To see when our next courses start in 2025, click here.

Our beginners' course starts from the beginning every eight weeks, so you never have to wait too long to join us. However, we will often accept new students up to week three of each course (please let us know so we can give you a quick catch-up lesson beforehand).

Our beginners' course has often been close to, or at, capacity since our return from the restrictions, so please book to reserve your place(s). 

Our expected start date for 2025 (at the time of writing) is 13th January 2025.

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Going to your first Salsa social/party event can be daunting and even a little overwhelming for the uninitiated.

So, here are a few tips on how to survive and get the most out of your first social, along with a few Dos and Don’ts.

Our students often ask us what dance shoes to get and where to get them. So, here are a few tips:

1) The best advice we can give you when starting out is, don’t go for ridiculously high-priced shoes, especially if you’re not attending socials and are only attending classes. Prices vary massively.

2) Ladies, if you’re looking for a heel, you will find many dance shoes come with a choice in heel height, and we always recommend going no higher than a 2.5-inch heel when you first start out. The heels will come in varying shapes depending on their height.

We have been asked this a few times, so to confirm - we are open as normal for all three Bank Holiday Mondays in May this year.

The start dates for this article have now concluded - please see the latest start dates article.

Our beginners' course starts from the beginning every eight weeks, so you never have to wait too long to join us. However, we will often accept new students up to week three of each course (please let us know so we can give you a quick catch-up lesson beforehand).

Our beginners' course has been close to, or at, capacity since our return from the restrictions, so please book to reserve your place(s).

Click here to book your place.

It's been a while since I've put up some music picks, so here are a few tracks to get you up and moving on these cold December days.

Salsa

Monday, the 5th of December, is our last class for 2022, followed by Monday, the 12th, where we see the return of our end-of-year Chrimbo class party.

We then close for a well-earned break over the holidays for when we return in the New Year!

• Monday 5th December - last classes of the year
• Monday 12th December - end of year Christmas Party
• Monday 19th December - closed
• Monday 26th December - closed
• Monday 2nd January 2022 - closed
• Monday 9th January 2022 - First evening back with new classes & courses

Please keep an eye on the website and Facebook for any updates. Any announcements will also be made via the newsletter.

Update:
We will be having two nights in one to make up for the missing night on the 19th starting at 6 pm. More details below.

Due to the sad passing of HRH Queen Elizabeth II, our venue will be closed for her funeral on Monday, the 19^th. Obviously, this means there will be no classes this week.

We will be open again as usual on Monday the 26^th.

If you know anyone who had planned on going, please make them aware, saving them a potentially wasted journey.

Beginners Course
The closure on the 19^th does mean a disruption in the current 8-week beginners’ course.

As we won’t be able to push the course back a week, we will have an extra hour on the 3^rd of October.

We will start at 6pm with a break before our regular beginners’ class start time of

Our beginners' course starts from the beginning every eight weeks, so you never have to wait too long to join us. However, we will often accept new students up to week three of each course (please let us know so we can give you a quick catch-up lesson beforehand).

Our beginners' course has been close to, or at, capacity since our return from the restrictions, so please book to reserve your place(s).

Monday the 13th of December sees us host our last classes of 2021; from then, we are closed over the holidays until Monday the 10th of January 2022.

• Monday 13th December – last classes of the year
• Monday 20th December - closed
• Monday 27th December - closed
• Monday 3rd January 2022 – closed
• Monday 10th January 2022 – First evening back with new classes & courses

Please keep an eye on the website and Facebook for any updates. Any announcements will also be made via the newsletter.

We are delighted to announce that from Monday 1st November Salsa classes will be running every Monday at the top floor function room at the Imperial Sports Ground (used to be known as South Bristol Sports Centre).

There have been a number of changes not least the venue and day we run classes. Sadly, due to the effects of the lockdowns because of Covid have had an effect on the club and with the virus still very much present in all our lives this will ultimately have an effect on the numbers of customers we see come through our doors. Although we hope our many loyal supporters will still be able to come and join us it does mean that until things improve, we cannot run our normal 6 classes on an evening, and this has led to us having to lose our wonderful higher-level teacher Alex Fright for the

Please note this post has now been superseded and won't be updated further - we have been back and open since the 1st of November 2021. See later blog posts for further announcements for classes and any potential disruption.

Current update - 8th September 2021

We hope you are all doing well.

As much as we love dancing and passing that on to others, we have been very aware of the health and well-being of ourselves and our students.

We are meeting up at the end of September to discuss the way forward, and we will update you as soon as decisions have been made and we know more.

Updates and announcements will be made in due course in the newsletter, on here and on Facebook.

Update - 1st May 2021

It’s been over a year since we held our last “in person” salsa classes in Knowle and

I often get asked by beginner salsa dancers for music recommendations, so I have listed a few tracks below to get you started.

These are slower and have a more distinct beat to help you pick out the timing.

Leave a comment below if you have any more suggestions!

Salsa, with count

We have beginners salsa courses starting directly after every 8-week course has concluded, so you never have to wait too long. We will take new students with little or no experience up to week 3; just let us know, and you can come in for a quick catch-up before the main class. After this time, we may only take on new students for the current running course if you've had previous dance experience.

We're taking a well-earned break over the Christmas and New Year holidays, but will be back in January with new classes and ready to burn off those calories!

Closure and opening dates are below - we hope to see you all in the New Year!

Thursday 12th December 2019 - Last class of the year (class party)

Thursday 19th December 2019 - CLOSED
Thursday 26th December 2019 - CLOSED
Thursday 2nd January 2020 - CLOSED
Thursday 9th January 2020 - Open as normal for new classes and courses

We return with the usual five levels of salsa - and back by popular demand, our first 8-week "non-salsa" dance course of the year with Alex will be Bachata-Tango!

Save your space(s) and book online now!

Theodore Roosevelt once said that “Nothing worth having comes easy” – I’ll expand on that slightly by saying “nothing worthwhile comes easy”.

This is true of learning how to dance.

There are a few, lucky, people out there who pick up the art of dance naturally and breeze through to greatness without blinking an eye (or so it seems). However, for the rest of us mere mortals, we have to work at it.

For me, learning to dance (starting with salsa) has potentially been the best decision I made – I have made many good friends and have a decent social life, I even have my current job through the connections I have made from learning to dance.

The people you meet are wide-ranging, are friendly, open and welcoming.

But to get to the point where you can start getting the most out of dancing through

We have beginners salsa courses starting directly after every 8-week course has concluded, so you never have to wait too long. We will take new students with little or no experience up to week 3; just let us know and you can come in for a quick catch-up before the main class. After this time, we may only take on new students for the current running course if you've had previous dance experience.

Christmas is close at hand and the weather's getting colder, so here are a few tracks to help keep you warm...

Oh my days, can you believe it!? November is nearly at an end which can only mean one thing! The Salsa Bristol Christmas Party night is nearly upon us again! Yes, that's right it's time to raid the wardrobe for a sparkly outfit or go in search through the Christmas decorations for that hidden Santa Costume you hide from the kids every year!

As some of you are aware, Alex and Hannah are off on a long holiday for several weeks, so from November 18th to December 6th we will be having guest teachers filling in for them.

Alex and Hannah will be back for our Christmas party on the 13th December.