Folks as some of you will be aware, In 2007 Lee won Best Uk Salsa Teacher at the Salsa UK Congress the biggest event in the UK, taking the title from one of the biggest salsa teacher in the world today !! Lee has been nominated again this year by another organisation and with your help lets see if Lee can take another title for 2009-2010. The catagories are slightly different, but we have posted a suggestion below to help you out.

Best UK Salsa Teacher/Instructor

Vote for your favourite UK Salsa Teacher, teaching couple, or group for 2009 (You can vote for up to 3)

Your 1st Nomination: Lee Hunter 

Best Regional UK Salsa Teacher/Instructor
Vote for your favourite local UK Salsa Teacher, teaching couple, or group for 2009.

Your Nomination: Lee Hunter

Best UK Salsa Special Event
Vote for your favourite 'Special' Salsa event during 2009 (This includes all-dayers, all-nighters, and one-off balls and parties).

Your Nomination: Rollerworld or Cube

Best UK Salsa Clubnight
Vote for your favourite regular Salsa party night (Any event that runs at least every 3 months can be considered a regular event).

Your Nomination: Absolute Salsa @ the Cube

Best UK Salsa Live Act/Performance in 2009
Vote for your favourite live act that performed in the UK during 2009.

Nominees

Alex Wilson (Assembly Rooms, Derby) 2009

HOW TO VOTE

To vote, please send your nomination(s) by email to;

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• You can vote for as many, or as few, of the categories as you like (If you only want to vote for your favourite Salsa teacher, that's fine)
• To make things easier, you can just copy the below awards categories text into the body of your email and add your nominations to the relevant parts.
• All entries must be from a unique and valid email address, and we will be undertaking certain checks to ensure the validity of entries.
• Artists and Promoters may canvas for votes.
• Voting closes on Friday 12th February, with the results announced a week later on Friday 19th.

Our January courses are now well under way. Any body wishing to join our very busy classes are advised now to join our April intake, as anybody wishing to start now will have missed too much to catch up with . Please check back here middle of March to get an exact start date to the April Course Start Dates. Thank you.

New Courses will be running at Rollerworld on Mondays as from April.

HELP I've missed the first two weeks of the course!!!!!!!!

Don't worry if you missed the first weeks, we are still allowing people to join our very popular classes upto and including week commencing 25th January . We run through the basic for the three weeks of the courses. If you join after this time we take you in to our paddling pool, where one of our very friendly members of staff will take you into our learner area and go through the basics with you. We will try to cover the essentials which you may have missed so that you will be able to join the main beginners class the week after.

Now relax, you are joining the most popular classes in the Midlands and probably the entire world !!!!

Absolute Salsa is owned and operated by Lee Hunter. Lee's career started at the age of eleven doing all types of dance including, Disco, Latin and Ballroom. At the age of fifteen he was ranked 2nd in the world as Junior (under 16) for Latin American. At eighteen, he was approached to move to Holland to compete again and to teach in one of the largest dance studios in Holland with over 1800 students.

Reaching 2nd place in the National Dutch Championships Latin American discipline and 3rd place in the Ballroom discipline Lee was given the opportunity to represent Holland in the World championships, achieving a world ranking of 28th. After travelling as far a field as Eastern Russia, Denmark, Austria, Germany, France and Belgium, including appearances on Come Dancing and Dutch National TV, Lee returned to England in 1996 to continue to teach Ballroom and Latin.

Absolute Salsa also runs Social events, with a combination of a quality venues, excellent DJ's and top teachers these are currently being held at Rollerworld and Derby Dance, these evenings have been said to be the best in the social calendar, definitely not to be missed, more information can be found via our website. Click here to see our Salsa events in Derby

Lee can be seen teaching all over the UK and Europe, his teaching style is relaxed and humorous; it's this approach that won him the accolade of UK's Top Salsa Teacher award 2007/2008. Lee's classes are split into 70% enjoyment and 30% learning. Click here to see Lee's diary

Our aim is to offer the friendliest and most fun nights in the area to feed your salsa addiction. Salsa dancing has become one the most popular pass times in the world today. Come down to an Absolute Salsa night and see for yourselves why?