most Monday's at the wonderful queer-led ✨ Love Affair Basement ✨
Right by A Portuguese Love Affair who have created the space 🌱🌺
Platforming different Queer Teachers we'll be teaching different Salsa styles, Levels and other Afro-Latin Dances each Monday 19:00 - 20:00 followed by a dance social playing music according to the class taught that week.
Monday 28.4.25 Abi and Nvard will be teaching an Improving Beginners Cross Body Salsa Class 💟
This is class is not suitable for complete beginners, and is designed for people who have at least been to one beginners cross body classes / have experience dancing Salsa socially. You should feel OK dancing the basic step and leading / following the right turn. Please send a DM if you are unsure whether this is the right level for you!
We'll be building off of the very basic steps of Cross Body Salsa, footwork and partner work (we will ask you whether you want to Lead or Follow during the class). There will be less of a focus on technique compared to our courses and more emphasis on feeling the music, having fun and preparing to dance as part of the social.
You can definitely come alone to this - it's a wonderful way to meet new people, as we swap throughout so you can dance with everyone. However, if you wanna stick with your friend or boo that's totally fine too 🥰
Spots are very limited for this so get them while you can! A class ticket grants you free access to the dance social afterwards.
About the Dance Social 💟
Our socials are open to all levels, which is why we are starting with the class. We’ll also be actively facilitating the social by helping you meet new people, guiding you through how it works, and making it easy to approach new dance partners. For the first hour of the social (20:00 - 21:00), some of the more experienced dancers in the community will be taking on the role of Guardian Dancers and will be there specifically to dance with newcomers and beginners.
We'll be playing predominately Salsa with a little bit of Bachata. We also take requests during the night!
Welfare & Accessibility 💟
Along with the Teachers and Guardian Dancers from the community, there will be a Host floating around the event to give any extra support on helping everyone to feel comfy in the space.
We are actively working on making our events as safe and inclusive as possible. Please get in contact with any additional needs you might have that would be useful for us to know about.
Tickets 💟
Spots are very limited for the class, please get them online. We will sell some dance social tickets OTD for £6 up until 9pm - so try to get them online if you can.
No-one turned away for lack of funds. Please get in contact if you would like to attend but can't afford the prices.