The dance world has undergone a huge make over since the pandemic. In this Blog, I tried to address the obvious, in the social dancing scene. The Void The most professionals who had the resources to sustain the 2 years managed to keep existing and sustaining after the pandemic. What went missing was a huge population of dancers at the Intermediate and Inter-advanced level that chose to come back after the pandemic. They had invested so many years into dancing as a non-professional or semi-professional activity and it was a huge part of their life. Due to the pandemic and a huge break, many sor ..read more

I want to share a funny experience that happened to me at the 3rd Hong Kong World Championship 2014. Hope you have a fun read :) I come from the era where we all wanted to look and dance differently than just looking like an image of someone else. I always tried to look for something new and different and made a lot of pioneering efforts in the community since I started to do full time! I try to avoid doing these trending Tik Tok videos or challenges because everyone does it and it doesn’t need me to do it! That’s how I feel about things. I had always been like this even from a kid. For exampl ..read more

The Latin Festival Madras 2021 was smaller but quite a memorable one as we tried to bring in all aspects of a festival. We had the pandemic edition spread over 4 weekends and one of the things we managed to pull through were the Performances. Each weekend we had a choreography ending with a show at that Sunday night. Unfortunately and coincidently, Sneha & I fell sick on the same day and the Kizomba bootcamp had to be cancelled. But all other bootcamp shows went as per schedule! Hip Hop Kick starting with the first weekend was Hip Hop bootcamp and show. Mr. Dezee a.k.a Dinesh with a profes ..read more

Since the Pandemic started, we quickly started to adapt to the new changes and kept us busy all through the tough times sharing the passion for dancing and lot of positivity! We are quite proud for what we have achieved and been doing over the pandemic! Below some of the Projects & Trainings that happened over the online training, that ended up into a Video! Salsa Madras Lockdown Kizomba Project 2020 - Djadja We started our first Zoom lessons in March and already trained 2 Salsa choreographies over Online. We wanted to try to make a video out of one of the projects from the enthusiastic da ..read more

The objective of this blog is to share some of the online tools I explored and tried to keep my dance/business going on. Please feel free to share with anyone that it might benefit. Effects of the Pandemic A lot of things have taken us by shock since the onset of the pandemic last year and we are thrown into a world of uncertainty and unknown. It been a never ending struggle since trying to keep our motivations alive and so our career! On the positive side, it also helped me personally to explore a world that I never knew it existed before and look at dancing, teaching and learning with a diff ..read more

For the first time in 5 years, Salsa Madras hosted its first Summer Showcase in April 2019 to exclusively present an evening filled with shows by the team and students alike! More than 20+ students trained in less than 3 months. Check out the 9 shows that was performed at the event organised at Alliance Francaise de Madras, Nungambakkam, Chennai. https://youtu.be/PxapmCKL-Ps Bachata Student show Song – Darte Un Beso Artist – Prince Royce Dancers – Arun & Sneha; Richard & Rakhi; Vysakh & Puja; Shuvendu & Adarsh; Deepak & Meera Choreography – Arun (India) & Angela Fayth ..read more

Are you new to Social Dancing? There are a few basic things you need to know! ,Personal Hygiene Brush your teeth everyday, twice preferably Take bath everyday, twice preferably Eat healthy Drink a lot of water Wash your clothes regularly Wash your hands after using toilet Wear a perfume or body spray. Too much isnt good either Pop in a mouth freshener to avoid bad breath Wash your socks to avoid foul smell Groom yourself well, hair, beard, nails, etc. ,Social etiquettes Ask politely for a dance. Respect the person's choice whether they say yes or no. Say "Thank you" at the end of the dance ..read more

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Salsa Madras is extremely honoured to be a part of the 11th Year Anniversary Celebrations of INDULGE. Arun Srinivasan and Sneha Vakkala from Salsa Madras had 2 shows to stun the audience with a Salsa and a Bachata show amidst the Indulge Fashion show choreographed by Karun Raman. The event was hosted by The New Indian Express at Grand Chola, Chennai. The article was written by Nascimento Pinto ..read more