Cubana Week
16.02.2025 - 21.02.2025
Bookable
Would you like to learn the lively original Cuban Salsa or expand your existing knowledge? Would you like to practise and perfect internationally established figures and precise dance technique in pairs and in a group? Do you want to laugh heartily and really feel your incredible joie de vivre again?
Welcome to the right workshop!
The original Cuban Salsa is known as ‘Rueda de Casino’ or ‘Casino’ for short. This dance style offers the possibility to dance the figures in pairs as well as in a group in a circle ‘Rueda’ (= the wheel). Dancing in a circle offers the advantage of multiple changes of figures and lead, which can be practised and therefore learnt more quickly. This indescribably fun and wonderful way of dancing is a unique experience and incredible fun.
Important information
Shoes & clothing: Dance shoes with leather or normal leather, sneakers, comfortable soft shoes are an advantage / Bring enough change of clothes – we will make you sweat
Dance partner: My dance partner and a taxi dancer are also available. A balanced ratio cannot be guaranteed Due to the circle and changing partners, a surplus is easy to handle
Coach:
Georg Franz Kalandra
As an enthusiastic dance coach, I have been involved with salsa for over 20 years and am passionate about teaching this dance. I learnt the original salsa and all the associated Afro basic dances in numerous courses in Cuba from and with the local dance teachers and graduated with a diploma. I organise my lessons with a lot of energy and adapt the content to the needs of my dance group. The dance experience and personal success are guaranteed for beginners and advanced dancers.
Inspire yourself and your friends for this special experience and join us!
Viva la salsa, viva la vida!
Who else is taking part?
Just ask in the AVIVA make friends community who is taking part, get to know each other in advance and arrange to travel together.
Minimum number of participants: 4 people
The AVIVA inclusive services
- Overnight stay in a modern, south-facing multi-view room with a view of the Alps
- Free use of the AVIVA spa area & activity programme also on arrival & departure day
- Rich breakfast buffet with regional food from 7.30 am to 10.30 am (until 11.00 am at weekends)
- AVIVA Sweet & Sour Snack also on the day of arrival & departure with soups, various salads, hot snacks, cakes and tarts, coffee and fruit from 2.30 pm to 4.00 pm in the restaurant and on the hotel terrace in warm weather
- All-day fruit bar in the lobby and wellness area
- 6-course AVIVA make friends dinner with 3 different main courses to choose from, an extensive salad buffet and a cheese bar, as well as a weekly barbecue buffet with Austrian specialities at large communication tables with other guests.
- Various culinary highlights such as BBQ, street food, Mühlviertler Alm dinner, etc. at the themed events.
- Intolerances can be catered for by prior arrangement.
- Mainly regional food with a maximum transport distance of 50km
- Free use of the wellness & spa area on 2,000 m² on the day of arrival & departure: indoor pool, sauna area with earth sauna, Finnish sauna, soft sauna, infrared cabin, caldarium, relaxation room, tea, juice and fruit bar, as well as solarium (for a fee)
- Sauna infusions and steam bath peelings several times a week in the Finnish sauna, earth sauna
- Bathing bag with bathrobe, sauna towels and bath towels
- Modern fitness centre with Technogym equipment, including BodyCoach vibro, treadmill, spinning bike, ergometer and strength equipment
- bright vitality room equipped with various stretching, strengthening and fascia training machines
- Large wellness garden with loungers, swimming pond, outdoor whirlpool, relaxation and communication islands, beach volleyball court and table tennis table
- Get-together several times a week in the hotel’s various outlets
- Daily (except Sunday) varied indoor & outdoor sports programme, accompanied by a professional fitness trainer
- Use of the hotel’s own Nordic walking poles, mountain bikes (in summer) and cross-country skis, snowshoes and ice stock for the hotel’s own ice stock rink (in winter), as well as the option to hire modern e-bikes for a fee (subject to availability, please reserve in advance)
- Opportunity to take part in beer brewing and the brewery tour
- Dance club for partying with DJ from Thursday to Saturday
- Rustic alpine feeling on the AVIVA Alm on Tuesday and Thursday
- Broadband WLAN internet connection throughout the hotel, table football and darts
- free monitored car park directly in front of the hotel with 6 e-charging stations – 22kw/h with type 2 plug
- Low-cost shuttle 3 times a week – further details
- free carpooling platform for coordinating your own holiday arrival and departure with other guests – more details
- free participation in the AVIVA make friends online community – an online platform to stay in contact with other guests or to get to know them
- free participation in the AVIVA online guestbook – an online platform to see who else is staying at the hotel during your stay
- Extensive sustainability and energy-saving measures – further details
- a variety of measures for professional working conditions for around 80 employees
| 6 days / 5 nights for you (1 person) incl. dance workshop |
6 days / 5 nights for friends (2 people) incl. dance workshop |
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| AVIVA MehrBlick-room | from 876,- | from 735,- |
| AVIVA Sky on the 4th & 5th floor | from 956 ,- | from 815,- |
| AVIVA Suite 50m² | from 1.076,- | from 935 ,- |
- The daily updated prices can be found in the AVIVA online booking tool. Our tip: the earlier you book, the cheaper the price. Please note the early booking promotions and specials in the AVIVA newsletter.
- The price for you is valid for single occupancy, for friends for double occupancy per person.
- All prices are per person and stay and include the programme listed and all hotel inclusive services.
- The prices quoted are inclusive of VAT, plus the statutory local tax of 3.50 and a service charge of 3.50 per person per night.
- The AVIVA reservations team will be happy to answer your questions daily from 7 am to 8 pm.
Sunday
- 5.00 pm
Short explanation & overview of the course before the dance club
Division into beginners and advanced (can be changed at any time).
Warm-up session – Salsa Basics / Salsa Suelta
Fun with Latin American dancing – simple first movements.
Anyone can join in 🙂
Monday
- 10.00 – 10.45 a.m. & 11.00 – 11.45 a.m. Beginners course
- 16.00 – 16.45 & 17.00 – 17.45 Advanced course
- 21.00 – 22.00 Salsa social evening
Every salsa dancer is invited
Tuesday
- 10.00 – 10.45 a.m. & 11.00 – 11.45 a.m. Beginners course
- 16.00 – 16.45 & 17.00 – 17.45 Advanced course
- 21.00 – 22.00 Salsa social evening
Every salsa dancer is invited
Wednesday
- 10.00 – 10.45 a.m. & 11.00 – 11.45 a.m. Beginners course
- 16.00 – 16.45 & 17.00 – 17.45 Advanced course
- 21.00 – 22.00 Salsa social evening
Every salsa dancer is invited
Thursdays
- 10.00 – 10.45 a.m. & 11.00 – 11.45 a.m. Beginners course
- 16.00 – 16.45 & 17.00 – 17.45 Advanced course
- 21.00 – 22.00 Salsa social evening
Every salsa dancer is invited
