New children Latin/ballroom dance classes
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Easter Road, Edinburgh

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A new Latin Class for children coming soon!!
Classes will be after school or Saturdays!
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Latin dance has become popular throughout the world, both in social settings and in competitions. Not all styles of Latin dance are appropriate to teach to young children, but the basic patterns in Meringue, Cha-Cha and Salsa are fairly easy for a child to learn. Because these Latin dances each has its own rhythm, they are a great way to introduce different rhythms to children.
Meringue
Meringue is a perfect dance to start with because it is so simple and will get the children up and moving. Because of the simple rhythm, you also can introduce some of the basic Latin techniques.
Salsa
The basic pattern in salsa is slightly more complicated rhythmically because you do not step on each beat, and it is a bit more structured than Meringue. The technique is the same, and so continue stepping on the balls of your feet. Start by standing on your right foot. Step forward on the left, replace the weight back to the right foot and bring your left foot back. Step back on your right foot, replace the weight forward to the left foot and bring the right foot forward. Each step is a change of weight rather than a touch or tap.

The timing is very important. Step on counts one, two and three. Hold count four, and step on counts five, six and seven. Hold count eight. Each pattern has eight counts in order to go along with the music. The tricky parts are the holds. Try clapping or snapping on counts four and eight to make sure you do not take a step when you should be holding.
Cha-Cha
Cha-Cha is a fun and upbeat dance. The technique of stepping to the balls of your feet is the same, and allow the knees to bend and hips to move as you did in Meringue. The basic pattern is composed of a rock step and the triple cha-cha-cha step or chasse.

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