Should technique and musicality be separated in class?

By Salsa Ghost in teaching on 4 min read

Absolutely. Imagine the following situation: you are learning a new piece of footwork, still struggling to remember where to put your feet, and the teacher is emphatically shouting something along the lines of "Feel the music!" Distracting. Counterproductive. Yet, we have all been to classes like this. There is no…

Musicality?

By Salsa Ghost in musicality on 2 min read

The bane of every discussion. A plethora of opinions and definitions, yet most are incomplete. Some fall short, and some make your eyebrow twitch. There are a ton of musicality classes, but are they really teaching it, or missing the point completely? A fitting topic for a first post. Let…