Instructional Videos

Click here for instructional videos of beginner moves
Click here for instructional videos of intermediate and advanced moves

IMPORTANT NOTE:  These videos are occasionally "choppy" or "jerky."  If you find that a move is starting and stopping briefly and then resuming, just go back to the start of the video and watch again.  Generally when that happens, it hadn't downloaded fully.  So the next time through, the movement is smoother.

Beginner Moves

  1. For dancing Salsa

    Note that there is a written description of the moves below plus some other basic moves on the "Salsa steps" page of this website.  So between the videos below and that written description which covers several more moves, you should be able to learn a fair amount of beginning material right from this site!

  2. For dancing Casino de Rueda

Intermediate and Advanced Moves

Click here to see Pelota Con Dos explained in both SPANISH and English

Click here to see Abanico: Part 1  Part 2

Click here to see Evelyn:  Part 1   Part 2  (Note that this is in SPANISH.)

Click here to see Pa Ti Pa Mi

Click here to see Sombrero, Vacila, and Vacilense los dos:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see Uno

Click here to see Dos

Click here to see Candado and Candado Pa ti:
Part 1  Part 2

Click here to see Siete

Click here to see Balsero

Click here to see Exhibe and Exhibe Doble

Click here to see Beso:  Part 1  Part 2

Click here to see balsero nuevo:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see Kentucky: part 1  part 2

Click here to see Sombrero de Manny

Click here to see Adios Con La Hermana Especiale (an embellishment of Adios Con La Hermana)

Click here to see Montaņa Especiale (an embellishment of Montaņa)

Click here to see Dedo Extended: part 1  part 2

Click here to see Dedo Loco

Click here to see Sombrero Doble

Click here to see Sueter.

Click here to see Azuquita Part 1.  Click here to see Azuquita Part 2.

Click here to see Kentucky Complicado.

Click here to see Carnival Unisex.

Click here to see Cuba Libre.

Click here to see Serpiente.

Click here to see L. A. de Glen.  (Note that Serpiente and then L.A. de Glen are often ganged together.)

Click here to see La Presa.

Click here to see Carnival Complicado Part 1.  Click here to see Carnival Complicado Part 2.

Click here to see Besito Largo

Click here to see Besito Largo Especiale

Click here to see La Mia.

Click here to see Thalia

Click here to see El Classico.
Click here to see another clip of El Classico.

Click here to see Bicardi Limone

Click here to see El Sordo

Click here to see Setenta Complicado Derecha y al Revers

Click here to see El Lipton

Click here to see Dedo Saboreado: Part 1  Part 2

Click here to see Exhibe con Gancho:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see Puente Complicado and Puente al Revers ganged together:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see "Rubenada Ganging" (Rubenada ganged with several other advanced steps):
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see Thalia:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3

Click here to see Rubenada

Click here to see Carnival Extended Ganged with Thalia:
Part 1  Part 2  Part 3  Part 4

Click here to see La Bonita

Click here to see Guanabacoa

Click here to see La Jenny

Click here to see La Jenny Especiale

Click here to see Bicardi Limone

Click here to see Triple Lock

Click here to see Sin Nombre (This is the shorter, "simpler" version of the move.)
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Sin Nombre Especiale is the more complicated and longer move.  Glen taught both of these moves in our VA class in April of 2009, and you can watch the longer version in the two pieces that follow..
It was so complex that we didn't get one continuous video of the entire sequence, but we got nearly all of it in two video segments and the part in between is described verbally below.....

Click here to see Sin Nombre Especiale part 1

There is a nice component of the move in the Part 1 clip I want to point out.  In the middle of the fourth set of 8 beats, there is a copa, but it is led in a very unusual position, with the guy's hands in contact with the lady's hands only.  This requires skill both to lead and follow but it's an interesting version of a copa move.

Please note that after the end of this "part 1" video, there are some beats missing before the part 2 clip below.   In addition, the center of the circle is behind the couple as you watch part 1 but it is where the camera was located in part 2.  Here
is what happens between the two video clips in the move.  After the arm split shown at the end of Part 1 above, the leader turns the lady to her left.  Then he moves her behind him so that she is moving linearly straight back, exactly like in the move Promenade.  Then when the lady is facing the same way as the leader but is behind him, he turns her to her right, leading her with his right hand---exactly as we do in the move LA de Glen.  Then the leader turns left to face her. 

At this point we pick up where the video in Part 2 begins.  Specifically, the leader turns the lady to her left while his left arm goes over her head, and then unwinds her to her right, about one and a half to one and three quarters of a turn.  He then throws her right arm behind her waist...  You can watch the rest in Part 2!  (And note the cool arm toss to behind the lady's back at the beginning of the third set of 8 beats in Part 2.)

Click here to see Sin Nombre Especiale part 2
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Click here to see Conquita con Melao

Click here to see Abanico Complicado

Click here to see Abanico Complicado Complicado (not a mistake)

Click here to see Carnival

Click here to see Flamenco Caliente

Click here to see The Promenade

Click here to see Beso Complicado with Straight Jacket

Click here to see Exhibe con Gancho

Click here to see La Tuya

Click here to see La Presa

Click here to see La Presa Extended

Click here to see Consorte

Click here to see Noventa

Click here to see Setenta con Gancho

Click here to see Sombrero Doble

Click here to see Bebe

Click here to see a class that Barb taught at the Puerto Rico Congress

Click here for video clips of Barb's workshop at the 2007 Miami Salsa Congress

Thanks to all those who helped in the preparation of these videos--Ilene, Rita, Sheila, Rodrigo, Anka, Fred, Monica, etc.--as well as to Glen for patient instruction in bringing many of these moves to life.

There are also some additional videos available in a pay-per-view format, that Danceintime prepared. They are at the following website in case anyone would like to check them out: http://www.theclave.com/artist/danceintime/2/table.htm  



Copyright Barbara Bernstein of DanceInTime.com, 2005