La XPRESION LATINA

Yvonne Goldsmith is one of Australia's most well recognised salsa dancer with training in Jazz, Salsa (On1 & On 2), Samba, Zouk, Lambada, Gymnastics and Pilates.

Yvonne  won 1st place at the Australian Salsa Classic in April 2007 and placed 13th in the On2 division at the World Salsa Championships in Orlando (December 2007). Yvonne in July 2007 was a semi-finalists representing Australia at the Puerto Rico World Salsa Open.

She has travelled to represent Australia in Italy, Japan, England, Switzerland, Singapore, Los Angeles, New Zealand, Orlando, Malaysia, Puerto Rico and all around Australia teaching workshops, private lessons, performing and competing.  She has received many invitations to represent Australia in places such as San Fransisco, Berlin, Madrid, Thailand, Tonga, New York, Indonesia, Hawaii, Dubai and Houston. She is the host of a latin dance television show in Australia.        

The young Yvonne is known for her fire, energy, attitude, spins and ladies shines and styling.
Since October 2002 she has taught countless numbers of students, her forte being with advanced salsa dancers and ladies styling. She is also known for her ability to break down technique in detail and create and teach a choreography that can make students look professional. She has 3 DVDs for sale that have received rave reviews and which demonstrate the very detailed step by step instructions she is known for.
Her website here.

Yvonne began dancing salsa when her Peruvian best friend took her to latin club on her 18th birthday. She quickly became addicted to the latin rhythms and took to it like a fish to water utilising her jazz training. Salsa is such a free dance allowing great expression and she just adores performing. Yvonne also loves to dance salsa where she travels, it is such a universal language that gives great joy to so many people, no matter what your mother tongue is, we can still communicate across the language barrier with salsa. This is a sentiment echoed at the very heart of La Xpresionlatina, this our core aim and emphasis.

YVONNE'S major tip is to practice dancing with lots of different people to refine your lead/follow and make sure you practice but remember, its about enjoying yourself and not that you need to look like a clean, sharp, trained polished professional.... 

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