Authentic Casino from Havana's roots — taught 100% in English. Better for your head than the gym, and a lot more fun.
Two beginner groups open this autumn, one in each city. Both start with a trial class: no partner, no experience, no commitment. If you join the course afterwards, the 1.000 ISK comes off the price.
1.000 ISK, deducted from the course if you enrol. Places are limited — each group runs with a minimum of five couples.
Not a promo shoot. Regular students, regular Tuesday, learning Lady Style in Reykjavík.
Every class is built on authentic Cuban Casino — the social, circular, playful salsa danced on the island. Not a watered-down version of it.
Partnerwork, leading and following, and the figures that make Cuban salsa social. Come alone or with a partner — we rotate so everyone dances.
Movement, technique and styling for women. Body isolation, arm work, turns and the attitude that turns steps into dancing.
Technique and styling for men. Posture, footwork, musicality and clean leading — the details that separate a dancer from someone who knows the steps.
Intensive sessions focused on a single thing: technique, styling, musicality or a specific set of Casino figures. Perfect if you want to break a plateau fast.
Professional animation, teaching or performance for company events, team-building, weddings and private parties. Tailored to your group, in English or Spanish.
Honest placement matters more than ego. Pick the level that matches your experience — and if you're unsure, just say so in the form. Hector will put you where you belong.
No experience, no partner and no rhythm required. You will dance on your first day. This is where almost everyone here started — and where our new groups open.
For dancers who have completed at least one course and are comfortable with the basic Casino steps. Several intermediate groups run every week; tell us what you've done and Hector will place you in the right one.
For experienced dancers who can follow complex figures and rueda calls at social speed, without stopping to think.
Every face here started somewhere. Most of them walked in alone.
Open the level that sounds like you. Every class lasts 50 minutes and is taught in English, at Bíldshöfði 10, Reykjavík.
A director with 15+ years of international teaching and choreography behind him — not a hobbyist running a side project.
Every class is taught in English. No translating, no guessing, no getting lost halfway through the count.
Icelanders and internationals in the same room. Ekki bara dans — a place to actually meet people.
Most people walk in alone and having never danced. That's the normal starting point here, not the exception.
Born in Venezuela, Hector is a professional teacher, dancer and choreographer. In 2009 he founded Ritmos Dance Studio Venezuela. It opened as a salsa school and grew into one of the largest in the country, with over 250 students, later adding traditional bachata and kizomba to a full program built around partnerwork and Rueda de Casino — authentic Cuban salsa, or Casino, as it's called on the island.
He taught classes and workshops across the entire country and was one of the first teachers to bring kizomba to Venezuela. He later spent time teaching in Colombia, and then settled in Iceland. Here he founded Hector Latin Dance, and for the past year and a half has been teaching Lady Style, Men Style and couples dancing to a growing community in Reykjavík.
Hector Latin Dance is a structured, professional dance school with a program designed to connect people through authentic movement — whether that's weekly classes, intensive workshops, or corporate and private events.
Fill this in and Hector will get back to you personally with the next available start date, the timetable and the price for your level. Usually within 24 hours.
People come to have fun. What they get on top of that has been measured, and it is not small.
A study that followed people over 75 for five years found dancing was the only physical activity associated with a lower risk of dementia — 76%, the largest reduction of any leisure activity measured.1
Six months of dance training increased hippocampal volume in healthy seniors. Conventional endurance training did too — but only the dancers improved their balance.2
A meta-analysis of 41 controlled studies with 2,374 participants found dance and dance-movement therapy reduce depression and anxiety and improve quality of life.3
Moving in sync with others raises the pain threshold — a marker of endorphin release — and measurably increases how close you feel to the people you danced with.4
Join Hector Latin Dance — and don't just let your feet dance.
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Group classes last 50 minutes and are taught in English. A course is six classes over six weeks. Groups run with a minimum number of students; if a group does not reach it, we will offer you another group or a full refund.
The trial class costs 1.000 ISK and is available to beginners. If you enrol on a course afterwards, that amount is deducted from the course price. It is not refundable if you do not enrol.
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