We’re excited to announce that our new Salsa Musicality Mastery course will be launching soon inside the Social Dance Mastery Premium Community. This course is designed to help dancers go beyond memorized patterns and develop: 🥁 deeper rhythm awareness 🎶 true musicality 🕺 stronger partner connection 👂 timing & clave understanding 🌍 cultural foundation & historical context As part of that journey, I just released a new long-form training covering some of the HISTORY and foundational concepts we explore inside the course. In this video we dive into: 🔥 African rhythmic roots 🔥 Colonial Cuba & cultural fusion 🔥 Contradanza & Danzon 🔥 The rise of Son Cubano 🔥 The Son Boom of the 1920s–30s And this is only PART 1 👀 Next we’ll get into: ⚡ Afro-Cuban Jazz ⚡ The Mambo Era in New York ⚡ The Palladium Ballroom ⚡ Puerto Rican influence on salsa ⚡ Fania Records & Salsa Dura Inside the Premium Community you’ll also have access to: ✅ Heritage Playlist Collection ✅ On2 Timing Accelerator ✅ Live Musicality Trainings ✅ Partner Connection Concepts ✅ Cultural Education ✅ Roots of Salsa Cuban Dance Retreat Experiences Because when you understand the ROOTS of salsa… you stop just counting music…and start actually understanding it. Go check out the new video in the classroom 🎥