Introduction to Salsa Dancing for Beginners
Step-by-step instruction for men and women gets you dancing in minutes!
Tenia Worick, award-winning salsa instructor, makes learning salsa exciting and easy. Discover the allure of the world's most popular partner dance as Tenia guides you through the steps, rhythm, and style with precision and passion!
Tenia teaches teaches the fundamentals of salsa dancing, breaking down the basic steps, footwork, body position, partnering, turns, and patterns. 15 combinations are taught in depth, with the men's and women's steps broken down individually then danced together with music.
Course Curriculum
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StartIntroduction (basic steps, left and right turns, hook turn) (3:24)
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StartClosed position with her right turn (1:37)
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StartOpen position and her left turn (1:33)
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StartClosed to open position and right turns (1:38)
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StartHer right and his left turn with head loop (2:41)
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StartHandshake right turn with head loop and his hook (1:19)
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StartCross body lead (1:23)
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StartCross body spin (1:49)
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StartCrisscrossed right turn with head loop (3:14)
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StartCheck step with his right turn, duckdown (2:15)
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StartBack spot turn with hip spin (1:58)
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StartCumbia Step (2:04)
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StartTwo hand cumbia pass (3:39)
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StartQuick left walk and rotating basic (1:36)
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StartBack spot turn and shoulder tap (2:00)
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StartRight turn cross with double back spot and dip (2:41)
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Your Instructor
TENIA RAENI WORICK is an award-winning salsa dance instructor, dancer, and choreographer. She teaches dance lessons in Los Angeles. She co-founded L.A.’s first all-female performance team, “Stiletto Salsa”, has performed on stage with Tito Puente and is a featured dancer in television and film. She is known for hosting Salsa Meet Ups throughout L.A.