Classes
Salsa
Salsa is usually a partner dance form that is associated to salsa music now popular worldwide. The word is the same as the Spanish word salsa meaning sauce, or in this case flavor or style. Salsa music has its origins sometime in the 1950s to 1970s, with the truly distinct salsa style coming out of New York in the 1970s. The music fuses a number of Cuban styles, particularly the son, but also draws from a number of other Latin American musical styles using the maracas, conga drums, and guiros.
Salsa has become one of the hottest trends in recent years and Toronto has one of the best Salsa scenes in the world. It is a great way to meet people and have fun. Not to mention that dancing improves posture and grace, and also a fun way to keep in shape.
We offer different levels of salsa classes depending on your experience. Please consult our instructors regarding which level would be most appropriate for you. We host socials and outings on a regular basis so you will get to practice and show off what you learn!
Click here to check out Tania teaching on Rogers TV and WowTV!
Salsa KIDS (5-12 yrs old)
Music and Dance are important activities to the growth of a child, to develop their self-esteem and to foster their creative expression. Dance should be considered an essential component in your kid's education, the same as math, history and science. Dance allows children to think, feel, express themselves and communicate through body movement, which is a natural way of expression for children.
Oscar Naranjo is the leading dance instructor in Toronto who trains kids dancing salsa at performance and competitive level for 9 years. His kids have extensive competition and performance experience with numerous awards and media exposure.
Tania Wong is the director of Enamorarse Dance. She has trained kids from 2.5 yrs old to teens since 1995, teaching everything from ballet, jazz, creative dance to academic subjects. She has also trained adults in student performance groups, performing at various salsa and charity occasions.
Because of our passion working with kids, Tania Wong and Oscar Naranjo are joining forces this summer to bring to you Oscar's Salsa kids program at Enamorarse Dance. Bring your kids/nieces/god-children, and etc (5 - 12 yrs old) to learn the posture, build the foundation, and to discover all the beauties of music and dance!
Best of all, the classes could be "free"! Please refer to Government of Canada's Children Fitness Tax Credit: http://www.cra-arc.gc.ca/fitness/
Bollyfit
BollyFit is a bollywood dance based workout designed to get your heart rate up and going! BollyFit is highly effective as it uses your own muscle mass along with body toning movements to ensure that you are working up a sweat and shedding those calories!
BollyFit has created 3 special programs to fit the needs of every individual! BollyFit Cardio, BollyFit Rhythm and BollyTots!
BollyFit is made for all ages, anyone of any age group is welcome to attend! Bollyfit is about embracing love for music and dance while staying fit and having fun!
It is not about co-ordination and being the best dancer its about feeling the energy and moving to your own ability !
Strip to Fit
Strip to Fit is the hottest new trend to keep fit, popularized by Carmen Electra's Aerobic Striptease DVDs and Sheila Kelley's S Factor classes. Danced to R&B and Hip Hop, Strip aerobics class offers a great workout and a safe arena to move your body and laugh with your girl friends. In addition, the class boosts self confidence as girls recognize that they are beautiful at whatever shape or size!
Students have loved the class since the introduction of the class in June. You will love the classes with our hot instructor.
Bring your girl friends and make it a sex-and-the-city event!
Here's an example of a more advanced class:
Click here to check out Laura teaching on WowTV!
Latin Dance Cardio
Join the high energy class that has everyone talking about: DANCING yourself FIT! This class is for all levels. Even if you've never danced before or have 2 left feet, men or women, in 8 weeks we will get you dancing yourself FIT to Salsa, Bachata, Meringue, Cha Cha Reggaeton and Afrocuban dances!
Latin cardio creates a good sensation and leaves you wanting more. Easy to follow dance steps coupled with both Latin and modern music to create a fun atmosphere. Cardio Latin Dance allows you to break out of your rut and find some new and improved cardio that will also build your muscle strength, helps boost your immune system, your mood and improve your sense of well being (not to mention stamina, coordination, balance, and reduce cholesterol.
The dance has a lot of focus on core, abs, hips, hamstrings, quad, and gluts and arms. It creates a great sweat workout you realizing you’re exercising without. Coupled with a sensible well nutritional diet and exercise people have reported losing weight by doing cardio Latin dance.
Zumba
Zumba® is a dynamic dance fitness programme that fuses hypnotic latin rhythms and easy to follow moves that will get you moving, sweating and getting an amazing work out! The goal of Zumba is simple: We want you to want to work out, to love working out, and to get hooked. Zumba® Fanatics achieve long term benefits while experiencing an absolute blast in one exhilarating hour of caloric-burning, body-energizing, awe-inspiring movements meant to engage and captivate for life!
The routines feature interval training sessions where fast and slow rhythms and resistance training are combined to tone and sculpt your body while burning fat. Add some Latin flavor and international zest into the mix and you've got Zumba®!
In the past years Zumba® has become nothing short of a revolution. Coining the concept of fitness-party™ and making fitness fun, Zumba® has spread like wild-fire, and has positioned itself as the single most influential movement in the industry of fitness.
What are you waiting for? Join the Zumba party! Level 1 will have you moving and grooving to salsa, cumbia, merengue, reggaeton, cha cha cha and bachata. Level 2 will ramp it up with more of your favourite latin dances and spice things up with samba, afro-brazilian, afro-cuban and bellydance. Get fit, have fun…and DANCE!!!!!
Find out what Zumba is all about, meet the founder of Zumba, 60 pounds weight loss story, and more!
Ballet Workout
Peter Martins, the Ballet Master in Chief of New York City Ballet said,"You want to be a sculptor of your muscles in order to achieve maximum muscle tone. You want to relieve the body of its excesses in order to bring out what's best in yourself. Ballet does not bulk up the body, but rather refines it."
It is so true that ballet is the foundation of many dances, and it develops not only poise and toned muscles, but also creating body awareness and confidence. Designed for dancers of all ages and dance experience, the ballet workout classes will help you tone muscles that you rarely use while having fun learning this beautiful art form!
If you are thinking of muscles toning, core strengthening, lengthing your body and building beautiful posture, ballet is the way to go! Drop in for our fun ballet workout class that takes traditional ballet techniques to a fun contemporary levels. No experience necessary!
Check out the video below on one of the pieces we learnt in the course!
Argentine Tango
Argentine Tango is a social dance and a musical genre that originated in Argentina and Uruguay. It is commonly confused with Ballroom Tango, which is a later derivation. Argentine tango is a uniquely sweet, romantic, intensely dramatic, exciting, sexy, intimate, mesmerizing dance that is highly improvised. Ballroom tango, on the other hand, tends to be memorized and very staccato and detached. Argentine tango can be either sweet, gentle, soft and flowing, while at other times fast and exciting. The facisnation people have with Argentine tango is the connection that can develop between partners. It is almost as if two become one. In Argentine tango style, dancers are free to frequently pause and enjoy the moment and the music without the need to constantly move rhythmically to the beat. That's what makes Argentine tango so appropriate for a dance of love at wedding receptions and other parties.
Want to see for yourself what Argentine Tango looks like? Check out clips from So You Think You can Dance.
Ballroom DanceBallroom dance, refers collectively to a set of partner dances, which originated in the Western world and are now enjoyed both socially and competitively around the globe. Its performance and entertainment aspects are also widely enjoyed on stage, in film, and on television. Dances most commonly classified under Ballroom dance are as follows:
International Standard
Slow Waltz - Tango - Viennese Waltz - Slow Foxtrot - Quickstep
International Latin
Cha Cha - Samba - Rumba - Paso Doble - Jive
Fall in love with ballroom dancing with our passionate, experienced and award-winning instructors who would show you the beauty of the dance in the most easy to learn way.
Be it "two-left foot" or not, everyone is welcomed! No partner is required.
Belly Dancing
Belly Dance is the Western name for a dance form from Middle East, known in Arabic as raqs sharqi, wich means Eastern Dance. It is sometimes called oriental dance in Europe, oryantal dansi ("Dance of the East") in Turkey, and "Middle Eastern Dance" in America. This dance really doesn't have anything to do with belly, although it's very much used in the dance.
R&B singer Aaliyah used the belly dance as her signature move, which she called the belly roll.Belly dancing has recently been made widely popular by Shakira, whose dancing combines belly dance, Latino and modern dance styles. Other singers who have performed belly dance in their music videos include Beyoncé, Rihanna, Nelly Furtado, Christina Aguilera, and Jessica Simpson.
The benefits of belly dance are both mental and physical. Dancing provides a good cardio-vascular workout and helps increase both flexibility and strength, focusing on the torso or "core muscles", although it also builds leg strength. Many belly dance styles emphasize muscular "isolations", teaching the ability to move various muscles or muscle groups independently. Veil work can also build arm, shoulder, and general upper-body strength, and playing the zils can build strength and independence of the fingers. This is for everyone of all ages, shapes and sizes!
Yoga
Hatha Yoga is a spritual practice. Traditional Hatha includes moral disciplines, physical postures, poses, yogic breathing, and meditation. Hatha yoga will work on the endurance of the body, the resistance, and the cardiovascular. Hatha Yoga concentrates on a series of postures that energize the body physically, mentally and spiritually. The postures are hold to let the body stretch and relax in combination of series of flow poses that demands physical fit. The concentration and breathing are guided throughout the classes, bringing students to a meditative state and self introspection. It detoxifies the vital organs, and takes you to a deep relaxation state.