos who are both really fantastic Cuban dancers.
They way they isolate their shoulders and bodies just
make you gulp... and drool. The great thing about taking
part in overseas festivals is that you get to see the
different ways........
click here
On Judging for the AC
Dance Salsa Examinations... Fair? Or
unfair?
click
here
I heard some comments about the judging criteria for the
salsa exams. I'd like to say one thing from my previous
experience in Ballet examinations. Our ballet examiners
are brought in from overseas (mostly from UK) to judge
in the different schools. They are always different
people, and they all have their own marking preferences.
I recall my ballet teacher saying things like, "this
examiner likes expression", or "this examiner is very
strict on technique"...
click
here
Asia Top Salsera Yanqing is featured
in overseas news again.
Yanqing, our very own made in Singapore
Salsera has made Singapore proud again. She has been
featured not once but two times by two different
newspaper in Taiwan. She was also interviewed by the TV
station during her visit.
click
here
Sentosa
Salsa Competition 2006
click
here
The Jitterbugs Competition was
great fun... Man, the fight was a damn tight one... I
think most of the contestants could easily have won...
It's so close, I'm glad that I wasn't judging. Sheesh!
It was tough man.
Way to go
my fellow Xen ppl! I think you all did a superb job,
considering that most of you are still so new to
dancing. heehee.............
click
here
Salsadaily have been reporting salsa
News in Singapore since 2002
click here
Salsa Academy was set up to meet the need for
a central examination body for salsa. From the start, the aim of
the Academy has been clear: to be the premier certification and
regulating body for the fledging international salsa scene.
Through our activities, certificates, examinations, seminars,
quality modules and promotion of the art of dance, we hope to
bring about a confluence of ideas in salsa and invibe a sense of
coherence in what is essentially an evolving, free flowing
street dance.
Salsa Academy recognises that salsa’s appeal
lies in the very fact that it is a “free” and constantly
progressing dance. This is perhaps salsa’s greatest strength.
Salseros are free to develop their own techniques, improvise new
moves, and introduce their own styles into the dance. No one
owns salsa. It belongs to everyone and yet no one. All around
the globe, one cannot help but observe the diversity of the
dance: LA, Columbian, New York and Cuban are but examples of the
myriad of salsa styles. Salsa Academy embraces this and realises
in the deepest sense what an asset this is to salsa.
Our vision, therefore, is not to bring in a strict set of rules
to regulate the dance, but to bring a sense of order and
organisation to it. Through that, we hope the picking up,
excelling in, and performing the dance would become far more
rewarding and enjoyable than it is right now. Specifically, the
Academy has its sights grounded soundly in the professional
salsa scene. We believe that by raising the professional
understanding and execution of the dance, we would invariably
raise its standards and appeal in social circles.
click here
For dancers who are taking
salsa at a more relax and social pace can consider Acdance
certification which have 10 different levels. For details
click here
