The 12-week course
From your first basic to dancing with anyone — in 12 weeks.
One fundamental and a few figures a week, salsa and bachata in parallel. By the end, you can:
- Dance a full song with someone you’ve just met.
- Hear a song you’ve never heard and know what to do with it.
- Link 30+ moves on the fly — no more frozen routines.
Weeks 1–3 and the whole library are free. No card needed.
How it works
Less memorizing. More dancing.
Find it
Search a full salsa & bachata library and pick a handful worth owning — each one chains into others, so a few moves become combinations you can actually dance.
Make it stick
A short weekly focus and spaced practice, so each move moves out of your head and into muscle memory.
Follow the plan
A clear week-by-week path with your progress saved as you go — so you always know the next thing to work on.
Try it live
Tap any move to see what it leads into. A few connected moves become a repertoire you can actually remember:
The path
Everything you get — the 12-week map
Weeks 1–3 and the whole library are free, forever — a complete first result. The guided course (weeks 4–12) takes you the rest of the way. Pick any week to see the plan.
PHASE 1 — Foundation & Connection (Weeks 1–3)
Goal: a dancer who stays on time, stands tall, connects, and can lead/follow a few moves cleanly. Vocabulary is deliberately small.
Timing & Footwork + Posture
The home base. Nothing fancy — stand tall, transfer your weight, find the beat.
Frame & Lead-Follow Clarity
The physical language. Lead from the body, not the hand.
Comfort + Connection
Your partner feels safe and *seen*. Eye contact, soft hands, leaving space.
PHASE 2 — Vocabulary & the Slot System (Weeks 4–6)
Goal: the library starts chaining. Learners do moves they weren't told to sequence, because the slots match.
Connection deepened (home positions as resets)
Learn the three homes as safe harbours you can always steer back to.
Musicality (intro)
Let the song decide. Salsa breaks vs montuno; bachata Derecho vs Mambo.
Style (intro)
Your spice — but only on top of clean technique. Style in the gaps.
PHASE 3 — Improvisation & the Floor (Weeks 7–9)
Goal: travel, navigate a real floor, and string longer improvised chains.
Comfort (the crowded floor)
Dancing well inside a crowded room — floorcraft and safety. The lead is the radar.
Comfort (advanced — wraps & locks)
Close-position moves that need trust. Easy on the joints; never force.
Musicality (deepened)
Read the whole song shape and choose moves to match.
PHASE 4 — Fluency & Personal Voice (Weeks 10–12)
Style (deepened) + Connection
Your voice, woven into a dance that's still all about your partner.
Comfort (intro to dips)
The first dramatic moves — earned, safe, and welcomed.
All seven, integrated — "the real dance"
No new fundamental — instead, put everything together.
Beyond week 12 — the advanced sketch
Fewer new figures, more mastery. The advanced path is built from combinations, musicality, and refinement rather than a long list of new moves (the library is intentionally deep at intermediate, lean at advanced).
- Salsa advanced:
double-hammerlock,travelling-turns,setenta-complicado,breaking-on-clave, full Rueda calls (dame-dos,adios), long Cuban-Core combinations, the rest of the Cuban-Core engine (candado,balsero,montana,kentucky,ocho,paseala,coca-cola,vuelta-derecha,medio-sombrero,setenta-y-dos,sacala,exhibela,dile-que-si,enchufla-doble), advanced shines (hook-turns,pachanga,swivels,heel-taps,cumbia-step), styling depth (hip-motion,shoulder-shimmies), musicality (double-half-time,pause-suspension). - Bachata advanced: the dips-drops family (
side-dip,drop-dip,candle-sentadilla), sensual depth (body-wave-back-side,body-wave-lead,shadow-side-wave),double-turn,free-spin,cross-arm-turn,travelling-barrel-turn,copa(bachata), dominican-footwork depth (triple-cha-cha-step,double-heel,cande-footwork,free-footwork,mambo-footwork,hesitation-pause),full-basic-madrid,diagonal-box-step.
Advanced fundamentals focus: all seven at refinement level — the question shifts from "can you do it" to "does it look effortless and feel inevitable." Musicality and Style carry the most weight.
Your free daily habit
Got your first moves? Keep them alive.
The free weeks give you a handful of moves. Train is how they stick — a few minutes a day, the coach hands you one move at a time and remembers what to practise next. Free, up to 7 a day.
Go to Train →Your online coach
Keep going — your online coach
The first 3 weeks get you dancing. Your online coach takes you the rest of the way — an adaptive daily loop with no cap, the full guided path, and ever-deeper styling and musicality on every move you own.
- An adaptive daily loop — the coach picks your next move, spots where you’re stuck, and trains toward your goal
- No daily cap — train as much as you like (free is capped at 7 a day)
- The full guided path — weeks 4 through 12, in order
- Go deeper on moves you own — styling, variations and musicality for every figure
- Your progress, saved everywhere you dance
A single private lesson is over the moment it ends. Your online coach turns up every day, remembers exactly where you are, and never runs out of things to teach you.
- Weeks 1–3 are free, so you’ve already tried it before you pay.
- Founding-member price, locked for life — only during early access.
- Your progress saves automatically and follows you everywhere you dance.
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Questions, before you start
I don’t have a partner. Can I still take the course?
Yes — the whole course is built for social dancing, where you change partners all night. You learn to lead or follow each move on its own, with no fixed partner and no choreography to rehearse with someone.
I have no rhythm and two left feet. Is this for me?
Especially for you. We start with one basic step and add a single idea at a time, so you always know exactly what to practice next. Weeks 1–3 are free — try them before you decide anything.
Is the free part really free?
Completely. Weeks 1–3, the entire move library, and your daily Train loop (up to 7 moves a day) are free forever, with no card needed. Your online coach is the paid part — the adaptive loop with no daily cap, weeks 4–12, and deeper styling and musicality on every move.
How is this different from watching YouTube?
YouTube gives you a hundred disconnected routines you forget by next week. Salsista teaches a handful of moves until your body owns them, so wherever a move leaves you, you’ve always got a next one — and it remembers what you’ve learned and what to practice next.
When does the paid course open — am I charged now?
Not yet, and no. Billing isn’t switched on. Right now you’re reserving your spot at the founding-member price, which is locked for life. You won’t be charged anything until the course opens and you choose to join.
Week 1 is free. Start tonight.
One basic step, one idea at a time. By the weekend you’ll have moves you can actually use.
Prefer to browse first? Explore the full library for salsa or bachata, or read the fundamentals.