Dance Classes and Events

Beginners’ Couple Salsa Workshop
Instructed by Anna Tolppa

Would you like to learn to dance couple salsa? This intensive course starts from the very basics, so you do not need any prior knowledge about salsa dancing. Anna is always instructing in English, when there are people who do not speak Finnish. Start a new great hobby and come and have fun with us!

During the course, you will get familiar with the basic steps of couple salsa, and we will practice rhythmics, some simple figures as well as techniques of both leading and following.

Time: Sat, the 27th of March 2021, at 13:30-15:30 (2 hours)
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84
Price: 25 €
Teacher: Anna Tolppa

Register for the workshop by purchasing it from our webshop.

You can register for this course only if you have a dance partner to register with. If you would like to join the course and you don’t have your own partner, send us an email to info@flama.fi and we will try to find you a partner to dance with during the workshop. During this workshop, like in all other couple dance courses, we highly recommend to use face masks.

And yes, you don’t need to have had any previous dance experiences prior to this course.

Welcome to have fun and to learn some basics of couple salsa! 🙂

Mirka Saali’s Show Burlesque Workshop, open level

Time: the 3rd of April 2021 at 12:00–13:30 (duration: 90 min)

Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84, 20100 Turku

Sign up for the workshop by purchasing it online from our webshop.

Attention! If you want to pay the workshop with some sports or cultural benefits (Smartum, Edenred, ePass, Eazybreak), please sign up by sending an email to info@flama.fi.

Bring your own knee pads or leg warmers to the workshop to protect your knees.

Show Burlesque combines show dance and burlesque with its flirt and attractiveness. During the class, you can dance with your socks or ball pads. We do not recommend dance trainers for this class.

You can just wear your normal, comfortable clothes, but if you wish, you can also wear something related to the theme, such as fishnet tights.

Mirka Saali

Mirka teaches Show Burlesque, Latin Ladies Style and Reggaeton classes at Flama.

Mirka has a long history of different dance styles. She started dancing at the age of seven with ballroom dancing and continued until her teenage years. After that, she has tried various dance styles, such as Broadway, twerk, pole dance and different couple dances. However, Show Burlesque took her heart and gave a whole new meaning for dancing. None of Mirka’s classes is identical. Years of experience is reflected in insightful and skilled choreography that have been inspired by all the dance styles Mirka has danced.

As a teacher, Mirka is compelling and purposeful but still easy-going. There is always a cheerful atmosphere in the classes. It is important to Mirka that the joy of dancing is present in her teaching, as well as the enjoying of the music, own movements and the crossing of boundaries.

Mirka has been part of different dance groups. Earlier she was the choreographer and one of the dancers in the Show Burlesque dance group called glamGRLS’n’pantyHOES. Nowadays she does the same in Flama’s own Latin dance group, Flama Crew.

Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen will visit Flama on Saturday, April 10!

Schedule for the 10th of April 2021
12:00–13:15 Salsa Ladies Style, intermediate (75 min)
13.15–14:30 Bachata Ladies Style, intermediate (75 min)
14:45–16:00 Reggaeton, intermediate (75 min)

These classes are suitable for those who have previous dance experience.

Prices and registration:
1 workshop (75 min): 16 €

Register for the classes by purchasing them at our webshop:

• Salsa Ladies Style, intermediate 16 €
• Bachata Ladies Style, intermediate 16 €
• Reggaeton, intermediate 16 €

HANNA-MAIJA PÄÄKKÖNEN
Hanna-Maija Pääkkönen is a professional dancer who has specialized in Caribbean dances. She has a long dance education since she was 3 years old, featuring studies in classical ballet, lyrical jazz, contemporary dance, and show dance. She came in contact with Latin American dances already in her childhood when living in Nicaragua where she studied local folkloric dances.

During her high school years, she traveled to the Dominican Republic (1999-2000) to study merengue and bachata. After returning to Finland she studied Afro-Cuban dances with several Cuban professionals such as Ramon Silverio (Conjunto Folklórico Santiago de Cuba) and Chiqui Dixon (Conjunto Folklórico Nacional de Cuba) around Europe.

During her studies, she worked as a teacher trainee in Dance School Salsa de Cuba, where she later on also reached for several years. Hanna-Maija has worked as a full-time dance teacher since 2002. She continues to educate herself and makes several study trips every year to Latin America and Europe. She is known as an inspiring teacher, whose passion for dance is evident. Many of her former students now work as professionals. Her dance style is a mixture of soft feminine movements, a graceful quality of moves originating in her classical background, and explosive energy. Hanna-Maija specializes especially on Reggaeton, Ladies’ Style Salsa On1 and On2 and Cuban Rumba.

Salsa teachers Satu Annika and Roynet Perez will visit Flama on Saturday, the 17th of April 2021!

Schedule for Saturday,17.4.2021
– 12:00–13:15
hall 1: Salsa Ladies Style, intermediate (Satu)
hall 2: Salsa Men’s Style, intermediate (Roynet), 75 min
– 13:30–14:45 Cuban Couple Salsa, intermediate level, 75 min, (Satu & Roynet)
– 14:45–16:00 Cuban Couple Salsa, advanced level, 75 min, (Satu & Roynet)

Reserve your place for the workshops by purchasing those from our webshop:
– Salsa Ladies Style, intermediate level (Satu), 75 min, 16 €
– Salsa Men’s Style, intermediate level (Roynet), 75 min, 16 €
– Couple Salsa, intermediate level (Satu & Roynet), 75 min, 16 €
– Couple Salsa, advanced level (Satu & Roynet), 75 min, 16 €

Attention followers without their own partner! Before paying for the couple salsa workshops, please send us an email to info@flama.fi to check the number of places available. There are still places for leaders and pairs for our couple salsa workshops but unfortunately, no more places for followers registering without their own partner. However, you can put yourself as a follower in the queue by sending an email to info@flama.fi.

When purchasing the couple salsa workshops, please provide as an extra note in your order the name of your possible dance partner and whether you dance as a leader or a follower.

More information: info@flama.fi

On Saturday, the 24th of April 2021, we will dance salsa at Dance Studio Flama!

Salsa Ladies Style Workshop, intermediate level
Time: Sat, the 24th of April 2021 at 13.15–14.45 (90 min)
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84, 20100 Turku
Teacher: Anna Tolppa
Price: 17 €

Register for the workshop by purchasing it at our webshop.

Salsa Ladies Style class is all about impressive feminine body movements and musical interpretation. In addition to typical body movements and technique of Cuban salsa, the class concentrates for example on the use of hands and feminine impression, not forgetting show elements. Let yourself lose in all the sensuality!

During the Salsa Ladies Styling workshop, you can dance with dancing heels or other dance shoes. The class is meant for those who are already familiar with the basics of salsa solo.

Anna Tolppa
Anna is the founder of Dance Studio Flama and a dance teacher specialized in Caribbean dances. Anna fell in love with dancing early. She started with classical ballet at the age of five and continued her dance studies also with jazz and show dance in her childhood and adolescence.

Since 2010, she has concentrated on Caribbean dances, especially in Cuban Salsa. She trained to become a salsa instructor under the direction of a Cuban dance teacher, Ramón Silverio. Before opening her own dance studio, Anna has taught dance classes for example in Dance School Salsa de Cuba, CampusSport, ANNAsport, Naantali Adult Education Center, HaNi-Halli and various events.

Welcome to dance salsa with us!

Bachata Ladies Style workshop,
advanced beginners / intermediate level

Teacher: Anna Tolppa
Time: Sat 8.5.2021 at 12.00-13.30
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84
Price: 17 €

Register for the workshop bu purchasing it from our webshop.

More information: info@flama.fi

Beginners’ Couple Salsa Workshop
Instructed by Anna Tolppa

Would you like to learn to dance couple salsa? This intensive course starts from the very basics, so you do not need any prior knowledge about salsa dancing. Anna is always instructing in English, when there are people who do not speak Finnish. Start a new great hobby and come and have fun with us!

During the course, you will get familiar with the basic steps of couple salsa, and we will practice rhythmic, some simple figures as well as techniques of both leading and following.

Time: Sat, the 8th of May 2021, at 14:00-16:00 (2 hours)
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84
Price: 25 €/person
Teacher: Anna Tolppa

Register for the workshop by purchasing it from our webshop.

You can register for this course only if you have a dance partner to register with. If you would like to join the course and you don’t have your own partner, send us an email to info@flama.fi and we will try to find you a partner to dance with during the workshop. During this workshop, like in all other couple dance courses, we highly recommend to use face masks.

And yes, you don’t need to have had any previous dance experiences prior to this course.

Welcome to have fun and to learn some basics of couple salsa!

Salsa Ladies Style Project is a four-time-long cuban salsa ladies style intensive course, where we will practise one longer choreo. Participants of this course can perform the choreography at Flama´s afro-latin party on Saturday evening, on 5th of June 2021, and we will also film the choreo in the end of the course.

Trainings will take place on Dance Studio Flama (Linnankatu 84, Turku).

The course consists of four 75 minutes sessions, which will be held on Saturdays 15.5., 22.5., 29.5. and 5.6.2021 at 11:30–12:45.

The teacher of this course is Anna Tolppa.

The level is intermediate/advanced, so you should have previous salsa dancing experience.

Price: 50 € or Flama’s Spring Anytime Card

This workshop is already fully booked. You can sign up for the queue by sending an email to info@flama.fi.

Pauliina Latva’s New Heels Intensive Course for Beginners Starts in May 2021!

Time: On Saturdays from the 15th of May to the 5th of June 2021
at 15:00–16:30, 4 x 90 min class (the 15th of May, the 22nd of May, the 29th of May and the 5th of June)
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84, 20100 Turku
Price: 65 €

We go through heels technique right from the very basics. You do not need to have any previous experience in Heels classes. During the course, we will also learn a choreography that encourages us to put our souls into dancing. After this course, you will be able to walk and dance more confidently with heels and identify the basic elements of Heels technique.

Sign up for the course by purchasing it at our webshop.

If you want to pay with sport or cultural benefits (for example Smartum, E-Pass, Edenred, Eazybreak), sign up by sending an email to info@flama.fi.

Attention! If you are not able to attend the course, we will not refund you. In case of illness and a valid medical certificate of it, you can get a gift card to Flama with the value of money you paid for the course. You can use it for another course, workshops or weekly classes.

PAULIINA LATVA
Pauliina is a dancer and a dance teacher who will soon also graduate as a physiotherapist (The University of Applied Sciences). Pauliina has practised various dance styles, such as contemporary dance, show dance, hip hop, breakdance, acrobatics as well as salsa. Her strength is that she utilizes the techniques of different dance styles, regardless of the dance style in question. She spent her autumn 2016 in New York studying dance independently, in addition to which she has developed herself as a dancer through various courses and workshops both in Finland and abroad, for example in London, New York, and Los Angeles. Pauliina is also a Personal Trainer (TYA/South Africa).

As a teacher, Pauliina is inspiring and encouraging. Her dance classes are filled with versatile dance know-how and good feeling, and typically different dance styles are open-mindedly combined. Her classes teach you how to listen to the music and interpret it with your own body movements. “During my dance classes, I want to create an open and safe space where one can learn through experimentation and shared insights! My main job as a dance teacher is to motivate others to become interested in the versatility of their own bodies and the opportunities they create.”

More information about the workshops: info@flama.fi.

We will celebrate the beginning of the summer and end of Flama’s spring season on Saturday, the 5th of June 2021 from 8 pm to 1 am at Dance Studio Flama!

We will have two dance floors where salsa, bachata, reggaeton, kizomba and semba will be played late into the night. DJ Papi will play his best tunes and we will guarantee that we’re gonna have a fun time together!

We will have an amazing dance show where Flama´s dance groups will perform. The showtime is at 10 pm so come early!

The entrance fee is 10 €.

Tickets are already on sale on our webshop.

Remember to take your dance shoes or other indoor shoes with you because the shoes used outdoors will be left in the lobby.

Dance Studio Flama is located next to Turku Castle at Linnankatu 84. Bus Line 1 (Market Square–Turku Harbor) will stop just in front of Flama at the bus stop called Satamakatu and the bus trip from market square to the dance studio takes around 10 minutes. Check the bus schedule at http://www.foli.fi/ to choose the right time to come. If you decide to come by your own car, there are free parking spaces behind the dance studio and other parking options nearby, such as chargeable parking lots or ones requiring a parking disk.

Welcome to have fun and enjoy the best people, music and dances!

Flama’s Latin Saturday is a day full of amazing Latin rhythms! There are five different solo classes to choose from, so now you have the opportunity to come and try different dance styles and find your own favorite!

These workshops are especially meant for beginners, so you do not have to have any prior dance experience to attend the classes. The classes are held at Dance Studio Flama (Linnankatu 84, Turku) on Saturday, the 19th of June 2021.

The workshops are instructed by Flama’s dance teachers Anna Tolppa and Mirka Saali.

Schedule for the 19th of June 2021
(Attention! All the classes are solo classes, not couple classes)
11:30–12:30 Salsa – Anna
12:30–13:30 Bachata – Anna
13:30–14:30 Cha-cha – Mirka
14:30–15:30 Slow Rumba – Mirka
15:30–16:30 Reggaeton – Mirka

1 class: 12 €

Sign up for the workshops by purchasing them from our webshop:
– Salsa, Anna
– Bachata, Anna
– Cha-cha, Mirka
– Hidas rumba, Mirka
– Reggaeton, Mirka

If you want to pay the workshops with some sports or cultural benefits (Smartum, E-passi, Edenred), sign up by sending an email to : info@flama.fi.

You do not have to bring a receipt of your purchase when you come to the studio, just provide your name at the reception. If you buy workshos also for your friends, please provide their names as additional notes in the order.

ATTENTION! We do not refund you if you cancel and do not come to the workshop. In case of illness, we will give you a gift card to our studio instead.

More information and questions: info@flama.fi

We are already dreaming of a summer full of dancing! We will organize outdoor dance classes at the Turku Castle Park also this summer 2021.

The park classes will be held on Sundays from 6 to 7 pm.

We will have classes for the whole summer and the schedule for the classes will be published on May.

The price of one class is 7 euros and you can pay it by card, cash or for example with Smartum vouchers. We prefer payments with the card. You can also pay with Flama’s punch cards or Anytime cards.

Classes are held by Dance Studio Flama’s dance teachers.

The classes will be held if it is not raining. The location is on the harbour side of Turku Castle. Bus number 1 takes you just next to the castle.

Can’t wait for the summer and to dance with you all. ♥

More information: Dance Studio Flama, info@flama.fi

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Dance Studio Flama’s fourth anniversary will be celebrated at the incredible dance party on Saturday night, the 4th of September 2021, from 8.30 pm to 01 am.

There will be hottest Afro-Latin rhythms played throughout the night and there will be amazing dance performances as well. Showtime is at 10 pm.

The entrance fee is 10 €. You can purchase your ticket for this party in advance through our webshop.

Location: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84, 20100 Turku

There will be two dance floors upstairs. Remember to take your dance shoes or other indoor shoes with you because the shoes used outdoors will be left in the lobby.

More information about the event will be published later, but save the date already in your calendar and be prepared for the party of the year! Let’s celebrate life by dancing!

Couple Salsa Beginners’ Intensive Course – learn the basics of salsa dancing within a month!

Instructed by Anna Tolppa

Would you like to learn to dance couple salsa? This intensive course starts from the very basics, so you do not need any prior knowledge about salsa dancing. Anna is always instructing in English when there are people who don’t speak Finnish. Start a new great hobby and come and have fun with us!

During the course, you will get familiar with the basic steps of salsa and we will practice rhythmics, simple figures as well as techniques of both leading and following.

Time: Every Sunday in August 2021 at 19.15–20.30
Place: Dance Studio Flama, Linnankatu 84, Turku
Price: 68 € per person

Register for the course by purchasing it at our webshop.

ATTENTION! You can register for this course only if you have a dance partner to register with. If you would like to join the course and you don’t have your own partner, send us first an email to info@flama.fi and we will try to find you a partner to dance with during the workshop.

And yes, you don’t need to have had any previous dance experiences prior to this course.
Welcome to have fun and to learn some basics of couple salsa!