Salsa & bachata in Amsterdam
Extremos is a salsa and bachata dance school in Amsterdam, teaching since 2000. Over fifty classes a week across four locations, from your very first step to dancing all night. No partner needed.
Two doors into the same school: never danced, or already know the basic step.
A €5 try-out class, a bootcamp in one afternoon, or the six-week Beginners 1 course. One page compares all three so you can pick without guessing.
No partner, no experience. Most people walk in alone and leave with twenty new dance partners.
Three ways to startImprovers, Intermediate and Advanced, salsa and bachata, five nights a week. Filter the schedule by level, style, day and location and book the ones that fit.
De Kroon · VROG · Orchid House · Mr. de Wit
Coming from another school? Every six weeks there is a try-out week at every level, so you get placed correctly instead of guessing.
Classes are practice. The dance floor on a Wednesday or a Sunday is the thing you are practising for.
Beginners and Improvers run as six-week courses with a fixed group. From Intermediate 1 you need a membership or a punch card.
The basics. No experience needed.
Turns, timing, connection.
Still a course, or any night with a membership.
Musicality, styling, your own voice.
Every level exists in both salsa and bachata, and plenty of people do both.
What you learn here, where, and in which language.
Cross body salsa on1, also called LA style: the dance runs along a line and the leader breaks forward on the first beat. It is what most people dance at the socials in Amsterdam. We do not teach on2 or Cuban salsa.
Bachata from the Dominican Republic: four steps with a tap, slower and closer than salsa. Most people get somewhere with it within the first hour.
Four rooms, Monday to Friday: De Kroon on Rembrandtplein in the centre, VROG near Waterlooplein, Orchid House in Oost by the Oosterpark, and Mr. de Wit on Baarsjesweg in West.
Every class, from Beginners 1 to Advanced, is taught in English, so you do not need to speak Dutch. You do not need a partner either: partners rotate every few minutes.
Every level, what happens in it and where it runs: all salsa and bachata classes in Amsterdam.
What is happening around the school.
New course rounds, extra nights, festival tickets. One list, and we only write when there is something worth knowing.