Kakes Studios

My husband and I were very disappointed with the overall experience. Eric Freeman is all about making a profit and clearly does not enjoy teaching salsa, nor is he a good teacher. We took our first two lessons in June, but we had a planned vacation for the rest of the month. I told Eric ahead of time that we would be out of town and would need to make up the last two lessons in July. He said it wouldn’t be a problem and emailed us to confirm that we would be finishing up our lessons in July. We showed up to class in July, but it was a nightmare. He glared at us when we walked in and refused to acknowledge us. When it was time to start practicing the moves, he walked around the room to check on people. We were very clearly struggling with one of the moves, but rather than help us out with our dance steps, Eric demanded to know who we were and look for our names on the «list» of payed customers. When he couldn’t find our names, he freaked out. I told him we were gone on vacation and reminded him that he had emailed us letting us know it was ok. He proceeded to tell me that I needed to show him the email and walked away. He ignored us the rest of the lesson. At the fourth and final lesson, I decided to be prepared because I did not want to feel like that again… like criminals… so I printed the email and took it with me to class. As soon as he arrived, I approached him with the email so we could straighten everything out. As I was trying to initiate a conversation with him, he kept interrupting me, saying, «Give me a minute. Give me a minute.» It was extremely rude. So I just put the email on the table and said, «Here’s the email you wanted. Please spend your time talking to us about our dance moves instead of emails today.» Do you think he watched us at all or coached us? NOPE! We are not the only ones he did this to. We saw him do the same thing to a few other people that had similar arrangements because they were on a vacation. To top it off, he is a horrible dance teacher. He made us practice the basic 1−2−3 move for the first 30 minutes of every class as a time filler, which is extremely boring and unnecessary after the first lesson. The second half of class would consist of him showing off some fancy moves and telling us to try it. A good dance teacher would teach the new moves, step by step. People got so frustrated and confused that they were making up their own moves! One last thing. The dance studio is about 100 degrees with no air flow and wall-​to-​wall people, so it feels like you are going to pass out from heat exhaustion at any moment. If all of that sounds like a fun experience to you, sign up with Salsaville for lessons with Eric Freeman!

Beginning salsa classes are good for people who have never done salsa. Best to have a partner since everyone else was partnered up. The pace is slow and repetitive for people that have a hard time picking it up.

Great studio. They have different dance classes every night of the week.
Tuesday nights Salsaville/​Eric does Salsa lessons. check out
for more info.
I highly recommend them, you won’t find any better in Boulder.
The entrance is very hard to find at first. What you do is go behind the futon/​furniture building to where you would assume the loading zone would be and you’ll see the sign and doors.