After all these articles, if you are living in Luxembourg (or commuting to dance salsa), you might wonder: And what the heck do we learn at your salsa courses?

Well, we could sell you the label "Spanish style" or "UK style" or, why not "Luxembourgish style". We don't follow 100% any of the "standard" styles. In fact only a few gurus do. All others, earthlings like us, are getting influences from here and there and enriching our own style with different sources.

Most of the patterns we teach are common to the mainstream CBL salsa styles. That's why we advertise our courses as "CBL style". When I came to Luxembourg I teached pure Cuban style. These are my salsa roots and I will never deny them. My first contact with Puerto Rican style was in 1997, thanks to Pedro Gómez and then one year after with Stacy López, another great Puerto Rican dancer. Both had a big influence in my dance style at that time. We can spot 1998 as the year of my slow and steady transition from Cuban to the CBL style. In 2000 I made my first choreography with Louise. Given her innate elengancy she was the definitive push to switch to pure CBL style.

Concerning our salsa lessons in Luxembourg: During the beginners courses we are not so picky about the linear travelling. We let you focus on rythm and "lead&follow" techniques. This will let you make a smooth transition to either pure Cuban or CBL style. From intermediate level onwards we teach you only CBL patterns. Then we stress not only to improve your sense of rythm and lead&follow capabilities but to dance in a clear distinctive CBL style. Take the most elegant stuff you learn in our lessons (Louise armwork, if you are a lady), put it "on 2" and you can claim you dance Puerto Rican (In fact we have been several times advertised in our international workshops as "Puerto Rican style"). Put it "on 6" and then claim that you dance NY style. Take our most pushy, powerful movements, spin your partner till she faints and don't stop making your most complicated patterns and you can proudly say you dance "LA style".

Probably my style is closer to LA than to the others (Certainly it is while performing), although I perceive a notable evolution to PR style in my way of dancing. I fear age (let's call it "experience") has something to do with it. Remember that Johnny Vazques, paradigm of the L.A. style is presently (2006) at his mid twenties. Louise's style is certainly much closer to Puerto Rican, although , I insist, we dance much more often "on 1" than we do it "on 2". We are not keen to put any distinctive tag in our style of dancing. When asked, we say we dance "Cross Body Style". Do you really care? If you don't, we neither.