Salsa Connection Podcast Series PDF

When we were developing our own salsa teaching techniques and styles, I simply couldn’t keep from imagining all these technical details as relating to larger philosophical and social issues. To me learning salsa partner dancing to the degree that it became dancing, rather than studiously going through one move after another, was an amazing kind of experience. It gives one the smoothness of the flow of moving, the seamless connection by means of a light touch connection with another person, and an experience of transcendence that is at once wholly bodied–an aesthetic of impossibles. The techniques that we were developing also, to me, had much to say about gender roles, social interactions, and the way we physically encounter our environment. The result of my reflections on these issues became a series of podcasts that were originally published to our website.

Vol. 1 Introduction to Salsa Connection Podcast Series Listen
Vol. 2 What Is The Salsa Connection and Why Don’t We Get It? Listen
Vol. 3 Touch and the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 4 Negotiating the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 5 Eye Contact and the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 6 Music and the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 7 Women Get Equal Attention…Finally! Listen
Vol. 8 The Salsa Connection from a Relationship Perspective for Men Listen
Vol. 9 For Women: Relationship Clues in the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 10 Flow and the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 11 Existentialism and the Salsa Connection Listen
Vol. 12 Thumbs Up! Listen