Al “Liquid Silver” Espinoza combines salsa with his 20 years of pop locking, break dancing and hip hop to create what is known today as millenium salsa (read below Al’s philosophy on Salsa). Al has been teaching and performing in more than 40 countries all over the world and can now be seen teaching and performing with his new talented partner and wife Karla Fiorella Palomino Espinoza. In their classes they will demonstrate what to do if you are off beat, what to do when the woman is turning, cross body lead and open break styling as well as special partnering techniques.

This is what Al says about his Millenium Style:

“Millenium Style means abandoning the 1, dancing on your 1-2-3, and your 5-6-7. When you learn you should learn your basics, stepping forward, stepping backward, and learning the right steps, but after you get comfortable and you get to know where those are, then you can be honest on your 1 or 2, whatever you’re dancing on, and you can dance the rest of it while just being honest on 1. Honest means, in other words, if you’re dancing on 1, it doesn’t matter what you do in between or after as long as you come back to 1. You just want to keep a consistency on beat. I mean, everybody falls off the beat, just come back to your timing. So it gives the girls some kind of consistency to rely on. When you’re dancing, you’re incorporating a lot of boogaloos and use a lot of body waves. When you take the basic steps, then you’re allowed to incorporate your hip-hop, your jazz or your ballet, and your tango. This just opens the door for more people who have a tango background or a jazz background. You should not abandon the pure salsa because that’s the whole root of this all. But I think you should mix a little bit. Let’s just spice it up a little bit. I would say do half and half. Half salsa with half locking, half tango, half jazz, whatever. But don’t abandon the salsa period because salsa was a dance created for man and woman, it keeps that alive, and you know it’s a passionate dance.”