2025 SALSA / BACHATA
PERFORMANCE TEAM
Performance Team
Expert skills NOT needed
All with dance experience eligible to audition
No partner needed
No performance experience needed
Take your dancing to the next level with the MUSIC BODY AND SOUL performance team!
Starting April 2025, you will learn choreography over 5 months and perform at nightclubs and festivals (“Congresses”) in Honolulu and more!
The performance team will also make you a better social dancer!
WHAT YOU WILL LEARN
Choreographed routine including salsa and bachata
Sharper, cleaner, better, faster dance movement
Musicality
Styling
Spinning technique
Stretching for dancers
Dancing technique both for stage and social dancing
Charisma for both on and off the stage
Courage!
Tricks occasionally (optional - not all team members will do tricks)
How to enjoy yourself on stage!
WHAT YOU WILL EXPERIENCE
FUN
Friendships
Camaraderie
Community
Adventure
Expanded comfort zone
Improved fitness
Increased flexibility
General feelings of happiness
MUSIC BODY AND SOUL performance team members build a strong bond and become the “elite” core of the academy. They have a strong sense of belonging and are often proud ambassadors.
You will be welcomed into a vibrant, enthusiastic, positive group.
We also work hard, sweat, and focus during rehearsals. Your dancing skills will improve dramatically and you'll get a great workout.
The director and coaches also ensure that every team member is always challenged to become a better dancer. When you're ready for more, he ensures you get it.
Through the physical challenge, fun, shared purpose, and events and shows together, you'll form a special bond with your teammates and will likely make friendships that last a life time.
We also have a strict "no drama" and "total support" policy. This keeps us focused on positive reinforcement and encouragement.
The MBS performance team is a special experience like no other.
Congress
Salsa / Bachata festivals, also known as "congresses," are big weekend dance events at hotels that often attract thousands of dancers from all over the world.
Festivals host pool parties, performances, hours upon hours of dance workshops, and social dancing all night until the sun comes up.
Going solo, it's easy to feel lost at these congresses. As a MBS performer though, you will feel right at home having your entire MBS family with you. You'll have teammates to go to meals with, attend workshops with, and have fun with!
Schedule 2025
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Salsa & Bachata Co-ed
Thursdays 6-7:30pm Starting on April 3rd
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Salsa Ladies Styling
Saturdays 1-2:30pm Starting on April 5th
DURATION
6 months. April through August.
MISSED REHEARSALS
Life happens. We understand.
Most team members will have to miss some rehearsals. Just prioritize rehearsal and always be there when possible.
Missed rehearsals are not pro-rated.
If you'd like to join and must miss a large block of time, contact us to explore what's possible.
PRACTICE WITH TEAMMATES
Mandatory: minimum 1 hours per week with at least 1 teammate outside of regular team rehearsal.
You may arrange your own schedules.
These practices help ensure the team makes steady progress. They are also fun and great for team bonding.
Also, we have Open Practice Time on the second and fourth Fridays
PRACTICE SOLO
10 minutes per day (just 5 days per week). Exercises will be given for spinning, stretching etc.
PERFORMANCES
Local shows will be scheduled at social dance nights in Honolulu.
"Main" shows will be scheduled at salsa/bachata festivals, including:
Alohana Salsa Bachata Festival in August
Bachata Festival in July
You may perform when you are ready. Not every dancer needs to perform in every show.
If you must miss some shows, including "main" shows, that's fine. This is one reason we have many show opportunities throughout the year.
PRICE
The Performance Team is about the length and price of two Progressive Courses.
The team is the lowest price per hour of any of our programs when instructor time is included for studio rehearsals, local shows, festival shows, rehearsals at festivals, etc.
PAYMENT OPTIONS
Option 1: Monthly Payment
Regular: $125 a month ($13.8 /hr)
Option 2: Single Payment
Regular: $750 x1. Discount: $650 x 1 (~$12 /hr)
Meet the Team
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Director: Cherry Saimon
Owner of MUSIC BODY AND SOUL. Cherry is a professional dancer who trained in LA for over 13 years. She has taught salsa, bachata, flexibility, movement and floor work, and competed and performed on stage throughout LA and Orange County. She is also a coach helping women build unshakable confidence and be empowered to move in a space free of any fears of judgement from others.
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Choreographer: Danny Kalman
Danny Kalman has been an instructor for celebrities such as Jennifer Grey ("Baby" from the legendary film "Dirty Dancing" and 2010 Dancing with the Stars champion), Clark Gregg (star of "Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D"), Ajay Rochester, Susannah Grant, Joe Lewis, and Yara Martinez. Based in Los Angeles, California he directs Movers & Shakers Dance Company, where he has taught over 2,000 students.
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Choreographer: Aileen Rose
Aileen is the founder of Eros dance company. She has trained under numerous master dance instructors and companies including Los Anormales Dance Company led by Rodrigo Cortazar and Selene Tovar, Salsa Intocable led by Laura Lu, and has been choreographing for numerous groups such as CSULA salsa team . She has been invited to teach in many events and festivals including the the salsa Festival in Finland, locally at events as well as World Salsa Festival, and more.
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Coach: Inna Gunko