Chelsea Rose

Chelsea Rose is from California and began studying Salsa dance at California Polytechnic University where she attended college. She became an active member of the Cal Poly Salsa Club in 2004 (cpsalsa.com). She served as Performance Coordinator for the club from 2005-2006, choreographing routines, training dancers in footwork, styling and performance presentation, and coordinating venues for performances and demonstrations. She taught weekly classes for the club for 3 years, teaching beginning to advanced Salsa steps and styling, and basic steps of Cha Cha, Merengue, and Bachata. In 2006, she studied under the tutelage of world class Salsa instructors John Navarez and Liz Rojas of SalsaMania Dance Company in San Francisco. Later in 2006 she traveled to Mexico and performed at the 2006 International Salsa Congress in D.F. (Mexico City) with partner Roderid Reyes. Since then she has dedicated her time to teaching, performing, and giving Latin dance demonstrations in California and New York. She offers many levels of dance training including Salsa partner work, ladies styling, spinning technique, footwork and shines, lead and follow technique, and performance presentation. She loves teaching, loves the music, and most of all loves dancing ~ translating Latin rhythms into movement of body and soul.