SalsaTO.ca - Performer - Instructor - Choreographer

Services

Questions, Dips Workshop Queries? SalsaTO@gmail.com

Private lessons, demos, shows, club classes? We're available!

Have a group and want to learn together? We're available!

Custom Workshops - including Nightclub Safe Dips & Tricks; Drops & Tricks.

Will perform at your function or event & your guests will enjoy our quick and easy Learn-to-Salsa fun class!

Performance Video Links

SalsaTO - 1 Nov. Show - Dips & Tricks.

SalsaTO Show Dips & Tricks- Short Video.

SalsaTO.ca' - Dance - Fitness Background

SalsaTO.ca's Mike has been involved in dance and stage since the 70s - on stage and behind stage.

SalsaTO.ca's Mike & Sharon bring infectious energy, audience connection and playful choreography to the stage and the dance studio.

Choreographing, competing and performing Salsa since 2002.
Performed in the 2008 and 2009 Winter Salsa Carnival, the Festival of Dance 2003, 2004.
Competed in the last of the fabled Berlin Toronto Dance (Salsa) Competitions, placing third in the amateur class.

Teaching Salsa for absolute beginners for seven years.

Has appeared in several feature movies including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Has performed, danced and sang in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas on stage as second tenor through two decades and worked backstage, as a choreographer, set builder.

Holds a degree in Education with an undergraduate honours history degree, qualifications in Adult Education.

SalsaTO.ca's Mike & Sharon continually learn new dance and stage techniques from recognized experts.

Has training in Ballet Jazz. Sharon has ballet training, including pointe.

Has trained under Dave Paris, Billy Fajardo & Katie Marlow - meticulous and the safest aerial, lift and drop specialists, world class judges and stage choreographers currently active in the North American and global salsa, ballroom and hustle scene.

Has trained under recognized Toronto specialists Angus Dirnbeck, Jennifer Aucoin, Vanesa Stay, Oscar Naranjo, Giovanni Torres, Elizabeth Sadowska.

Trained under North American and global entertainers, choreographers, performers and teachers Al Espinoza & Karla, Edie "The Salsa Freak," World Champions Oliver & Luda; UK based "Super Mario," a partner work specialist, Juan Calderon.

Been teaching aerobic dance and fitness for 20 years, teaches "Zumba without the Z," before it was trademarked and hit the mainstream, with elements of the West Indies, Cha Cha, and Brazil's Lambada.

Earned FOLP certification in movement, exercise design and musicality and have CanFit Pro training in exercise design and movement and choreography.



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