Dancers / Stars

Dance Company name: Salsa A La Cubana

Web site address: http://www.salsaalacubana.fr.tc/

Contact:- Patrice - salsa_a_lacubana@yahoo.fr

freminet.juliette@wanadoo.fr - Juliette

Patrice and Juliette are instructors, performers and choreographers specialising in Salsa-Casino/Rueda/Miami style on 1, with additional modern dances (jazz, hip-hop) and also classical dance, gymnastics, acrobatic rock, merengue, Afro-Cuban dance and son. They are based in the Paris area in France about 20 kms from the capital and are the founders and directors of the Salsa a La Cubana Association, which organises and develops activities around Cuban dances (courses, performances, salsa events etc.).

They have been involved in many performances in famous Paris salsa venues, as members of Santiago a Santa Clara band and as a couple. Juliette brings to her salsa the knowledge from her profession as a fitness instructor, specialising in Latin aerobics, stretching, fitsteps, and muscular reinforcement.

They began dancing in early 1998 and were fortunate to have the exposure to a rich variety of instructors in different salsa styles. Paris has many qualified instructors in Cuban salsa, son, Afro-Cuban, Miami, Puerto Rican, LA/NY and Colombian style and Patrice and Juliette have had lessons with them all! However their preference is Cuban style and they have developed a close sensual salsa style based on many arm hooks and knots where as a couple they are constantly interlaced without tension.

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