Learn Salsa in Havana

Honest level: All levels — Cuban style is welcoming and social-first — ask the school exactly how far that goes in the time you have.

Intensive Week Course (10-hour package)

Salsabor a Cuba is a Havana dance school teaching Cuban Salsa (casino) alongside son, rumba, cha-cha-cha, mambo, Yoruba folklore and Rueda de Casino. The recommended immersive format is a 10-hour course over a week (roughly two hours a day for five days), in individual or small-group lessons with Cuban instructors, and you can extend across several weeks and arrange a taxi-dancer to practise at night in the city's clubs. It is open seven days a week and you set your own daily schedule.

You learn Cuban casino at its Afro-Cuban source in Havana, daily with local teachers, then test it on the city's social dance floors.

~160 USD per 10-hour course (individual); ~140 USD in a group of 5+

Why Salsabor a Cuba

• ★ 4.8/5 · 169 reviews on TripAdvisor ↗

— don't take my word, check it yourself

Ranked #5 of 52 Classes & Workshops in Havana on Tripadvisor, where reviewers repeatedly name individual instructors (such as Gerardo) and praise the patient, one-on-one teaching of authentic Cuban-style salsa, son, rumba and the full Cuban dance repertoire.

Schools in Havana

Checked by hand against each school's own course pages. No school paid to be listed.

• Salsabor a Cuba
  Intensive Week Course (10-hour package)
  Salsabor a Cuba is a Havana dance school teaching Cuban Salsa (casino) alongside son, rumba, cha-cha-cha, mambo, Yoruba folklore and Rueda de Casino.
  https://www.salsaborcuba.com/english/our-offers/
• La Casa del Son
  Multi-day group and private courses in Cuban Son, Salsa, Rumba, Cha-Cha-Cha and Rueda de Casino
  A dance school in a restored 1715 colonial house in Old Havana, founded in 2011 by Silvia Canals, teaching traditional Cuban dances such as Son, Salsa, Rumba and Rueda de Casino in level-divided group and private classes across six studios.
  https://lacasonadelson.com/en/
• Baila Habana
  Five- and six-day dance-holiday packages with daily one-to-one salsa, son and rumba lessons plus casa accommodation and evening club outings
  A social-project dance school in Havana offering five- and six-day salsa, son and rumba course packages with one-to-one Cuban partners, casa particular lodging and nightly accompaniment to dance clubs.
  https://www.baila-habana.com/en/

The credential

A World Latin Dance Cup or World Salsa Championship title — or a certified instructor diploma from a globally recognized academy (Swing Latino, Eddie Torres method) · Certifying body: No global belt or grading authority; the de facto standard is set by the World Latin Dance Cup / World Salsa Championships and recognized academy instructor certifications (e.g. Eddie Torres On2 method)

A recognised qualification an outside body stands behind is not the same as a certificate a school prints itself. We name which it is — you should ask the school the same.

Also for Salsa

What I check before I send you anywhere

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• The craft is actually alive there. A working scene, with people who do this every day — not a demo put on for visitors.
• There's a real teacher behind it. Named, still practising, and certified where the craft has certificates.
• The credential is what it claims to be. A state diploma and a certificate a school prints itself are not the same thing. I check which, and I say which.
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