Welcome to the Salsa With Juan Family!

CELEBRATING 20 YEARS IN THE BAY AREA!

Thank you for being a part of Salsa With Juan.

A Letter To My Dance Family… That Means You!

Familiiiaaaa!

Another year has come and gone at Salsa with Juan!  We met new family members, and reconnected with others! To all I say, THANK YOU!

You have made and continue to make Salsa with Juan a very special place!

Now, the time has come for Salsa with Juan to make a grateful, graceful, teary eyed exit, with sadness, tears, and visions of what the new year and new future holds for us all.

It has been my pleasure to introduce many people to the Juanderful world of dancing, and to have added all of you as another piece of the puzzle that is my heart!

What does Juans' future hold? The truth is I don't know... Not yet anyway, but, know that I am forever grateful and I plan to continue sharing my love of dance, family, community, and yes, even dad jokes to the world.

Will this be in California? The sad answer is no.

I fear for my family, my friends, and of course myself. Safety is sadly hard to find here and it has taken a toll on my friends and I, mentally, and, emotionally.

Having said that, I have not yet chosen my next place of residence. It's up in the air at the moment, I don't know the answers, but, I will find them, as I have always done!

I would like to thank Jan Fong of Trilliant Studios, for all of her contributions, knowledge, help, and dedication to Salsa with Juan. Growing our businesses together and helping each other at Trilliant Studios, we have learned, grown, cried, laughed, and, smiled! This brings me to a new quote I like, "Alone we go fast, together we go far"!

To our wonderful community of helpers who honestly could be teachers if the chose, Nick, Valerie, Darcie, Carlanne, Sergio, Kenny, Gracie, Steve, Moe, and many others who have helped Salsa with Juan be the special place that it is. I can never thank you enough, nor can I replace the love and laughter we created often, as I dry my tears at the risk of being redundant, again, THANK YOU!

Dancing?  For the next few months, we are going to make the Salsa with Juan Oakland YouTube channel available for you to either entertain yourself, learn, reminisce, or just have a laugh and enjoy. 

We will put up more videos so we can dance together even when we are not together, as I believe we are all linked, and, thanks to the wonders of technology, we will continue to be so.

For now, I want to wish us all, a safe, happy, healthy, and exciting holiday season. May peace rein in our hearts, in our world, and may dancing continue to bring us all together, and may the world learn from that and follow us to the rhythm of 1234,5678, Cross Body Lead, into happiness and Love.

For now, know that I love you, Juan and all, and remember that eggs are the funniest food in the world, they come with a yoke inside! Juan Gil, and Salsa with Juan!