Attitude Dance Studio – dance lessons

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Our Courses

• Salsa

Salsa is a Latin street dance that originated in the Afro-Caribbean and became popularized in the United States when emigrants from Cuba and Puerto Rico fled to Spanish Harlem, New York due to social and economic pressures. The dance is danced by 2 people (a leader and a follower) to a salsa beat with an 8-beat measure. At Attitude Dance Studio (ADS), we teach Cross Body Style salsa (which literally means the leader sends the lady across his body when executing fancy dance patterns).

• Street Cha-Cha & Merengue

Street Cha-Cha is a great introduction for ‘On 1’ Salsa dancers who would eventually like to learn how to dance New York Style Salsa.

As mambo music and dance developed, musicians experimented with new beats and tempos. Triple mambo was created by tripling one of the beats very rapidly. When you dance to this fast rhythm, the scraping and shuffling of the feet produces a sound that goes a bit like "cha cha cha". The tripling in the rhythm translates to a rapid weight shift from left to right to left to right , and vice-versa. As such, a lot of the so-called ‘On2 Groove’ and ‘On2 Body Movement’ are almost naturally produced.

The emphasis in this course is again on: musicality; body movement; and, lead & follow techniques rather than patterns.

Merengue is the national dance of the Dominican Republic and to some extent, Haiti, its neighbouring land. There is a lot of variety in Merengue music. Tempos vary a great deal and the Dominicans enjoy a sharp quickening of pace towards the later part of the dance. There is a lot of hip action and rhythmic gyrating of the pelvis when one does this dance. Merengue dancing takes up very little space, and is ideally suited to small crowded dance floors.

Street Cha-cha & Merengue may be taught as a combined course or as separate dance courses.

• Exotic Dance

Exotic Dance

Do moves like the Hooker Walk, Kitten Crawl, Angle Walk, or the art of striptease intrigue you, or that special someone in your life? Unleash your sensuality in the hottest way to get fit !!

Exotic Dance is a class for women, by women - for all ages and sizes, regardless whether you share your new skills with anyone else . You will learn moves designed to help you find your inner grace and rhythm, with a series of sensual dance patterns to fine-tune your body language and release your inhibitions !! We focus on muscle toning; body isolation; flexibility and strength building; learning choreographed dance patterns and most of all… unleashing your wild side !!

Pole Work

Climb, spin and glide your way to the next level in the art of Exotic Dance: Poles. Learn how to mesmerise an audience with dynamic pole tricks such as the Fireman’s Spin, or the Knee-Hook Spin, not to mention a host of upside down moves. Best of all, learn it safely in the professional hands of our instructors, in the privacy of our studios.