Your Feet Are Speaking a Language Your Mind Hasn't Learned Yet. | Ermes Dance Academy
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Your Feet Are Speaking a Language Your Mind Hasn't Learned Yet.

20 years of Latin music decoded. Finally, in one place.

Instructor: Gigi Bellomo ,
Gigi Bellomo, Full Project · Salsa Fusion Specialist

About these courses

Most dancers spend years getting better. More patterns, more figures, more classes. And they improve. But at some point, the improvement stops — not because they're not talented, but because nobody ever taught them the grammar beneath the steps.
Latin music has a language. A real one, with its own rules. The clave is the subject — the first thing you need to find. The son is the verb — the action, the movement. The cha cha chá is the complement — where everything finally makes sense together. Once you understand that structure, your body stops repeating phrases it memorized and starts building its own.
I'm Gigi Bellomo, from Bari, Italy. I've spent 20 years learning from the greatest masters of salsa, son, rumba and mambo — in Cuba, in New York, in Puerto Rico. Together with Gigi Bianco, we were among the first to create a coherent fusion of all these styles. Not mixing for the sake of mixing — fusing because we understood each root deeply enough to combine them with meaning.
My students arrive looking for new steps. They leave knowing how to read the music well enough to create their own.
That's what changes when you understand the full language. You stop depending on someone else to tell you what to do. Your body starts listening on its own.

Instructor: Gigi Bellomo
Lessons: 27
Category: Salsa Fusion

Courses

Welcome to this course
Intro - The concept of Salsa - Antipasti
Welcome to this course
Lesson 1 - Basic Step — The Cuban Motion
Lesson 2 - Developing the Cuban On1
Lesson 3 - A Touch of Rumba
Lesson 4 - Timba & Fusion
Lesson 5 -Salsa Casino Partnerwork — Part 1
Lesson 6 -Salsa Casino Partnerwork — Part 2
Lesson 7 -Salsa Casino Partnerwork — Part 3
Welcome to this course
Lesson 1 - Piano & Melody — Timing and Rhythm
Lesson 2 - Conga — Rhythmology
Lesson 3 - Clave & Tumbao
Lesson 4 - Applying Musicality — Part 1
Lesson 5 - Applying Musicality — Part 2
Lesson 6 - Applying Musicality — Part 3
Lesson 7 - On1 to On2 Transition
Welcome to this course
Lesson 1 - The Difference Between Son and Cha Cha Chá
Lesson 2 - Son Foundations
Lesson 3 - Cha Cha Chá Foundations
Lesson 4 - Son – Chá Fusion
Lesson 5 - Dancing with the Clave
Lesson 6 - Final Recap
Welcome to this course
Lesson 1 - Timba Fusion
Lesson 2 - On2 Footwork
Lesson 3 - Crazy Shines
Lesson 4 -Salsa-to-Son Transition
Lesson 5 - Rumba Meets Son
Lesson 6 - Gigi combo
Gigi Bellomo
Gigi Bellomo
Gigi Bellomo, Full Project · Salsa Fusion Specialist

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