Old-School Mambo: learn the musicality of the Mambo rhythm and how to apply old-school styling to present-day dancing. Many present day dancers focus on the technique and timing of dancing where as old-school dancers focus much more on dancing within the rhythms of the music - a relationship with each song which is distinctively different. Dancers learn how to break down and distinguish the musical elements in the Mambo rhythm and how to interpret them through the space within the music.
 

Son-Montuno: learn the musicality of the sweet Son-Montuno rhythm, and how to distinguish a Son-Montuno from a Cha-Cha-Cha, and know which rules were meant to be broken. In present day, when a Bolero, Guajira or Son-Montuno or any other slower rhythm is played - what do dancers do? They leave the floor; many dancers of today don't know how to dance to the long spaces in the slower music and many do not know which rules were meant to be broken. Dancers learn how to play with the space within the music of a Son-Montuno rhythm.

Many dancers step off the dance floor when they hear rhythms that don't sound like the commercial "salsa" that they're accustomed to. Producers are traveling the world teaching dancers and musicians how to recognize the rhythms of Latin music - and then how to executive the dancing associated with each rhythm.

To what rhythms is one to dance the Cha-cha-cha? Most dancers AND Latin musicians, today, call Cha-cha-cha a rhythm - but it's not a rhythm - it's a dance. While many of those who DO recognize it when they hear it - display enough courage to stay on the floor to dance it - there is still quite a lot of confusion on the dance floor as to HOW exactly to dance the traditional Cha-cha-cha.

There are 4 rhythms that one MUST dance the Cha-Cha-Cha to because of their tempos and rhythmic patterns. There are also 2 additional rhythms that one MAY dance the Cha-Cha-Cha ONLY IF these 2 rhythms are played slowly enough. Do you know which 4 rhythms one MUST dance Cha-Cha-Cha to and which other 2 one MAY if the rhythms are played slowly enough?? HINT: Think "Son" rhythms and think "tempo."

While the word "mambo" is thrown around, today, as if it were a status symbol, there are actually several different ways that Mambo is being danced, today, but which is correct?

01) Some dancers claim that Mambo can be danced "on 1" as long as he/she is "free-styling."

02) Some  claim that one is to charge "precisely" on the second beat of the rhythm, or "on 2," to be Mambo.

03) Other dancers claim that Mambo is the same Salsa - only slower.

04) Other dancers claim that Mambo is danced "literally, on the clave."

05) A handful of dancers claim that Mambo is where a dancer simply breaks "on the 2."

06) Some dancers claim that Mambo is about syncopating the steps to dance "inside the rhythm" of the music, with unrestricted body-movement, and footwork.

We teach you the answer in our WORLD-CLASS, FANTASTIC Master-class workshops! Our workshops combine a Latin musician AND dancer into EACH course, where we break down EACH of the rhythmic instruments in Latin music of EACH rhythm in order to teach dancers how to listen, interpret, recognize and executive the dancing to EACH Latin rhythm.