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Thursday nights at the glass house in
downtown Lynchburg is a place to be if
you want to learn how to salsa dance
that's right it all happens at Lynchburg
salsa and joining us to talk about how
they got started and how you can get
involved we have Jeannette Dolby the
owner and instructor thanks so much for
coming on thanks so much for having me
so tell us a little bit about Lynchburg
salsa started in 2009 yeah so started to
go sign from my friend Elizabeth she was
involved in some salsa dancing
originally and wanted to do something
more concrete in the community I started
dancing in 2010 where I became a dancer
and then later on an instructor and now
my husband I owned the company so you
just started to salsa dance just
recently within the last year yeah yeah
I've only been doing it for about eight
years now but I've been dancing my
entire life so it kind of came a little
easy to me is that how you and your
husband met it is actually yeah my
husband showed up and he came to learn
how to dance and I was teaching that
night and we started dating recently and
got married two and half years ago you
guys there's an about salsa dancing that
you like so much I actually really enjoy
the connection that I get to make with
my husband on the dance floor first of
all but I also really enjoy the teaching
aspect of it people get to come and
learn something completely new and
different and just experience a whole
new thing about it so I just really
enjoyed that aspect of it yeah that's so
cool so what happens on Thursday nights
so on Thursday nights we start at 8
o'clock you come in you get a lesson for
an hour we teach you how to do the
basics and salsa dancing with a right
hand turn in a Bock and a crossbody lead
and then we also introduce you to
merengue and bachata we're to two other
styles of dance and then I have two
hours of social dancing where you can
practice your moves that you've learned
it's like a party exactly okay so you're
gonna teach us a couple absolutely yeah
why not okay yeah okay all right what do
we need to know okay so as a female
you're called a follow and so you start
with your right foot going back on one
and on two you bring all of your body
weight back up to your left two and on
three you're gonna bring your feet
together on four we pause but we never
count fours or eights and salsa so I
know how to count we just don't count
those and salsa all right okay go then
what you do on five is your left foot
comes forward on five back on six
together on seven so you can go back on
your
and so that's the main step for a follow
so then as a lead he would opposite you
so if I were to dance with you
definitely here we go one two three five
six seven
okay three and then if you wanted to
kinda do something fun you can throw in
a turn oh my gosh there we go yeah but
you guys don't stop I know right no no
your ongoing a new solo you can do it
solo there are some teams who will do
more like shines with a lot of females
will do call it were called shines and
make it fun and entertaining but
typically it's a partner dance okay so
when you're doing your turns when you
come back to the front
the females first step of back on your
right foot yeah you have back on your
right on Natalie nailed it yeah you did
pretty well you did pretty well you
totally like bowling you know it looks
great and that was exactly what you're
supposed to do is I follow this to
release and just follow along and just
let the other person like yeah so is
that how it works like when you and your
husband are out there he just leads you
through absolutely he does I've didn't
see the back lead once in a while so I
figure but I try to make sure that I'm
following everything that he leads me
into are their age restriction
absolutely not we all ages so we have
anywhere from we've had kids show up
high school students all the way up to
people who are in their 50s and 60s and
even higher than that so we want people
to come who want to experience something
new and different
yeah now do you do private lessons if I
can't make it out on Thursday absolutely
we do private lessons for individuals
couples and we also do group lessons as
well we've been to a couple of weddings
where we've gotten to teach salsa
dancing to an entire guest at a
reception so okay well we have yeah we
perform for us yeah yes I can see like
Jimmy King yeah Tbk go ahead
do that you step to the side okay there
we go there we go
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