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Here’s what i say to my students and i'm sharing it with you: If your intention is to spend a great evening with your partner/wife/gf and not switch partners then it's all good! Now, if you wanna dance with others at some point, i recommend switching partners because you acquire a very important skill : adaptation. The struggle is real  at first but it gets easier over time… the wonderful thing is everyone is different so by dancing with many partners your lead or follow will become way more clearer and smoother … so i encourage you to continue and tolerate the discomfort ;)

Open letter to our Prime Minister Hello Mr. François Legault, My name is Ilias Benz and I am a teacher, owner and director of a Salsa and Latin dance school.  I am out of breath, out of patience, out of hope and especially out of financial resources. Before I begin, I would like to mention that I am double vaccinated and have followed all the rules since the beginning of the pandemic. My business has been greatly affected a little more with each new wave and new measures.  I have not been able to pay myself a salary for two years now. At the beginning, I had some confidence in your decisions, I was a good player and I was hopeful that better days were around the corner. (The time of rainbows on the windows after having reimbursed clients thousands of dollars...) But this confidence has slowly eroded following your often incomprehensible and contradictory interventions. First of all, I would like to know what your plan is for the future, apart from the repeated confinements and business closures. I am now wondering if I should change fields or continue to lose money every day... But for how much longer? I know it's serious situation, but when the measures are no longer sustainable, maybe we should think about a new approach, right? As Einstein said: "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result" At least, your paternalistic speech should be stopped. I believe that people are responsible enough, that they have done more than their best and that they have had enough.   Everyone has made the necessary efforts, but those whose business is closed at a loss, dance, [...]

( Translated from the letter below ) CONSUMER CHOICE RECOGNITION OF EXCELLENCE Congratulations Baila Productions Laval Salsa School Consumers and businesses in your area have chosen your company as the recipient of the 2021 Consumer Choice Award in the category: Dance School - Laval. We are delighted to be able to share this news with you today and to offer you the opportunity to learn more about the Consumer Choice Award. To earn this award, you stood out from all the other businesses in your category, which is something you should be very proud of. You are recognized as a valued member of your community without having exerted any influence. You can now say that you have been chosen as the top rated business in your category. To ensure that you have been chosen fairly and impartially, the Consumer Choice selection process uses data from a variety of reliable sources to produce accurate research results. You can be confident that you have been chosen on your own merit and your company's reputation in your community. Consumers are always looking for the best businesses in their area. In addition to claiming that you are the best, you will now be able to market that fact by using the Consumer Choice logo and take advantage of the various marketing programs available exclusively to winners of this award. The recognized and prestigious symbol that is the Consumer Choice logo will allow your current and future customers to quickly identify you as a trusted company. This is the greatest advantage you have over your competitors. Enclosed you will find the contact information of our business development manager in your area who will contact you. She will tell you more [...]

The following was written by Laurent Duperval one of our awesome Salsa students “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I was petrified. If you had been there you would have had difficulty distinguishing me from the wall. I admit it was my fault. I thought it was from 8 to 11 PM but it was from 7 to 10 PM. I showed up at nine. Everyone seemed to know each other and they were all way out of my league. Finally, after 30 minutes, I mustered enough courage to ask someone to dance. To my surprise—and relief—she said “yes” with a smile. I was probably terrible. After another 20 minutes of hesitation, I gathered enough courage to ask someone else to dance. She said yes. I was still terrible. Then it was over. That, in a nutshell, was my first experience at a Baila Productions dance. Almost two years later, I have managed to become more comfortable on the dance floor. Yet, every time I go to a new club, I feel like the very first time I went to a Baila dance. Truth be told, I sometimes don’t go to a club unless people I know will be there already. My confidence in asking strangers to dance isn’t all that it could be. I still keep this experience close to my heart every time I go to a dance and it guides my behavior. In fact, like Asimov’s robot, I live by three rules. Rule number 1: I always dance with at least one new person at every dance. I make a special effort to identify women that I’ve never seen before, especially [...]

Baila Productions is celebrating 15 years of existence and it’s because of you that this is possible. It’s because you decided to jump on board with us that a simple idea became this healthy dance school. I want to thank you for your loyalty. Every time you choose to take classes with us, to come to our events, to read our blogs and to watch our crazy videos it reminds us how lucky we are to put our skills at your service. I hope that you will continue with us for another 15 years.

It’s quite surprising to know that even nowadays Salsa dancing is misunderstood by those who have never tried it! You always wanted to try, but you’re holding back because you imagine that to learn this dance you need some of kind of crazy skill? Maybe, you’re a bit shy and you’re thinking you’ll be the only one that has 2 left feet. First of all, you don’t need to know how to dance to learn Salsa. At our school, you don’t a partner either. You don’t need gifted. You don’t need to be athlete. Rest assured that every one in the beginner level has no particular Salsa skills and many like you say they have 2 left feet. You just need to be willing to try something new with an open mind and smile. Let sum it up! Salsa is a pretext to get together with like minded passionate people to move, have fun and laugh. It’s a shortcut to Happiness. So it makes the perfect gift to give to a loved one or even yourself. So look no further contact us and we’ll be glad to issue a gift certificate of any amount you desire. We are Salsa blackbelts and 2 Left feet specialists 14 years at your service !

If there is one thing that we all have in common, it is that we are unique. Each of us has our own essence; a personality, preferences, strengths, weaknesses, qualities and faults. Each person weaves his own tapestry throughout their lives based on experience which define us. It is art. And it is inspiring. When I walk into a dance class, I am warmly greeted by people from various walks of life, and all kinds of cultural backgrounds. There are singles, married people, young and old, all at different stages of their life. We all bring our own story to the dance floor, and when we come together, it is poetry in motion. It doesn’t matter how well you can dance- just that you want to try. In reflecting on this, it seems only natural that salsa would inspire such a melting pot.  First things first. What is a melting pot, you ask? According to Wikipedia, it is “a pot in which metals or other materials are melted and mixed.” Or, “a place where different peoples, styles, theories, etc., are mixed together "a melting pot of disparate rhythms and cultures". Salsa gets its roots from beautiful and complex Cuba, and it is a well-known fact that Canadians have a crush on Cuba.  But it goes even deeper than that. The essence of salsa was brought together byimmigrants who went to Latin America either searching for a better life or against their will (African slaves). The influences of Danzón, the dance of French and Haitian immigrants, orRumba from the African slaves, and the Són of the Cuban people, blended with troubadour music (mostly Flamenco) of the Spanish people as well as various musical instruments of Africa. [...]