Salsa Viva Dance and Zumba Perth

Salsa Viva Dance Studio offers quality lessons in street Latin dance styles popular in Latin America, the Caribbean and beyond, ranging from Cuban Salsa and Son to Merengue, Bachata Mambo, Cha Cha and more.

OUR SERVICES

⭐ Customised Classes

Needing a fun, interactive activity to involve and connect your kids?

Seeking to boost staff morale for all employees with an easy and interactive activity for everyone?

Student Excursion - reconnect your children, teens and others by enrolling the whole class or your family in a customised Salsa Viva Dance class that’s suitable for all ages.

Appropriate for teenagers and children, dance has the power to reconnect relationships between people as well as reconnecting individuals with their mind, body and spirit.

⭐ Group Classes

From learning the basic elements of Salsa to burning up the dance floor, Salsa Viva Dance will provide you with professional tuition every step of the way.

⭐ Practice Lessons

Learning is one thing, but making the material work in a live setting while dancing with different people is quite another.

Involving new and established students practicing the dances together, Practice Lessons develop the information taught in Group Classes and Private Tuition by putting them into practice.

⭐ Private Tuition

Ideal for individuals and couples ahead of a special event, Salsa Viva’s private tuition will prepare you to shine on the dance floor.

ABOUT US

With degree qualifications and extensive teaching experience, our lead instructors bring authenticity and professionalism to every class.

⭐ Cindy Calderon

Cindy Calderon’s dance career began early in her home town Perth, starting with jazz ballet and contemporary before expanding into tap, ballroom, funk and flamenco. At 17, Cindy was selected for the WA Academy of Dance and Drama to develop a professional level of technical dance expertise.

Fast-forward through a 16-year business career to 2000, when Cindy rediscovered her love of dance with the warm, infectious Latin rhythms of Cuban Salsa. Before long she was an instructor and a manager at Juan Rando Dance Academy, Perth’s largest Salsa and Argentine Tango school.

In 2007 Cindy traveled to Cuba with husband Carlos, where they gained Diplomas in a number of Latin dance styles. Their dance journey continued through such exotic locations as Suriname, Trinidad, Puerto Rico and Miami before returning home to teach the craft to Perth’s next generation of Latin dancers.

Cindy is Australia’s original teacher of ZUMBA®, learning the technique and philosophy of this booming dance fitness craze from its founder Beto Perez and currently managing nine instructors.

⭐ Carlos Calderon

Born in El Salvador, Carlos was immersed in Latin music from an early age, with a background in traditional South American dances Cumbia and Merengue. It wasn’t until his adult years that Carlos took up Salsa, just a few months before his future wife Cindy began at the same dance school.

Together Carlos and Cindy gained Diplomas in a range of Latin dance styles under the tutelage of Cuban masters, professors Rafael Navarro Gomez in Santiago de Cuba and Mayra Gonzales Ramirez in Havana. The couple then established Salsa Viva Dance School in the South American nation Suriname, before relocating to Perth where Carlos’ love of Latin dance has resonated with residents of his new home. Hundreds of students have attended Salsa Viva Dance School not only for his impeccable credentials as a dancer and teacher, but also to share his passion for the craft.