Why take this workshop: This is a fantastic workshop that will really help connect you to the music. It will increase your dancing skills, and provide you with insights that very few people have. Most of all - it will be fun, educational, and make a real impact on the dance floor. You'll learn and explore the connections between Salsa dance styles and the fascinating rhythms which accompany them. Led by Afro-Caribbean pianist, composer and recording artist Rebeca Mauleón, this workshop will help salsa dancers of all levels better understand the nuances and complexities of Afro-Cuban and other rhythms at the heart of the salsa phenomenon with a step-by-step breakdown of important patterns and rhythms (such as the "clave") and the various percussion rhythms.

Workshop Description

Open to dancers of all levels - as well as musicians - interested in truly understanding the relationship between popular Latin music and dance, this workshop will teach participants the correlation between various popular rhythms and the dance steps that go with them.  Participants will listen to as well as play assorted rhythms and instruments, then demonstrate new-found knowledge by dancing to hot recorded music!  Some percussion instruments will be provided, but feel free to bring your own; claves, maracas, guiros and other small percussion are ideal.

Rhythms and dances covered include Cuban rumba, son, cha-cha-cha, conga and guaracha, Puerto Rican bomba and plena, and Dominican merengue.

No musical experience is required!

SCHEDULE: 5:00-5:30  Registration, 5:30-7:00 PM  Workshop

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There is limited space in this workshop and it will likely sell out.  Please pay in advance.

Cost & Registration:

In Advance: $30 for workshop and Admission to Cafe Cocomo for live music and dancing

          In Advance: $20 for workshop alone (No club admittance)

At the Door: $35 workshop and nightclub, $25 for the workshop.

(You will receive a receipt via email. Please Print and bring with you, these will serve as your tickets for entry. Your names will be a the door.)

The club is 21+ and the workshop is 18+.

Questions?  Call 415-668-9936 or email, baysalsa@yahoo.com

Teacher Bio

Rebeca Mauleón has been a leading force in Latin Jazz and Afro-Caribbean music for over 20 years as a composer, pianist, arranger, author and educator. She has recorded and performed with Tito Puente, Carlos Santana, Cachao López, Steve Turré, Patato Valdez, Francisco Aguabella, José Luis Quintana "Changuito," Giovanni Hidalgo, Joe Henderson, Armando Peraza, Orestes Vilató, Mickey Hart and the Planet Drum Ensemble, and the Machete Ensemble, of which she was co-musical director for nearly 10 years. Mauleón has also been commissioned as a composer and arranger by Tito Puente, Steve Winwood, Ray Obiedo, Oakland Chorus, San Francisco Jazz Festival and Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

Cafe Cocomo is located at 650 Indiana in San Francisco

DIRECTIONS

101 TO 280 NORTH TO MARIPOSA EXIT.

RIGHT ON MARIPOSA. RIGHT ON INDIANA. 1/4 MILE ON RIGHT.

BAY BRIDGE TO 101. TAKE CAESAR CHAVEZ EAST EXIT. 1/2 MILE UNDER 280 FREEWAY OVERPASS.

LEFT ON INDIANA, 8 BLOCKS. BETWEEN 19TH & MARIPOSA