Please see below for a quick overview of all QUEEN SALSA Classes and Parties:
CLASSES (NORTH LONDON)
Mondays and Wednesdays (FINCHLEY), from 8pm onwards, at FINCHLEY UNITED SERVICES CLUB, 307 Ballards Lane, London, N12 8LY (Corner of Dale Grove). Cost: £7.00 for one class / £12.00 for two. Dancing / Practice till 11pm. LOW COST DRINKS AT THE BAR!
Tuesdays (BARNET SOUTH), from 8pm (SHARP), at BARNET SOUTH COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION, THE CENTRE, Mays Lane, BARNET, Herts EN5 2DY (Next to the Co-op Supermarket). Cost: Class & Club: £7.00 / Club only: £2.00. Club dancing from 9pm onwards. LOW COST DRINKS AT THE BAR!
Thursdays (TUFNELL PARK) - NEW...as of 15th MAY 2008!!!, from 8pm onwards, at TUFNELLS BAR & CLUB (the home of CASA DEL RITMO), 162 Tufnell Park Road, London N7 0EE (3 minutes walk from Tufnell Park Tube & 5 minutes walk from Holloway Road Odeon Cinema). Cost: Class & Club: £7.00 / Club only: £3.00. Club dancing / Practice from 10pm till late. LIGHT SNACKS / TAPAS & GREAT VALUE DRINKS AT THE BAR!
CLASSES (SOUTH LONDON)
Tuesdays (BRIXTON HILL), from 7:30pm onwards, at SOUTH SIDE BAR, 144 Brixton Hill, London, SW2 1SD (5 mins from Brixton Tube Station - Buses: 45, 59, 118, 133, 159, 250, 333). Cost: Class & Club £7.00 / Club only: £3.00. Club dancing from 9:30pm onwards with DJ Mr Bilongo. In association with OLA LATINA (www.olalatina.co.uk). LARGE SELECTION OF DRINKS AND DELICIOUS RESTAURANT MENU!
For more information about all QUEEN SALSA Classes, please click here, or call Mina or Steve on: 07958 578 962, or Ani X on: 07796 956 767 (Evenings & Weekends ONLY), or email: mina@queensalsa.com.
PARTIES
Mina QUEEN SALSA and her team would like to thank everyone that came to her second QUEEN SALSA Dance Party of 2008 on Saturday 14th June 2008.
We had a great crowd of Salseros and everyone had a great time. DON'T MISS THE NEXT ONE!
Our next QUEEN SALSA Dance Party will be on Saturday 4th October 2008. Please click here for more information.
In the meantime, QUEEN SALSA, in association with APOLLO SOUND, OLA LATINA and AFROCUBAN PA'TI bring you CASA DEL RITMO, a New Monthly Party Night on Fridays promoting LIVE Salsa Music, Dance & More in an established Music and Dance Venue in Tufnell Park, North London.
If you missed our last two Party Nights, then you lost out.
Be a winner this time and come to our next Party Night on Friday 11th July 2008.
CASA DEL RITMO -- On the Second Friday of every Month @ Tufnells -- The NEW Monthly Party Night in North London featuring the best LIVE Salsa Bands in the UK, and more!
For more information about this, please click here.
For more information about all QUEEN SALSA Party Events, please click here.
CONGRATULATIONS!
To Mina Queen Salsa’s students: Anwar Azari and Catherine Salter (Ani and Cat), Anupam Deep Singh and Elvira Gheno & Tony Gheno. They all learned their Salsa with Mina from scratch and have all trained hard to become Salsa Champions in their own right.
Ani and Cat began learning Salsa with Mina just a few years ago. Around Easter 2005 Mina teamed them up together and started training them for competitions. Drawing on her extensive Salsa teaching experience, she set about creating some routines and choreographies that would raise Ani and Cat’s game, and lead them to a point where they could potentially triumph at any competition they entered.
Ani and Cat trained industriously, learning with intent any and all of the routines that Mina gave them, and practiced long and hard to improve their performance and to raise their confidence levels. After a few doubts at the beginning, they persevered and are now the proud owners of the following titles: ‘Salsa Champs’ First South East England Open Amateur Salsa Dance Champions for 2005 – 2006 (Maidstone, UK) and World Cuban Amateur Salsa Champions for 2006 – 2007 (Miami, USA). They were also runners up in the Semi-Professional category of the ‘Salsa Champs’ Second South East England Open Salsa Dance Championship for 2006 – 2007 (Folkstone, UK), and are now also the first North West England Amateur Salsa Champions for 2007 – 2008 (Preston, U.K.).
Anupam and Elvira only started learning Salsa with Mina, again from scratch, in April and January 2006, respectively. They had heard of Ani and Cat’s success the previous year and asked Mina if she could train them in a similar way to achieve a similar, or the same success. Mina said that she would do her best to help them achieve this, but they would have to promise to follow her instructions very carefully and be prepared to work extremely hard.
Thankfully, Mina did her best, and Anupam and Elvira kept their promise. After some intensive fast-track training sessions, starting in May 2006, plus a lot of hard work and practice on Anupam and Elvira’s part, they too decided, with some trepidation of course, to enter the Second ‘Salsa Champs’ Salsa Competion in Folkstone, Kent. And, once again, a couple from the Queen Salsa camp came away with the top amateur prize. Anupam and Elvira are now the proud owners of the following title: ‘Salsa Champs’ Second South East England Open Amateur Salsa Dance Champions for 2006 – 2007 (Folkstone, UK).
Well, they've done it again! Ani and Cat produced another outstandingly theatrical performance at the official North West Open Amateur Salsa Championships in Preston, Lancashire on Saturday 21st April 2007 - organised by Salsa North West (www.salsanorthwest.co.uk) - to become the first North West England Amateur Salsa Champions for 2007 - 2008.
Ani and Cat achieved First Place in the Cuban Category and First Place overall (All Categories together).
Well done Ani and Cat!!! Once again, you've done us proud.
Well done also to Elvira Gheno and Tony Gheno for achieving Second Place in the Cuban Category and Fourth Place overall in the same championships. For more about Elvira and Tony’s Salsa exploits, please click here.
WOW...
We, at QUEEN SALSA definitely think Anwar is a man on a mission. On this occasioin, he decided to give Salsa a miss and try something new...Bachata.
With just around a month to go before the start of the competition, he decided he'd like to compete in a style of Latin Dance which, up to that point, he knew very little about.
With a great deal of hard work, intensive training and dedication to the cause, along with another of his dance partners Alina Muskvina, who is also a highly dedicated and hard working amateur dancer, they tried their luck, entered the competition... and won the first ever Amateur Bachata title for 2008 - 2009 at the Official 2nd Annual North West England Open Amateur Salsa (and Bachata) Championships, which took place in Preston on Saturday 19th April 2008.
These Championships were approved by the British Dance Council and sponsored by the UKA, who supplied the trophies.
They were also organised by Phil & Karen, and all the team, at Salsa North West.
For more information about these Champion - ships, please visit the Salsa North West website at: www.salsanorthwest.co.uk
