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Join the Son Camp IV in East Cuba 2024 tour, Jan. 21 / Feb. 5!

And give yourself a unique 14 day´s Cuban son dance adventure vacation? – With the very best that “Santiago - The Son City of Cuba” and East Cuba can offer you in Cuban Son dancing, -music, -culture and dance history, combined with Cuban salsa, cha cha chá, mambo, bolero, rumba and afro.

Max. 15 seats! / First Come - First served!
2 seats left!!
You can sign up now here at: www.salsacampevents.dk
Very last deadline to sign up: December 7!

See the tour description in Danish here:
https://www.salsacampevents.dk/index.php/da/cuba-rejser/son-camp-iv-east-cuba-2024-jan-21-feb-5-dk

See the highlights here from the Son Camp III in East-Cuba 2023 Tour!
https://www.facebook.com/salsacampevent.dk/videos/1302560530306500


About the Tour Program
The Son Camp IV in East-Cuba Tour is organized by the Salsa Camp Events Travel Agency in cooperation with the Yanek Revilla ABC Dance School in Santiago, the Sabor DKY dance company and friends.

You can look forward to an awesome tour program, where you will have maximum time and possibilities to boost your son dancing skills and to enjoy the special East Cuban vibes by getting under the skin and roots of the Cuban son dance & music culture and the people in Santiago and East-Cuba.

The tour program is organized with two dance- and culture program blocks of 5 days, which are seperated by a 3  day´s weekend program with the possibility to do own activities like exploring Santiago and surrounding and parts of East-Cuba like Holguin, Guantanamo and Baracoa, as the overview illustrated here: 

Overview Tour Program, Jan. 21 / Feb.5
Sunday…………….. 21:   Travel & Welcome
Mon-Friday……..22-26:   Dance Program 1
Sat-Monday…….27-29:   Weekend own activities
Tues-Saturday.….30-03:   Dance Program 2
Sun-Monday……04-05:   Goodbye & Travel

See draft 1 of the day-to-day-tour-program below

About the dance -and culture program
The dance- and culture program includes 20 hours of dance workshops with Cuban dance partners and 6 hours of culture and musicality workshops, divided in 10 dance workshops and 3 culture workshops in each of the two dance programs of 5 days. Which will be combined with a super lovely bouquet of social dancing activities, parties, concerts, dance performances, beach tours, culture excursions and the possibility to do private lessons, cultural and social activities on your own.

A typical day of the dance -and culture program will be like this:
09.45-10.00: Morning assembly
10.00-12.15: Dance workshops
12.15-14.00: Lunch
14.00-15.00: Culture workshop
15.00-17.30: Free time for own private lessons, culture and social activities
18.00-21.00: Dinner and free time
21.00-24.00: Common night dancing activity
                     or possibility for doing own night activities

About the dance levels, teaching and dance partners
You shall sign up for the dance program according to your dance level in the Cuban Son, like: Intermediate, advanced and very advanced.

The dance and culture program will be organized as a musicality-oriented program with emphasis on how to dance, play and connect to the music and your dance partner. This will include the teaching in workshop topics from basic son dance technique and leader-follower connection to classical son figures, body movements and footwork as well as son mix with cha cha cha, mambo, bolero, salsa, rumba and afro.

The dance program will be taught by the leaders of the ABC Dance School, Yanek Revilla & Yisel Cuba, as the main teachers, presenting the main workshop topics of the day, which you will train and followed up with your dance assistant. Either in pairs alone or in pairs in small groups. The training with the dance assistants will be supervised by Yanek Revilla & Yisel Cuba and supported by additional dance assistants.

You can look forward to meet some of the best skilled son dancers and assistants in Santiago de Cuba, where a big part of the dancing assistant also were particiating as assistants at Son Camp III 2023 tour.

The dance assistants have a mixed dancing background, including dance teachers, instructors and main company dancers from the Yanek ABC Dance School, the ISA University, the Folclórico del Cutumba and the Folclorico del Oriente dance companies and present and former members of the Sabor DKY Dance Group.

The dance program further includes that you can have private lessons in dancing, percussion and music in all the Cuban dance styles that you want.

About the casa particulares
You will be accommodated in some of the best big casas particulares in Santiago, which are situated near by each other and close to the Santiago Town Center and the main dancing, concerts and cultural venues. So, you are able to reach all program activities by walking.

Some of the casas particulares have big roof terraces, where you can organize common dancing and social activities.

About traveling to Santiago & East Cuba
We will fly directly from Copenhagen and Frankfurt to Holguin in East Cuba with the Condor Air Company and go by bus from Holguin to Santiago. So you will have the shortest traveling time and the maximum time and days to expire and enjoy your stay in Santiago and East Cuba. 

The traveling schedule will be:

January 21:   Flight time 15h 20m
06.40-08.10:   Departure Copenhagen Airport and arrival Frankfurt Airport
11.10-16:10:   Departure Frankfurt Airport and arrival Holguin Airport
17.10-20.00:   Departure Holguin Airport and arrival Santiago de Cuba

February 4-5: Flight time 12h 15m
13.00-16.10:   Departure Santiago de Cuba and arrival Holguin Airport
18.10-09.45:   Departure Holguin Airport and arrival Frankfurt Airport
11.55-12.25:   Departure Frankfurt Airport and arrival Copenhagen Airport

About the Price
The price of the Son Camp IV tour will be 24.200 DKK / 3.340 euro for a double room
and 26.100 DKK / 3.600 euro for a single room. (Reservations are made for possible price increases due to the situation in Cuba)

The price includes:
- Condor flight, Copenhagen-Frankfurt-Holguin in East-Cuba/return
- Visa
- Bus Holguin-Santiago/return
- 15 nights incl. breakfast in big Casa Particulares in Santiago
- 20 hours of dance workshops with Cuban dance partners
-  6 hours of culture & musicality workshops
-   Welcome & goodbye parties,
-   Santiago City Tour & culture workshop with introduction to East Cuba
-   2 beach tours
-   2 Santiago by night parties
-   Social dancing with all expenses paid for Cuban dance partners at announced common parties
    and activities.
-   Tourguide with super servivces - incl. support to plan own excursions & activities
-   Minimum 14 & maximum 20 participants
-   Possibility to prolong your stay in Cuba.

The price does not includes:

-   Lunch & dinner
-   Cancellation insurance
-   Travel insurances

Sign Up & Payment
You sign up at the www.salsacampevents.dk website, after which you will recive a mail with confirmation and bank information to pay the registration fee of  2.000 DKK / 285 Euro. You are fully confirmed as tour member when the registration fee is paid.

The rest of the tour payment will be divided into two equal payments rates, with the first rate to be paid latest October 2nd and the second rate latest December 1st


Cancelation & refund

With cancelation before December 1st you will receive a total refund minus the registration fee of 2.000 DKK / 270 Euro.


I am looking forward meeting you all for an awesome Son Camp IV in East Cuba Tour

If you need further information, please feel free to contact me:

Carl
Salsa Camp Events Travel Agency
+45) 2323 5728 / This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Member of the Danish Rejsegarantifonden (3236)
www.salsacampevents.dk

 
 

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                                 DRAFT 1: Day to Day Program                                                               Son Camp IV in East-Cuba 2024, Jan.21 / Feb.5                                                                        
Sunday 21:  Copenhagen-Franfurt-Holguin-Santiago 
04.40: Check in together in Cph. Airport: Luftthansa (Cph-Frankfurt, LH 825) 
06.40-08.10: Departure/Arrival Cph-Frankfurt
11.10-16.10: Departure/Arrival Frankfurt-Holguin (Condor, DE 2206)
17.10-20.00: Departure/Arrival Holguin-Santiago (Bus) 
 
Monday 22: Santiago
07.30-09.00: Breakfast time
10.00-10.30 Wellcome & Presentation 
10.30-12.45 Son workshop 1+2
13.00-14.30: Lunch time
15.00-17.30: City-Walk with Yanek Revilla 
19.00-21.00: Welcome dinner 
21.30-23.30 Welcome social dance party with Cuban assistants
 
Tuesday 23:  Santiago
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
11.15-12.15: Son workshop 3+4
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-15.30: Culture workshop 1
15.45-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.30-23.30 Social dance party with Cuban assistants  
 
Wednesday 24: Santiago - Caleton beach
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
08.45-18.00: Beach Tour to the Caleton Beach with Cuban assistants
10.00-12.15 Son workshop 5+6 
12.30-14.00 Lunch time 
14.00-17.00: Free time own beach activities (Possibility private lessons)
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.00……..: Free time own activities 
 
Thursday 25: Santiago
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
10.00-12.15: Son workshop 7+8 
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-15.30: Culture workshop 2 - Yanek Revilla 
15.45-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.30-23.30: Free time own activities
 
Friday 26: Santiago
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
10.00-12.15: Son workshop 9+10 
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
15.45-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
21.00-23.30: Social dance party with Cuban assistants  
 
Saturday 27 & Sunday 28: Santiago & East Cuba
Free time 2½ day free time own activities: Possibilities?   
Make a weekend trip to Baracoa or a day trip to Holguin or Guantanamo
Enjoy the weekend in Santiago with culture & nature excursions & Santiago by Night activities:
Doing Museums & art galery tours; 
Having private lessons in dancing, percussion, Spanish…
Viset a Cuban instructors familily in the barrios of Santiago
Making nature walk in Sierra Maestra
Relax at a beach hotel 
Seeing a Tropicana show and other Dance Company Show performances
And many more possibilities…
Monday 29: Santiago 
Free time 2½ day free time own activities 
15.00-17.15: Son workshop 11 + 12
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.00…......: Free time own activities
 
Tuesday 30: Santiago 
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
10.00-12.15: Son workshop 13+14 
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-15.30: Culture workshop 3 - Yanek Revilla
15.45-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner
20.30-23.30: Social dance party with Cuban assistance 
 
Wednesday 31: Santiago
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
10.00-11.00 Son workshop 15: 
11.15-12.15: Son workshop 16:
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
18.00-22.30. Free time own activities 
 
Thursday 1: Santiago - Chivirico 
07.00-08.00: Breakfast time
08.15-20.30: Beach Dance & Culture Tour to the fishertown Chivirico 
20.30……..: Free time own activities 
 
Friday 2: Santiago 
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting
10.00-12.15: Son workshop 17+18: 
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-15.30: Culture workshop 4 - Yanek Revilla
15.45-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.00-24.00: Free time own activities 
 
Saturday 3: Santiago 
07.30-08.30: Breakfast time
09.45-10.00: Morning meeting 
10.00-12.15: Son workshop 19 +20: 
12.15-14.00: Lunch time
14.00-17.30: Free time own activities, private lessons, possibility culture excursions etc.
18.30-20.00: Dinner time
20.00-24.00: Goodbye party with Cuban assistants 
 
Sunday 4: Santiago-Frankfurt 
07.30-08.30: Breakfast
08.30-12.00:  Free time own activities
12.00-15.00: Departure Santiago/Holguin 
Arrival Holguin & Check in Condor DE 2207
18.10: Departure Holguin/Frankfurt 
 
Monday 5: Frankfurt-Copenhagen
09.45: Arrival Frankfurt
11.05-12.30: Departure-Arrival, Frankfurt/Cph
12.30: Hugs & Goodbye kisses 

 

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