"On The Floor" Salsa - Funky Bollywood September 2010.

SalsaTO Meets Bollywood - Jai Ho! Video - November 2010.

SalsaTO - 1 Nov. Walk In The Park - Video.

SalsaTO Show Dips & Tricks- Short Video.

Shiamak Davar Bollywood Flashmob CNE 2011!

10 June Bloor & Yonge Bollywood Flash Mob Celebrating IIFA 2011.

29 April 2011 NBS International Dance Day Flash Mob.

SalsaTO Meets Bollywood - Jai-Ho! Stills.

2010 - SalsaTO Meets Bollywood Still Pics.

SalsaTO Show Dips & Tricks & Fun Still Pics.

SalsaTO.ca's Video Grab Images.

Private lessons, demos, shows, club classes? We're available!

Have a group and want to learn together? We're available!

Will perform at your function or event & your guests will enjoy our quick and easy Learn-to-Salsa fun class! No charge shows for charities.

SalsaTO.ca's Dance - Fitness Background

SalsaTO.ca's Mike has been involved in dance and stage since the 70s - on stage and behind stage.

SalsaTO.ca's Mike & Sharon bring infectious energy, audience connection and playful choreography to the stage and the dance studio.

Choreographing, competing and performing Salsa since 2002, SalsaTO.ca's Sharon and Mike entertain using salsa, while most troupes use salsa to entertain. 2009's Walk In The Park had them asking,

"When are you performing again?"

2010's SalsaTO Meets Bollywood - Jai-Ho! Dance Fusion blends classic Indian dance with Bollywood movement and styling and salsa turn patterns and show aerials, tricks and lifts. Audiences say, "Fresh! Entertaining! Different! Awesome!" "Amazing!" SYTYCD-Canada Judge Jean-Marc Genereaux.
"So You're the Salsa Bollywood People, Good Job!" SYTYCD-Canada Judge Tres Armstrong
And Salsa-Latin choreographer Gustavo Vargas said Mike & Sharon's Jai Ho fusion was giving him ideas.

2011's "On The Floor!" a brand new Salsa - Bollywood fusion using Pitbull & Jennifer Lopez's "On The Floor" had them 'Kicking it up; Raising the Roof and Breaking the Dance floor' and hollering for more!

2011's Sex In The City Meets The daWg! salsa hip-hop fusion has the dainty Sharon fending off the daWg throughout the entire show. "Creative!" is what the audience said!

SalsaTO's Mike & Sharon performed in the 2010 Canada Salsa Congress, 2010 Niagara Falls' Chim Pum Callao Congress; Guelph's 2010 Northern Salsa Experience; 2008 and 2009 Winter Salsa Carnival; the Festival of Dance 2003, 2004 & various venues and charity events in Toronto.

Competed in the last of the fabled Berlin Toronto Dance (Salsa) Competitions, placing third in the amateur class.

Teaching salsa for absolute beginners and specialty Dip & Tricks Workshops for eight years.

Has appeared in several feature movies including How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.

Has performed, danced and sang in Gilbert & Sullivan operettas on stage as second tenor through two decades and worked backstage, as a choreographer, set builder.

Holds a degree in Education with an undergraduate honours history degree, qualifications in Adult Education.

SalsaTO.ca's Mike & Sharon continually learn new dance and stage techniques from recognized industry and world class experts.

Mike has training in Ballet, Jazz, Bollywood. Sharon has ballet training, including pointe.

Has trained under Dave Paris, Billy Fajardo & Katie Marlow - meticulous and the safest aerial, lift and drop specialists, world class judges and stage choreographers currently active in the North American and global salsa, ballroom and hustle scene.

Has trained under recognized Toronto specialists Angus Dirnbeck, Jennifer Aucoin, Vanesa Stay, Oscar Naranjo, Giovanni Torres, Elizabeth Sadowska.

Trained under North American and global entertainers, choreographers, performers and teachers Al Espinoza & Karla, Edie "The Salsa Freak," World Champions Oliver & Luda; UK based "Super Mario," a partner work specialist.

2010-2011 - Trains & performs with Mumbai based Shiamak Davar International Canada Ltd's Bollywood Funk batches and shows.

2011 April 29 - Dancing in the NBS International Dance Day Flash Mob - Choreographer Matjash 'Matt' Mrozewski - after three months of training.

Been teaching aerobic dance and fitness and personal training for 20 years, teaches "Zumba without the Z," before it was trademarked and hit the mainstream, with elements of the West Indies, Cha Cha, and Brazil's Lambada.

Earned FOLP certification in movement, exercise design and musicality and have CanFit Pro training in exercise design and movement and choreography.

• Salsa with SalsaTO
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• Learn To Salsa -- Salsa I
  
  No experience required. Six weeks of fun while learning how to dance Salsa, a very sexy dance. Bring a Friend!
  
  Learn basic footwork; how to turn; how to work as a pair - leader and follower; basic combinations including cross body leads, breaks. Get a taste of Cuban, LA and New York style salsa elements.
  
  Learn basic musicality, where to start in the music.
  
  Time permitting - exposure to nightclub Cha Cha and Merengue, two very popular dances in nightclubs and at street festivals.
  
  The W5
  
  Coming soon!
  When: Noon / 12:00pm.
  
  Where: Cafe Lula - 1585 Dundas West
  2 blocks west of Dufferin. 416-588-0307.
  How Much: $100 each or $85 each per couple.
  Questions, RSVP; SalsaTO@gmail.com.
  Stay For The Fun!
  
  
• Learn To Salsa -- Salsa II
  
  *** Next Class Starts - Soon
  Six weeks of fun while learning more Salsa. Bring a Friend!
  
  Follow-on of Salsa I, more complex turn patterns. Basic "shines" footwork. More Cuban, LA and New York style turn patterns built from basic moves. Nightclub Safe Dip.
  
  Learn how to work pauses and stops in the music, elegant endings to a song.
  
  Recommended - Salsa I or three to six months of salsa, ability to lead & follow and keep time.
  
  The W5
  
  When: 11:00am.
  Saturday - soon.
  Where: Cafe Lula - 1585 Dundas West
  2 blocks west of Dufferin. 416-588-0307.
  How Much: $100 each or $85 per couple.
  Questions, RSVP; SalsaTO@gmail.com.
  Stay For The Fun!
  
  
• Nightclub Safe Tricks & Dips
  Next Workshop - Coming soon!
  
  Put spice back into your salsa with SalsaTO.ca Mike & Sharon's "Nightclub Safe Tricks & Dips Workshop!"
  
  Learn to execute leadable and Nightclub Safe tricks & dips for the dance floor or the stage.
  
  Leaders and followers, learn how to communicate and work together as partners to execute safe and fun tricks and dips.
  
  Dips I Solid Beginner or Intermediate level recommended. Partners recommended, but not absolutely necessary.
  
  Dips II Intermediate+ level recommended & ability to execute and lead travelling left turns. Partners strongly recommended.
  
  Bring your friends!
  
  The W5 Next Workshop - Coming soon *or* Call Us
  
  
• Salsa Tune Up
  
  Been dancing salsa for about six months
  - or even a year or more - and have questions or are stuck on a few things? Want to improve your lead and follow? Having trouble with the really fast music you hear at the socials or the clubs? Maybe want to add something new to your salsa?
  
  Or just have the blahs and want to rev up your dancing?
  
  Then let SalsaTO.ca's Mike and his Mechanic Sharon tune it up!
  
  Emphasis is on technique, not styling. Hear and work with different styles of salsa music; tidy up and improve lead & follow; work the breaks instead of chugging through them; learn how to work very fast music and feel on top of the music, not catching up; blast through any roadblocks to moving to that next level.
  
  The W5 -- Coming soon.
  
  
• SalsaTO.ca's Resources
  
  Preparing for A Salsa Competition
  
  Competition Judges - Jennifer Aucoin's Insider View
  
  So Loud It Hurts - Noise in Clubs and Concerts
  
  Core Strength for Dancers.
  
  Dips - Note Bene Cavaets.