Nadreck's temporary dance page

Folks there are massive changes to this website comming soon but in the meantime I wanted to put up some vidoes from Expo Latino so I created a web page with some of them, I will get some more on there shortly

LATEST DANCE CLASS SUMMARIES

Victor and Gaby's Awesome Workshops in Calgary:

Week 2 Mambo Productions Int/Adv Salsa Class Sept 24 2008

Victor and Gaby Beginner/Intermediate summary from June 26th 2008

Victor and Gaby Advanced summary from June 26th 2008

Latest from Mambo Productions:

Alex and David Class summary from June 24th 2008

Alex and Alejandro On 2 turn patterns workshiop May 3^rd 2008

Alejandro Shines workshop May 3^rd 2008

Link to the rest of the videos

Nadreck's Temporary Dance page (for over a year - some temporary eh?)

NOTE about my web site - it is moving to a new server downtown over the next few days/weeks (ok obviously MONTHS) and video downloads will be much faster with its 10Mb/s connection to the internet backbone at the Group Telecom facility. However there may be a few hiccoughs along the way.

GENTLEMEN OF SALSA

A while back one of my nieces got me addicted to Facebook inviting me in to see pictures of her daughter. I found that there are several large communities of Calgary Salsa Dancers (and even larger ones in other places) there. I have created my own called Gentlemen of Salsa devoted to the idea that men who dance Salsa should be concerned with the experience their partners have on the dance floor. I honestly want to know if something I do when dancing makes it less than enjoyable for my partner. It also behoves us, as those who lead, to make sure that other couples are not disadvantaged by what we do. However now I am using that group to host any dance venue I plan to attend as a Facebook 'event' and I am posting the videos I add here to there as well.

Facebook groups for Salsa

If you want to join any of the Calgary Facebook Salsa groups click on the links here, if you are not already logged on to Facebook it will offer you the opportunity to log on or create a new account if you are not yet on Facebook:

Alberta Dancesport

David Joseph Fan Club

Gentlemen of Salsa

Salsa Scene

University of Calgary Student Dance Club

Mambo Productions

Spring 2008 looks like a great time to take dance courses

There are an awful lot of courses going on

Alberta Dancesport

Last fall they started an International Style Latin course taught by Martin Lefebvre and Diana Matiaszow, on Monday nights (as well as a children's course) starting March 31^st It was very good, it is being offered again at and a more advanced level has been announced as well, these are 1 hour course running for 8 weeks. As well Kelly Caty's amazing Level 3 Salsa is Friday nights running 8 weeks for $75 starting March 28^th. There are many other courses offered. Besides the instructors mentioned David Joseph, the Gentleman of Salsa himself, also teaches their intermediate level courses on Saturday's. See their schedule for more information. Their Friday, Saturday and Sunday classes run out of the VRRI near the U of C, their Monday Night Classes run out of the Expo Latino Studio near the Coast Plaza Hotel.

Mambo Productions

Has a line up of Salsa courses that they run out of the Downtown YWCA on 5th Avenue SE and MacLeod Trail. Alex Sell and David Erne will be teaching a combined intermediate and advanced Salsa class Tuesdays from 7:30 to 8:30pm starting on March 18th. A full description of the courses and costs can be found here. The full schedule for the first spring semester:

MAMBO PRODUCTIONS Spring Session 1 Classes
Mar. 17 - May 2, 2008

Mondays: Starting Mar.17
- Level 2 Salsa (Beg./Int) / 6:30-8pm
- Level 1 Salsa (Beg.) / 8:15-9:15pm

Tuesdays: Starting Mar.18
- Nightclub Survival (Beg.) / 6:30-7:30pm
- Intermediate/Advanced Salsa / 7:30-8:30pm

Wednesdays: Starting Mar.19
- Level 1 (Beg.) / 7:00-8:00pm

Fridays: Starting Mar.21
- Level 1 (Beg.) / 8:15-9:15pm

For more information or to register call Alex at
(403)510-8300 or email alex@mambopro.com or
register online through our website:
www.mambopro.com

All classes are held at the YWCA Fitness On 5th located
at 320-5th Avenue SE, Downtown Calgary AB. (across from the Harry hays Building)

The Studio

The studio offers some Salsa classes on Monday nights with David Joseph, the Gentleman of Salsa, and Brittany Lima 2nd generation dancer and dance enthusiast. Brittany teaches a Level 3 Salsa Class and a ladies Styling Class while David teaches level 1 and 2 salsa as well as a Men's Technique course.

Check out the forums I have listed below to find out about other dance classes!

New for 2007! (hopefully before 2008 starts?)

For 2007 I am planning an ambitious new dance website: www.dancebookings.com

Until it is ready for prime time this page will continue with its original intent:

Folks I was thinking of setting something up to share videos and have discussions but a couple of places beat me too it: Alberta Dancesport just started something up. As well for over a year a variety of different organizations have been contributing announcements and event information on Cowtown Dance. Until either of these sites get organized with some way to share those little summary videos from courses and workshops I have a few videos of class summaries from The Studio and from the Swing and Salsa workshops are here for people to share.

Now I have seen another Calgary dance forum on line: Calgary Salsa.

All of the videos are linked here in a way that would let you either click on the movie to view it or that you could right click on it and choose to save it to your own hard drive. If bandwidth for my site becomes a problem, or if part of making a better web site for people interested in dancing in Calgary includes having to put controls on access to these videos I will implement something with user names and passwords. So for now access is open to anyone who has the link, but please, rather than downloading the same video several times by clicking on it to watch it, conserve bandwidth if you want to see it several times and right click on the link and choose the option: "Save target as . . ." then put it on your computers hard drive as prompted.

A note on quality: I have compressed the videos for web downloading but have kept the originals in a higher quality format, if you want a better copy it could be burned on DVD, bring me a blank in the next class you see me in and I will burn it and bring it back.

Now, without further ado, here are some videos:

Competitions and Shows from the 2007 Swing and Salsa event of June 9^th:

Note: I am still working on editing these things so as I edit them and post them on Facebook and the Alberta Dancesport website I will put them up here as well.

Jack 'n Jill Swing Competition

Showdancing Competition

Beginner Salsa Group competition and award

Intermediate Salsa Group competition with the whole field of 9 (the MC had an out of date sheet in her hand) and the return of the 6 finalists and award

Championship Group competition and award

Shows from the Jazz and Mambo Concert/Dance produced by Alex Sell of Mambo Productions

Special thank you to Alex for letting me video and post the Show Dancing from this event.

Class summaries from Alberta Dancesport

(See the Alberta Dancesport forum for videos of the class summaries and footage from events that they sponsor - you need a membership to see the class summaries but there is no charge to sign up)

Kelly's first Alberta Dancesport Level 3 class summary January 26th 2007 (note from cell phone so quality is as good as it gets will try to replace this in future weeks with better quality of same move)

7 of the Basic 10 patterns from the advanced styling class on November 5 2006 (note this was recorded from my UTStarcom cell phone and the quality of this one is as good as it gets)

End of January session summary of Level 3 Salsa Pattern and Salsa Shine with Brittany Lema

Pattern taught by David Joseph in Level II salsa January 2007

Three patterns taught by Samantha Likely of Salsa Mecca filling in for Kelly Caty in Level 3 Salsa:

Salsa Level 3 class summary presented in week 3 of a four week session - Catwalk with mild and medium caliente finish.(note this was recorded from my UTStarcom cell phone and the quality of this one is as good as it gets)

Salsa Level 3 class summary presented in week 2 of a four week session on 2006-11-20

Salsa Level 3 class summary presented in week 4 of a four week session on 2006-11-06

Salsa Level 3 class summary presented in week 3 of a four week session on 2006-10-30 (note this was recorded from my UTStarcom cell phone and the quality of this one is as good as it gets)

Salsa Level 3 class summary for the class at the studio half way through a four week course on 2006-09-18

Casino Rueda class summary from the beginner class at The Studio for 4 weeks ended 2006-05-29

Salsa Level 2 class summary for the class at The Studio for 4 weeks ended 2006-05-29

From Workshops at Swing and Salsa event put on by people from The Studio, Alberta Dancesport and Mambo Productions

Workshops by Marie Josée Strazzero and Roberto Arenas Jr.

Intermediate Paterns Workshop

Shines Workshop

Intermediate and Advanced Techniques Workshop

Workshops by Kyle Reed and Sarah Van Drake

Connections Concepts

Cool Whips

Introduction to West Coast Swing

Jack and Jill Genius