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Corporate Classes & Services

No matter the size of your team, we are here to offer entertainment for them. Our clients hire us to teach dance classes, perform at their events, do team building workshops and more. We can deliver our services in person as well as virtually. Hire us and reward your hard working team with something they will enjoy and remember.

Corporate salsa and bachata dance lessons, corporate team building dance workshops at Salsa With Silvia

In Person Team Building Through Dance

GOALS OF THE WORKSHOP:

  • Understanding the foundation and importance of connection
  • Learning the basics of musicality and rhythm
  • Learning simple movements for leads and followers
  • Learning how to implement connection during leading and following
Team building corporate dance workshops at the Salsa With Silvia Dance studios in DC and Bethesda or on location

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OVERALL STRUCTURE

Length can be customized. A typical program is 60 to 90 minutes long.

INTRO TO MUSICALITY: Participants are introduced to the instructors, who explain the flow and goals of the upcoming activities. During the introduction, the instructors will explain basic rules on learning how to hear the rhythm in the music. Participants will be asked to use techniques such as clapping on different counts while listening to a song.

WARM UP – Participants will follow the lead of an experienced instructor who will engage the group into a sequence of easy moves that will wake up the body and mind, thus getting everyone ready for the activities ahead. The goal of this warm up to begin understanding and implementing the very basics of rhythm, musicality and movement.

LEARNING THE BASIC MOVES – Participants are split in two groups: leaders and followers. The instructors walk the participants through 3 very basic moves that the participates learn how to execute individually. One instructor shows the moves to the leaders and the other to the followers.

MASTERING THE ART OF ENGAGING THROUGH CONNECTION, LEAD & FOLLOW – Leads & followers are asked to pair up and establish who is the lead and who is the follower. Partners work on a basic open connection. The instructors explain the role of the leader and the role of the follower. During this activity, participants learn and practice important rules of leading and following. Participants first practice without the steps and then with the steps. During this activity, the instructors will ask either the leads or the followers to rotate so they can practice connection, lead and follow with a different partner. The goal of this activity is to make sure that the connection is executed properly so that when the leaders are initiating a move, the followers are responding without anticipating.

PRACTICE and WRAP UP – Participants be asked practice finding the right beat on their own and initiating the lead on their own to an entire song. In the end participants will have a couple of minutes to share their experience working on the different activities.

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HOW DOES IT WORK?

We have two types of workshops depending mainly on the size of the class, the dynamics of the company and the goals you want to achieve.

While the introduction is the same for both workshops, each workshop type has their own exercises.

INTRODUCTION

(Optional) One by one, everyone will tell the group their name, their role in the company, and one funny situation that they’ve experienced working there (without giving the names of the people involved), or one of their hobbies.  This helps knowing each other a little better and finding common ground on, which to strengthen future interpersonal relationships. If the group is too big (More than 24 people) we can simply give them their Name Tags.

Corporate salsa and bachata dance lessons, corporate team building dance workshops at Salsa With Silvia
Corporate salsa and bachata dance lessons, corporate team building dance workshops at Salsa With Silvia

Option 1: Team Building workshop focused on small task groups

The goal of this workshop is promoting communication and problem solving within small work groups (each group will have between 6 and 8 people ) competing with other groups. At the beginning, the class is divided into small groups according to the company’s task groups, for example, sales group, administrative group, technical group, etc. Some of the task groups might have more than one group in the class if there were much more administrative staff than technical staff, to give an example.

ACTIVITIES:

HUMAN KNOT

Players will stand in a circle facing inwards. Each player must reach his right and left hand with two different people at  the opposite site of the circle. The final goal is to unravel the knot without releasing each other’s hands. This game helps with problem solving and communication making them work as a group. The group that unties the knot faster, wins!

This activity is a fun reminder that team success depends on the ideas and contributions of all team members.

DANCE CLASS
For the dance class all the teams will be together. Then, the teacher starts with a short warm up for the class. After that they break down some easy and super fun steps. The class will be  focused on couples’ dance. At the end the teacher puts together all of these steps making a super fun & easy to lead/follow dance.
 
TRUST BLINDFOLD DANCE

After the dance class each team will form 3 or 4 couples, on each couple the  follower will be blindfolded, and must trust that the leader will guide the follow in the dance together with the other two couples within a small delimited area, circulating through the area without leaving it or crossing his path with another of the couples.The team that makes less mistakes will win the point! This activity is designed  to develop trust in our co-worker.

Option 2: Team Building Workshop focused coordination between different areas

The goal of this workshop is promoting communication and problem solving within small work groups
(each group will have between 6 and 8 people ) competing with other groups. At the beginning, the class is divided into small groups according to the company’s task groups, for example, sales group, administrative group, technical group, etc. Some of the task groups might have more than one group in the class if there were much more administrative staff than technical staff, to give an example.

ACTIVITIES:

GET IN SHAPE

The instructor will ask the two groups to form different forms, like circle, square, triangle, while they hold their hands. They won’t be allowed to release their partner´s hand and they cannot speak with each other. The only way  that they can communicate is with head gestures.The team that forms each shape faster wins!  This activity encourages everyone in the group to work together and help each other to achieve the common objective.

DANCE CLASS

For  this dance class both teams will be together. Then, the teacher starts with a short warm up for the class. After that they break down some easy and super fun steps. This class will be more focused on footwork.Then at the end, the teacher puts together all of these steps making a super fun & easy to follow routine.

DANCE AS I SAY, WHILE YOU CAN’T SEE!

Once they take the dance class each team will name their team director. Everyone at the team will be blindfolded and the team director will call for the steps.When both teams have done this blindfold dance, we will play the video of both dances at the studio´s projector so everyone who participates in the workshop can see how they´ve danced. The team that makes the most fun choreography and coordinates better, wins the activity! The goal of this game is to do what the leader says at all times, and to trust in your partners. The most successful team will be the most coordinated. Doing this workshop takes approximately between an hour and a half to two hours, depending on the number of participants.

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Meet The Owner

Find our how owner Silvia Alexiev started from the basement of her house and now has the largest Latin Dance Studio in the DMV.

Meet The Instructors

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