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!
Mondays (MANOR HOUSE), from 7:20pm onwards, at THE MANOR CLUB, 277 Seven Sisters Road, London, N4 2DE (Above Manor House Tube Station – Piccadilly Line - & next door to the Costcutter Supermarket). Buses: 29, 141, 253, 279 & 341. Cost: £7.00 Class & Club / £4.00 Club only. Dancing / Practice from 9:30pm till late with DJ Luis Libres of Mr Bongo Salsa (www.mrbongosalsa.com). In association with SALSA IN HOTELS (www.salsainhotels.com). GREAT SELECTION OF DRINKS AT THE BAR!
Tuesdays (BARNET), 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!
CLASSES (South London)
Tuesdays (BRIXTON), 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 our classes, please click here, or call Mina or Steve on: 07958 578 962, or AniX 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 first QUEEN SALSA Dance Party of 2008 on Saturday 15th March 2008.
We had a very good crowd of Salseros and we all had a great time. DON'T MISS THE NEXT ONE!
Our next QUEEN SALSA Dance Party will be on Saturday 14th June 2008. Please click here for more information.
In the meantime, QUEEN SALSA & SALSA IN HOTELS invite you to join them for some Superb Latin Magic in their new SALSA SUITE @ THE MANOR CLUB - Manor House, London N4.
Come and join us on the FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH - starting on the 4th April 2008.
For more information about the above-mentioned QUEEN SALSA Dance 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.
