OUR LATINO INSTRUCTORS
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Salsa (Claudia) Mendoza De Rodriguez
​OWNER DIRECTOR
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Born from a Famous Flamenco Dancer and Uruguayan father, from the age of 5 she started salsa dancing to movies. She got her nickname Salsa Baby from being the youngest in her area to be involved in the community. The name Salsa has stuck with her for over 18 years. Getting her professional start with Picante Latin Dance one of the biggest event organizers on the latin scene and most recently teaching for Latin Dance Australia and expanding into her own dance school. She started assistant teaching in 2004 at Newcastle University. From 2005 she was apart of Candombe Groups in Sydney YAUGURU and URUMBE, in 2007 she created her own performance group Naturally Salsa. She loves to bring people together with smiles and joy as thats what dancing is all about and  her aim when teaching her students. ​​

Ysrael Joel Rodriguez
​OWNER DIRECTOR
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Moving to Australia in 2005 from Lima, Peru to be with his father and brothers in a better country with more opportunities. He realised there is a gap in the market in Campbelltown and wanted to introduce this area to the amazing latino culture he grew up with. His aim is to increase awareness of latin culture, food, and all types of latino dances from Salsa to Merengue and all in between. ​He loves his Cuban Salsa either listening or dancing. Don't know a name of a song? This guy is the one to get it for you! Social dancing is one of his favorite ways to dance!

2008 - Claudia Teaching with Picante Latin Dance
2009 - Claudia Performed at International Bachata Festival Zouk Bachata
2010 - Claudia Performed and Taught at Darling Harbour Fiesta
2010 - Both Performed at International Bachata Festival
2012 - Both Created Forbidden Dance Company
2012 - Performed at Pachanga & Silisila Night Club
2018 - Teaching for Latin Dance House & Latin Dance Australia
2018 - Teaching Cuban Workshop for Ritmo Festival
2019 - Created Dance Latino
2019 - Teaching Cuban Workshop for International Bachata Festival
2019 - Taught Basic Rueda on Carnival Cruise Lines
2019 - Performing at Sydney Salsa Mambo Convention, Wollondilly Illuminarte, Multicultural Day, FEAST Campbelltown and many more.

Tamara Fuego
REGGAETON & SAMBA


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Born in Chile and raised in Australia, Tamara’s love for dancing began in South America where she was influenced by its rich roots in Latin music, hypnotic rhythms, breathtaking landscapes and colourful culture.  At the age of 7 she began dancing and performing Chilean folkloric dancing and flamenco at Latin festivals and clubs. As a child she also trained in jazz, singing and acting.
In 2007 she began her training in samba, salsa, bachata and reggaeton with LDA and has trained samba under renowned international artists including Luana Bandeira, Mayara Lima, Gabrielle Castro, Alex Coutinho, and Kellyn Rosa.

2007-2010 Performed for LDA samba swat team & Sydney Salsa Congress
2010- Performed for Rhythm Brazil
2011 to Current- Performing for Batucada Brazil for the past 8 years
2011 to 2014- Performed at the Brazilian Festival
2012- Performed for the Australian Olympic athletes homecoming parade
2013- Performed at Carnival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
2013 - Performed in Auckland, NZ for Bras ‘N’ Things Brazilian range launch.
2015- Bar Brazilia resident dancer
2016-2017- Ipanema Grill Restaurant resident dancer
2016- Taught Samba classes
2017 to Current- Performing for Salsa Kingz for their “Ricky Martin Tribute Shows”
2017 to Current- Performing for Aluminus Entertainment.
2018- Performed at the Universal Music/ EMI after party for the Aria Awards & Uruguayan Festival
2018- Taught children from 2-8 years mixed Latin dancing including salsa, reggaeton, bachata and samba. Along with adult classes as well.
2018- Performed “The Aluminus Goddess Show” production for Aluminus Entertainment
2018- Performed at the Spanish Film Festival and The Spot Festival

Este Mantas
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Robert Michaels
​ZOUK

Robert has been dancing zouk for 10 years. He Loves Zouk with a passion and you wont see him dance anything else. His teaching style is unique with fantastic technique and lead tips. His favourite thing to do is to head to the zouk social dance floor on the weekend to live in the Zouk World.

2009 - Salsabor Canberra.
2010 - Started teaching beginners at both salsabor and kmotion.
2010 - Performing zouk with Latin heat for 2 years and went on to being their choreographer for more routines. 
2012 - Taught for step up dance for 2 years
2014 - Teaching for Salsa Republic for 2 years and at the same time was performing with Latin Dance Australia and Choreographing with them.
2016 - Started to teach with Go dance and I was teaching zouk, salsa and bachata. 2017 He was teaching salsa, bachata and zouk with zouk amor including choreography and performances.
2019 - He started with us Dance Latino and have never looked back.

Francesca Fidanza
​ZUMBA

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Francesca Fidanza is here to be your Zumba Instructor. Trained professionally with ZIN ZUMBA! Hit all the latin tunes!
Enjoying fitness can be difficult at times, you can sometimes feel lost, out of place, unmotivated or just plain bored, but she strongly believe if you join her Zumba class you won’t even feel like you are working out. Her vision is to create a space for you to feel confident, safe, vibrant and motivated. In her class, levels do not exist, we are all here to dance our hearts out and have the best time. She wants to form a Zumba family! You won’t regret it and it will be a party!!!



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Max Morte
SALSA & BACHATA trainee

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