Community Rueda Portsmouth is a dedicated Rueda group formed from local Cuban dance communities in Portsmouth and the surrounding area. The community project is ‘led’ by a a few people and runs as a not for profit. We have on average 8-12 attend every week and are always looking to welcome new but experienced Cuban salsa dancers into the community.

Each week we have a 2 hour open session with semi structured workshop for the first hour, followed by more social Ruedas and calling practice/games.

The Serpiente series of moves links into our open sessions where we test new ideas and concepts. What will Serpiente 3.0 bring to RuedX 2026?!

We are a small group of committed Rueda lovers, we have a lot of fun and enjoy welcoming new people to join us. The group is run by Olga Taylor who started teaching Rueda when her teacher decided to stop teaching Rueda and handed over the baton. We enjoy tweaking regular moves which then make them special to our group

Rueda community group set up a few years ago to share Rueda moves and have fun. We have 2 groups Open Level and an Advanced Level. We love the chaos of Rueda and happy to call a Rueda anywhere !!

Rueda Rosa Blanca has been going now since August 2023, so nearly two and a half years. Some of our group went to the same casino classes and were part a burgeoning demo/performance group in Leeds. 

When the classes sadly closed in Leeds, a few of us felt a huge chasm had been left in our rueda de casino lives as there was nothing rueda-wise going on in our area. 

This is when we decided to continue the demo group on our own and we've now done several demos for local W.I. groups and have more in the calendar for 2026. 

We don’t do this for profit as any fees we get go towards the hire of studios for our practice sessions. 

We don’t run classes as a group either, as all our members, (who now amount to around 18), and are already fairly experienced salseros, join by invitation.

We hope to build and improve on our experience and to hopefully increase awareness of our dance genre in the local community and share the joy we get from Cuban Salsa and Rueda. 

As we're a relatively small group at the moment (numbering 18, but probably 8 to 10 regularly active members), we sometimes only number 4 or 6 at practice sessions. Consequently we've developed a liking particularly for dos parejas and practice it quite a lot! 😁 

We don't have a leader of the group as such. We tend to share responsibility for social media, booking studios, practice times etc. and we wanted the group to be independent of any one particular person. Therefore we're trying to encourage everyone in the group to call ruedas. We haven't quite got there yet, but we're working on it! 

It's great for us to be able to come to RuedX as it gives us a chance to practice more complex structures. You just can't do that with 4 or 6 people, although we do occasionally collaborate with other groups. 

We love our little group and whenever we get together, wherever it is and however many people are there, there's one thing we're always sure of - and that's that we'll have loads of fun and a really good laugh!