Couple Dancing

Couple Dancing workshop, led by David Zambrano (with Milan Herich assisting), transforms traditional salsa and hand‑connection dances through contact improvisation ideals. This partner-based class redefines leading and following, dissolves vertical roles, and invites dancers to explore movement at multiple levels—from upright to floor—while maintaining a constant physical and energetic connection. Designed for professionals, amateurs, and non-dancers alike, it honors salsa’s history while offering new, shared leadership dynamics and spatial exploration.

For this two weeks workshop, Zambrano returns to his life experience of salsa dancing. He recalls the beauty in the conversations of hands, the exchanging of rhythmical steps, big band music and the passion for dancing with another person. He takes this history of partner dancing and redefine it as something that could be more appropriate for the modern era, following the influence of contact improvisation, shifting gender roles. Leading and following can be taken by either both and shared. Rolls are not divided over gender or sexual preferences. The verticality and uprightness is broken down, so also dancers can go to different levels and move over the floor with different body parts. But from the experience of the history of couple dancing is kept the structure that at all times there is kept a direct hand-touch, but they can shift according to the need and choices made by the dancers.
This workshop will be assisted by Milan Herich.
The workshops by David Zambrano are aimed at professionals, amateurs of all levels, and also non-dancers.