Welcome to SalsaVirtual Hola salseros! Welcome to our first blog post! While we work hard on making magic to improve your salsa with virtual reality (we can enhance it… we have the technology), I wanted to use this blog space to start lighthearted conversations about a variety of salsa topics. In this post: Rejection! (Hey, …
She said ‘no’? — It’s not personal. Rejection and dance Read More »
Salsa-Virtual is featured in the new documentary “Fear of Dancing”, available this September.
One of my friends is a modern progressive follower with old-school romantic preferences: leads to be taller, dark and handsome. Now, for leads, if you are indeed taller, dark and handsome, you’ll likely have success both in romance and on the dance floor. As for me, I have two out of three! We can’t control …
First of all, yes, virtual reality dancing is a thing! In fact, Salsa-Virtual is a step-by-step guide in Virtual Reality (VR) that teaches you how to salsa partner dance and increase your real-life social activities in a safe, yet fun-filled way. You learn at your own pace with virtual teachers. We made it for everybody to …
Can virtual reality dancing change your real life? Read More »
Things are happening! We’re excited and anxious at the same time, because it’s becoming real. Which is an odd thing to say about a Virtual Reality app. But it is now listed on Steam, so you can wishlist, follow or tell your friends about it! Click here to add Salsa-Virtual and make magic happen! On …
5 Common Mistakes Serious Dancers Make Mistakes are an important part of the learning process. How quickly you recover from mistakes is a great gauge of what level dancer you are. Do you stop completely and start all over when you make a mistake? Can you go with the flow and see the beauty in …
Recently someone on /r/Dance asked a simple but powerful question about how to chose a dance teacher. Do have any tips about what to look for in a good dance teacher and what to avoid in a bad teacher? That’s a question that I often ask myself, and also actively research with veteran and newly …
8 ways to recognize a great dance teacher (and 5 ways to identify bad ones) Read More »
Dancing is about balance, especially on the social dance floor When you first start to draw, you start with basic shapes and work up to complex lines and shapes. Start with 1-dimentional figures, then 2-D, and 3-D. Same goes for dancing. The most basic and important balance line is the vertical one from your head …
5 Reasons to be Addicted to Good Posture (on the social dance floor) Read More »
When we first started Dance-Virtual, we wanted to know what types of dance were most popular, and especially what dance styles people had difficulty learning. With this data we would tailor our Virtual Reality dance lesson app to help the most people get to the dance floor! Unfortunately we found very few statistics about styles of dance. So we …
What are the most popular types of dance? And who are the dancers? Read More »
My husband and I love to dance and general don’t have to think about dance etiquette. We go to a ‘hole-in-wall’ salsa joint almost every week. If we weren’t there enjoying affordable fish bowl-sized margaritas and inclusive atmosphere, we would be dancing at our favorite honky-tonk in town, gettin’ down to Boot Scootin’ Boogie, and all the …
Dance Etiquette: The How to Ask Someone to Dance Read More »
