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Program Description
Event Details
Introduction to Salsa Dancing
Looking for a fun, healthy activity to add to your lifestyle? Join DeSueño Dance for this workshop and get moving. Dance is an excellent way to relieve stress and connect socially through movement. Your dance instructor will be your guide as you begin learning to dance Salsa--one of the most popular dances in the world.
This workshop is designed to give participants an introduction to Salsa dancing. Learn basic steps and movements to dance to various Salsa songs. DeSueño will teach movements that people will learn individually and not as partners. In Salsa, this is called footwork, shines, or pasitos. This is a footwork workshop so no partners are necessary.
This introduction to Salsa teaches participants:
● A brief history of Salsa
● Basic, foundational steps for dancing salsa
About DeSueño Dance
DeSueño is a dance company that fuses Afro-Latin, Jazz, and contemporary movements under the direction of Denita Inez. DeSueño shares dance through performances, workshops, and social dancing. Since its inception, DeSueño has performed and taught at various events including Chicago SummerDance, Chicago Salsa Congress, Chicago Dance Month, Night Out in the Parks, Open Boulevards, Bronzeville Summer Nights, and various private and corporate events.
Disclaimer(s)
Physical Activity
By joining this class, you declare that you are physically fit and ready to participate and understand any physical activity may involve some risk of injury. You may rest at any time during the class. It is your responsibility to consult with your physician with respect to any past or present injury, illness, health problem, or any other condition or medication that may affect your participation.
The participant assumes all risks of injury and illness that may result from such participation. The participant agrees to waive and release the Oak Park Public Library, its officers, employees, trustees, and agents and shall hold such persons/entity harmless from any and all liability for any claim, suit, or other cause of action which might arise from injuries, illness, damages, or loss which may occur on account of participation in such activities.