Three Reasons Yami Shoes Work for Me
One day a lady on my Facebook feed asked what were the best shoes for social dancing. A few of the comments mentioned Yami…
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How To (Nicely) Watch Videos of Yourself Dancing
With the ubiquity of smartphones, people don’t think twice about whipping out their phone and grabbing a video at a class or a social….
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Review: Fernando Sosa World Mastery Program
If you’re involved in the Latin Dance community at all, you’ve probably seen ads on your Facebook or Instagram with big name dancers and…
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Event Review: An American in Paris (International Salsa Congress)
Some of you I’m sure are already way ahead of me on this, but I recently discovered just how amazing it is to attend…
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Dancing With a Weird (But Fairly Mild) Injury
Last week, I sliced the tip of my left index finger off with a bread knife. Luckily, it wasn’t serious and didn’t require stitches…
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Five Choreographic Tips To Mix Up Your Social Dancing
People often gravitate toward social dance because it doesn’t rely on set choreography and has a more spontaneous and improvisational nature. However, that doesn’t…
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Salsera Tries Tango: The Beginning of a Love Story
I’ve been fascinated by Argentine Tango for a while. The intensity, the focus, the precision, the musicality—it’s something that I’ve long admired, but has…
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Dancers Gift Round Up
It’s that time of year. At least in the United States, as soon as you get into the months that end with “ember,” it…
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Why Social Dance Is Addicting (According to Tony Robbins)
The “Why we do what we do” TED Talk by Tony Robbins has more than 20 million views on the TED website. In the…
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The Sustainable Social Dancer: Eco-Friendly and Ethical Dance Shoes
Americans throw away more than 10 million tons of clothes, or about 80 pounds per person, every year. And the EPA estimates that about 84…
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