Men AND Ladies Partnerwork Styling - Lead Instuctor: Manny Siverio / Assisting Instructor: Addie Diaz
Don't know what to do w/ your hands or how to look good during partnerwork? Pick up some footwork & hand styling while you're dancing w/ a partner. This class offers plenty of styling tips for both guys and gals to apply to the dance floor. Advanced Beginner and Above Levels

Cha-Cha - Lead Instuctor: Chris Alvarez / Assisting Instructor: Joey Ramos
Jump into this class to learn cool, exciting Cha-Cha steps and turn patterns you always wanted to know. The steps are a bit intricate but will thrill you when you get into the groove and the swing of the beautiful Cha-Cha dance. This is a class for Advanced Beginner and above level students.

Hip Hop Basic - Lead Instuctor: Michael Garcia / Assisting Instructor: Devin Flores
Teens Are Welcome! (Ages 13-Adult) Please sign-up your Teen or yourself to this class that is sure to be a Big hit! This Class will cover the fundamentals of hip hop dance. The workshop starts with warm up exercises. A different set of moves will be taught and broken down step by step then practiced with music. Dancers will learn modern, energetic moves along with interesting choreography you'll love. And its a great workout! Beginner & Above Levels

Hustle - Lead Instuctor: Chris Alvarez / Assisting Instructor: Inez Vega
Dance your heart away w/ beautiful turns and step while dancing to the hustle rhythm. Go back to the 70's w/ this beautiful and fun dance class. Open to All Levels

Spinning Class - Lead Instructor: Michael Garcia / Assisting Instructor: Jazmin Garcia
The spinning class works on balance, spotting and other fundamentals of the "Pivot" spinning techniques created by Santo Rico. This technique helps improves accuracy in spinning, speed and balance while dancing with a partner. Guys: learn signals to prep for the partnerwork lead. Ladies: Learn how to prep for different kinds of leads and signals from the guy.

The Addie-tude Salsa/Mambo Workshop Experience:

The Four best words used to describe an "Addie-tude Workshop" are prepared, personable, patient and experience.

Prepared:
Addie’s Salsa/Mambo workshops are well received wherever she goes because people admire how well organized she is. Like a good teacher, she does her homework and plans ahead. She makes it a point to research the caliber of students her workshop is expected to draw and then creates a tailor made lesson plan for them. The lesson plan is usually typed and printed out and lists everything she expects to teach in a natural and progressive learning order (Additional copies of the lesson plan are made available for workshop students). Addie likes to be prepared because it sets her game plan. Once she arrives to teach a workshop, she wastes no time and is ready to go straight to work. Everything is planned to the max so that people feel like there are getting their money’s worth. Special attention is given to detail with valuable dancing tips provided to both men and women. "Addie-tude" workshops are designed to be both fun and challenging. Everything is drilled and reviewed in a systematic fashion to ensure a student’s maximum learning retention.

• Personable:
  The word "personable" is probably the most common term used by students when describing Addie. She is a very humble and down to earth mambo instructor (very accessible). Its probably the main reason students feel comfortable learning from her. Its also the term that best describes her workshops.
• Patient:
  Simply said, Addie loves to teach. A quality quite evident to those taking her class for the first time. This love for teaching makes her a very encouraging and patient teacher. She generates a warm and positive learning atmosphere.
• Experience:
  Addie’s resume speaks for itself. She has been successfully teaching classes for several years and has traveled throughout the U.S. to such places as NY, LA, SF, Baltimore, Washington DC & Hawaii to teach her NY "On 2 with Addie-tude" Salsa/Mambo workshops. As an international workshop instructor she has taught in Switzerland, Canada, Japan, London & Paris. She has also been a guest instructor at the United Nations (NYC), as well as one of the invited instructors during both the 1^st and 2^nd Annual International Salsaweb Conventions. Addie is currently the only NY female mambo instructor to both direct and choreograph her own professional dance company. She also has the distinction of being the first NY instructor to bring the NY style of "On 2" Salsa/Mambo dancing to Switzerland (Zurich), France (Paris), Baltimore, San Francisco and Hawaii (not to mention the first NY female mambo director to lead a team of dancers to Hawaii, London, Paris and Zurich). She’s been featured in several publications including Hispanic Magazine, Dance Teacher Magazine, La Factoria del Sonido (The Sound Factory), MTV Employee Magazine and Salsaweb Magazine and has appeared on such talk shows as Good Morning Hawaii.

THE "ON 2" WITH ADDIE-TUDE SALSA/MAMBO WORKSHOPS:
When taking an "Addie-tude" Salsa/Mambo Workshop expect to learn

• Open Floor Shines (dance steps/solo dancing - available during all workshops)
• Turn Patterns (during workshop classes only)
• Ladies Styling (for Ladies Styling Workshops Only)
• and more with "On 2 with Addie-tude"

REGULAR WORKSHOPS (for both Men & Women):
During a regular salsa/mambo workshop, Addie divides the material being taught into two major segments: Open Floor Shines and Partner Dancing.

Left: Addie teaching one of her popular workshops in Paris during the 2nd half of her European Addie-tour 2000

Open Floor Shines (i.e. dance steps or solo dancing)
During the open floor shine segment, the class is divided into men and women. Addie usually has a male assistant present to serve as a male role model, while she serves as the female role model. The footwork to these shines are taught to the women (by Addie) in "Ladies timing", while the male group is taught in "Men’s timing". Students rotate every couple of cycles so that everyone has the opportunity of being in front of the class. All the shines are drilled, reviewed, mixed into mini-routines and executed to music so that students become comfortable and familiar with them.

Partner dancing (i.e. turn patterns)
During the partner work section, students are paired off and placed around in a circle. Addie and her partner begin by illustrating a turn pattern for the entire group to see. The pattern is gradually broken down for both men and women. Repetition is the key factor. Partners constantly practice the pattern as they switch partners. Turn patterns are first executed to the tempo of Addie’s verbal count of the clave, then finally done to music. Two to three patterns are usually taught during each seminar.

Putting it all together
Learning how to incorporate open floor shines (solo dancing/dance steps) with partner dancing is the ultimate challenge during any workshop. Depending on the length of the class, the overall learning level of the students in the class (i.e. intermediate, advanced) or the speed in which the students absorb the information of the class, Addie will provide a couple of simple learning drills that mixes these two elements together. The goal is to get students comfortable with doing open floor shines in front of a partner (and not have their timing thrown off), or to use open shines to get in and back out of turn patterns.

LADIES STYLING WORKSHOP:
Left: Addie teaching a ladies styling workshop in London
No one can teach a Ladies Styling Class like Addie can. Her workshops are very detailed and filled with a wealth of excellent styling tips. Not only can she beautifully demonstrate each dance step, but she has the uncanny knack of breaking these steps down in an easy to follow step-by-step manner (a skill which only a few mambo instructors are capable of doing). Every dance step is broken down according to "On 2" timing. Ladies Styling moves are added once students have mastered the basic principles behind the step. Occasionally, some dance step have more than one variation of ladies styling to them. When this is the case, Addie will execute these variations and let her students decide for themselves which version they rather learn. Workshops students have complemented her on this simple teaching method because they can better appreciate (see firsthand) how Addie’s styling moves add "sabor" and spice to even the simplest of dance steps. This is much the same structured used in her Instructional Video.

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