Salsa in Fort Collins, Colorado

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Natural RedHead

I hope this is the correct area for this...

Anyway, I will be going to Fort Collins this fall for school, and was wondering what the salsa scene is like there. Does any one know?
 
Natural RedHead said:
I hope this is the correct area for this...

Anyway, I will be going to Fort Collins this fall for school, and was wondering what the salsa scene is like there. Does any one know?
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It's been a few years, but it was pretty small back when I used to live in Denver. They had a salsa night every other Saturday - I forget the building name. You'd probably be better off either making the hour trip down to Denver, or maybe start up a night yourself?
 
It's good for a small college town. Two nights of salsa which are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuedays at a restaurant called Rio Grande (upstairs) and Thursdays at a club called Suite 152. A local dance company called The Rhythm Company hosts at the Rio and has a "social" feel to it, and the Suite has a regular dj and has more of the meat-market night club feel to it.

If you want more of it during the week, then most of us go to Denver (La Rumba, Blue Ice, Copacabana, Leela's), Arvada (D-Note), and sometimes Boulder (Millenium Hotel, St. Julians), all within about an hour's drive. There are plenty of great places to go dancing in the Denver area.
 
bumpskier said:
It's good for a small college town. Two nights of salsa which are on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Tuedays at a restaurant called Rio Grande (upstairs) and Thursdays at a club called Suite 152. A local dance company called The Rhythm Company hosts at the Rio and has a "social" feel to it, and the Suite has a regular dj and has more of the meat-market night club feel to it.

If you want more of it during the week, then most of us go to Denver (La Rumba, Blue Ice, Copacabana, Leela's), Arvada (D-Note), and sometimes Boulder (Millenium Hotel, St. Julians), all within about an hour's drive. There are plenty of great places to go dancing in the Denver area.
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Welcome to Salsaforums! Glad to see that Ft Fun's salsa scene has grown over the years!
 
Thanks for the tips!

I'm sure Denver is a great place for Salsa; unfortunately, I don't think I'll have a car when I'm down there. Well, I'll definitely have to check out those places in Ft. Collins!

How about classes? bumpskier, do you take lessons anywhere?
 
TJ, thanks. Yeah, I used to swing dance a while back ago and nobody taught salsa back then. I'm really glad that I can stay in town to enjoy salsa a couple of nights during the week.

NaturalRed, the Rhythm Company teaches classes on Thursdays at a studio and has a web site of their own using that name. They teach LA style and also Rueda once in a while. That's where I first started, then I took lessons from instructors down in Denver and Boulder. I believe someone at CSU teaches rueda style as well, but I'm not a student so I don't know who teaches it. The DJ at the Suite 152 teaches 1/2 hour class, but he teaches this Cumbia style, I'm guessing from Mexico, and many in clubs simply don't know the cross body move. The Cumbia has this "you turn, then I turn" pattern that gets repeated over and over and frankly, it gets boring after a while but I incorporate it in my style 'cause women love it. My recommendation is to take classes from the Rhythm Company and go from there.
 
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