Spanish & Dance

Dance, like language, is an important form of communication. Spain, and above all, Andalulcia (the cradle of Flamenco), is at the forefront of the worldwide fascination with Latin and Mediterranean dance rhythms.

Malaca Instituto has, for many years, offered the chance to its students to participate in dance classes as a part of its cultural activities programme. In the last few years we have added an excellent dance studio to the facilities on our mini-campus. It is fully equipped with a wooden dance floor, air-conditioning, a practice bar and mirror.

We are now making full use of this facility by offering professional-level intensive Dance classes combined with a course of general Spanish. This programme consists of 2 lessons each day of dance which are added to 4 lessons of general Spanish at each student’s particular level.

Those are the basic details but what is the real experience that is being offered? Our students come from all over the world and range in age from 16 to over 90! So whatever the course being offered the students have the tremendous chance to live and study in an exciting multi-cultural and multi-lingual environment. In addition they will learn, or improve their knowledge of, the world’s second most important business language – Spanish – an excellent career improving skill.

Our students can choose to live in a Spanish host family to gain maximum contact with Spaniards and learn about the Spanish way of life, or in our on-site residence and make the most of the multi-cultural environment or they can share an apartment with other students and lead a more independent lifestyle.

With regards the dance classes themselves we decided to offer 2 options: Sevillanas, the more traditional option at the heart of Andalucian cultural heritage, and Salsa, the Latin dance form of greatest worldwide appeal at the moment. At this point we should point out that the “Salsa” course has developed to include other Latin dance forms as well such as Merengue, Mambo, Cumbia etc. For those of you who are not sure about these dance forms, “Sevillanas” is one of the most popular dance forms of Flamenco and Salsa comes from Central and South America and is especially popular in Cuba

Our Flamenco dance teacher studied at the Malaga Conservatorio in Dance and in teaching Spanish and Flamenco dance. She has been a dance teacher at Malaga University and has performed professionally with dance groups such as that formed by the teacher Rosa Col and has studied privately with Pepito Vargas.

Our Salsa dance teacher is an extremely experienced Argentine teacher of dance and choreographer who amongst other professional activities has been a university teacher of dance in Mendoza, Argentina and has organised dance festivals at a national and regional level in Argentina before coming to Spain and continuing a similar career here.

The Spanish and Dance programmes can be taken for 2 or 4 weeks but those students who then want to continue studying dance in Malaga can ask the school or the dance teachers for information about the numerous possibilities available.

For people who are interested not only in dance but in learning about other cultures and meeting peoples from other parts of the world and doing so in a beautiful Mediterranean setting, this programme can provide an unforgettable experience.

Lastly I would like to point out that Malaca Instituto has over 30 years’ experience teaching Spanish and is a renowned teaching centre that can boast the independent quality guarantees associated with being an Accredited Centre of the Instituto Cervantes, having passed the inspection of the University of Alcala (CEELE) and being member of EAQUALS and IALC.

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