Somoloco

16/11/2024

Somoloco Salsa Class Series is in New York City for the month of December

Come learn fundamentals of Salsa On-2 with NicoMambo in a beautiful Union Square studio.

Every Thursday, 7:30-8:30pm for the month of December starting December 5th.

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17/10/2024

BARCELONA, SPAIN HERE WE COME 💃🏻🇪🇸

📣Announcing two special Somoloco Group Immersions in the city of Gaudi, tapas, and dancing galore.

Cuban Salsa Immersion: Mar 30 - Apr 6, 2025
Sensual Bachata Immersion: Apr 6 - 13, 2025

10 person cap per immersion, don’t miss this special opportunity to join Somoloco in one of Europe’s most artistic, dynamic cities.

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11/10/2024

In addition to the core Somoloco Immersion, we offer several add-ons to enrich your experience even more. Take a look 👀

08/10/2024

Group Immersions occur only during listed dates on our IG and website, while Private Immersions run year round. Group immersions and Private Immersions have the same programming, just that Group Immersions are shared with other awesome participants from all over the world. So from the welcome dinner, to having buddies to go out for meals with in your down time, you’ll have peers to share the experience with. With that said we often have multiple participants during Private Immersion dates. And whether you come yourself on a Private Immersion or join a Group Immersion, you will always be accompanied by us for all programming, along with 24/7 support via whatsapp 🙂

27/09/2024

“In 2011 when things were getting bad in Venezuela I left for the Dominican Republic. I didn’t tell anyone that I was doing it. I just made the decision I was making a change in my life. And I didn’t realize what I had left behind until I had already moved.  Back in Venezuela I was volunteering to help kids from rough neighborhoods like me leave their situations through dance. It really hurt to  leave them because they didn’t continue dancing. I was the one giving them classes and providing a light, a hope. And as they’ve grown they continue to message me saying “Brayan, I miss you”, because they are people that trusted me, and looked at me as a role model and inspiration. This really hurt, including leaving my family like my Mom who is my everything in this life.”

-Brayan Llamoza, Venezuelan born NYC based Choreographer + Dancer, and Somoloco Friend

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11/09/2024

Read about us on Forbes!
Link in bio 🕺🏻💃🏻🔥

Excerpts:

“Love to travel and dance? Somoloco, a dance travel company based in Medellín, Colombia, combines these passions in a unique way. “Improve your dancing, experience the culture, meet amazing people, and have the best time,” says Seon Riesland, a recent participant from Hawaii.”

“Since 2018, founder David Schafran and the Somoloco community have hosted over 2,000 guests from around the world. They offer dance + cultural immersions in salsa, bachata, and other Latin dance styles, led by Colombia’s top instructors. These immersions cater to solo travelers, friends, and partners of all ages and skill levels.”

“Somoloco Immersions are all about fun, learning, and forging lasting friendships with people from around the world, united by a shared desire to live with joy, flavor, and affection. Guests learn in one week what would normally take six months of sporadic group or online classes,” says Schafran. Afterward, alumni return home with full hearts, newfound confidence, a deeper connection with themselves and their chosen dance, and a passion to continue dancing in their local communities.”

“Somoloco’s TripAdvisor reviews echo this sentiment, with participants calling the experience “Magical,” “Once in a lifetime opportunity,” “Healing,” and “The best place to learn salsa in the world.”

03/09/2024

“In the back of my head, I’m hearing those voices of my mom, ‘oh you’re not gonna have a future if you don’t have a degree in Israel, one degree, that’s not even enough. You’re gonna have two degrees to have a good paying job’. And I always heard those voices, and I said to myself, ‘I gotta do it. I gotta do it’. Though I’d been falling asleep in class, even missing some classes. The teacher was very sweet…I was portraying to her like I’m this hard working girl that is not in touch with her family and that I have to work late hours, so she was very compassionate towards me. Sometimes she let me get out of class to sleep on the bench outside and come back. Anyway, I struggled for months and even tried to link up with people from the school after to be ready. And I remember maybe a month before the final exams, I was watching dance videos on my phone, under the table. And I’m telling you, like in the movies, I hear the voice of my mom, of the degrees and this and that, and I’m like, “f this, I can’t do this anymore.” I just got up, like in the movies, I got all the books, went outside and threw them all in the trash. I remember walking out of that school and having a 50-50 feeling of extreme fear with extreme liberation. Does that make sense? Really, I felt like a free bird coming out of the cage, but she doesn’t know anything outside of the cage, so she’s free, but literally like that. And my life shifted from that exact day. I literally signed up for a dance studio, I think, the same week, I started taking dance classes. I’ve had the most beautiful time in my life since.”

-Doria “Dori” Levit, Israeli-born Florida based dance artist, Somoloco Friend

21/08/2024

“So coming out of high school in New York City, I had a volleyball scholarship, right? Like a small one, City College. I was doing that, and then my mom got sick. It was something that kind of turned my life a little bit, it was just me and her for a period of time. So when she got sick, I had to step up, and started to work. Giving up my scholarship and giving up my opportunity in college was one of the opportunities in life that I kind of wish I could have taken. Like go back and kind of do it just to see if I was good. Because in New York City, I was like, really good. I was one of the best players back in 2008 and I was coming out of high school really hot with, newspapers talking about me and all that was really cool. That was a very interesting piece of my life, and not being able to fulfill that, see where it could have gone, was something that was like, man, it kind of stung a little bit, but I was able to, I was able to help. Again, there’s no way I could ever pay my mom back for everything that she did for me throughout all these years, right? Getting me here, right? She was one of the main reasons why I’m in this country (from Colombia), why I’m an American citizen, why I’m able to do the things that I do now, right, and enjoy the freedom that I can have here in the States. But it was one of those challenges that it was like, there’s a bummer, like a bump in the road, but it led me back to dance again. Dance was one of the few, big, major things in my life I have always resonated with. It’s this idea of like, yo, if I lean into dance, good things happen! I meet great people. I am my best self. I am able to show people who I am, because I’m usually very introverted.”

-NicoMambo, Colombian-born New Yorker and social dancer

05/08/2024

With almost a decade of experience teaching thousands of new and veteran dancers, we have fine tuned what it takes for you to dance salsa, bachata and other latin dances so you can live with more joy, flavor and affection.

Come find out for yourself! All levels, all ages welcome. Just be ready to move :)

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02/08/2024

Come join us in 2025 for our group salsa, bachata, zouk, reggaeton or tango immersions! 🎉

Can’t make it? No sweat! We host private group + individual immersions year round!

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22/07/2024

✅ Improve your dancing
✅ Experience Colombian culture
✅ Meet amazing people
✅ Have the best time

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08/07/2024

Private classes work! 15 hours per week of one-on-one dance classes gets you much further, MUCH FASTER, than periodic group classes ☝️

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02/01/2024

We are big believers in private, one-on-one dance instruction. Beside the fact that you’ll learn 10x faster than in a group class, its also more fun and personal :)

In our immersions, we provide 15 hours of private, one-on-one dance class per week, customized to you! That’s in addition to group classes, nights social dancing with your teachers, and special experiences geared towards you fully immersing yourself in the spirit + culture of salsa in Medellin Colombia 🥰(we also do immersions in bachata and tango 🕺🏻💃🏻)

29/08/2023

Today's good mood is sponsored by café 😄🫶

In this Special Experience we went to the fairytale-like village of Jardín, just three hours from Medellín 🌱

01/03/2023

Salsa soul sisters 👯‍♀️, February 2023 Group Immersion

01/03/2022

22/02/2022

Watch David share the Somoloco Salsa origin story on Colombia’s #1 Salsa radio station, Latina Stereo 100.9