Instructors
Salsa Dance Academy started its classes in Nepal back on 2004. Back then, Mr. Binayek Das Shrestha started himself teaching six people. Since then, slowly he start adding up instructors for Salsa, Bollywood, Kathak and many more dance form instructor. Making Salsa Dance Academy team one of the best qualified & well experienced team of instructors.
Here’s details on the current Instructors of Salsa Dance Academy (SalsaNepal)
Binayek Das Shrestha
Head Instructor / Founder
THE pioneer of SALSA DANCE in NEPAL. Work at HBC94fm for 6 years as a program producer / RJ. He did his training on Salsa/Cha Cha/Merengue/Swing/Rumba here in NEPAL with a German man Name: Andreas Lehrke (1999)” Mr. Lehrke was the first person to get Latin dance in Nepal; on 2001 Mr. Shrestha did his intermediate training in Spain.
He has been teaching salsa since 2004. Teaching salsa it’s been 20 years and dancing salsa more than 25 years now.
He’s the first Nepali Salsa instructor to teach salsa in Nepal on his own. From the day he started teaching to these days he has already managed to teach more than 9000 people. He has also represented NEPAL at International Arenas like: India Salsa Congress 2008, Bangkok Salsa Festival 2008, Berlin Salsa Congress 2009, Salsa Vacation with Stars 2009, International India Salsa Congress 2010 and recently at Berlin Salsa Congress 2011.
Mr. Shrestha is also Certified DJ from Microfusa School of Sound Barcelona, Spain.
Salsa Dance Academy with its slogan “Feel the Chemistry, Express the passion” which denotes on how much you feel for what you do and the chemistry you built with your friends or partner when you dance, life is full of passion for individual want and likes, if you are into dance – more you express the passion you have for your dance better it looks and you yourself will enjoy a lot.
DR. CARLOS ALBA PEINADO
Academic Director for Spanish Language Program at Salsa Dance Academy
Professor of Spanish Language & Literature
Ph.D. in Spanish Literatura (Alcala University, Spain)
Master of Teaching Spanish as a Foreign Language (Nebrija University, Spain)
Worked at Bishwo Bhasa (Tribhuvan University, Nepal 2000-2002), Lincoln School (Kathmandu 2001-2002), Alcala University (Spain 2005-2006), Instituto Politécnico de Leiria (Portugal 2006-2009), Tufts University & Skidmore College (Madrid, Spain 2009-2012), Teacher Training Regional Center (Toledo, Spain 2013-2014), Carmen Burgos de Seguí College (Alovera, Spain 2014-), National Distance Education University (Spain 2010-).
Director of Doctoral Theses on Theatre and member of Editorial Board of Teatro, A Journal of Cultural Studies.
Author of research academic articles, editions, prefaces, reviews.
Spanish Conversation & Basic Words (Ramesh Shrestha & Bijay Kumar Rauniyar), Kathmandu: Ratna Pustak Bhandar, 2002. ISBN: 978-99-9330-343-5 [Last edition: 2007, ISBN: 978-9993303437]
Ángel Facio y Los Goliardos. Teatro Independiente en España (1964-1974), Universidad de Alcalá, 2005. ISBN: 978-84-8138-645-6
La censura del teatro republicano de Pedro Muñoz Seca, Madrid: Ateneo de Madrid, 2009. (160 págs.) ISBN: 978-84-936415-4-2
(Ed.) Bulu Sharma, Las gafas de Bulu. Autobiografía de una mujer brahmín por el laberinto del mandala, (Translated by Mukta Shrestha), Kathmandu, 2009. ISBN 978-9937-2-1341-7
Mrs. Mukta Shrestha
Spanish Teacher
25 years as certified Spanish interpreter. Mukta has collaborated for years with Nepalese Honorary Consulate in Barcelona and other social organizations as Amics del Nepal or Nepal Aki. She has traveled all around Spain from Santiago de Compostela to Cádiz and from Extremadura to Valencia. She knows deeply the special character and differences of Spanish communities. She has tested pulpo in Finisterra, fabes in Gijón, atún in Bilbao, churros in Madrid, calçots in Girona, paella en Valencia, salmorejo en Córdoba, papas arrugás en Tenerife, pescaíto frito en Puerto de Santa María.
Mukta founded Cervantes Library in Nepal in 2001 after organizing “Nepal 2001 d.C./2057 B.s. La Odisea de Buda” that was in Barcelona and Madrid. She has translated into Spanish the great Nepali autobiography of Bulu Sharma Chuteka paila -Las gafas de Bulu- that was presented in Leiria (Portugal) and Vic in 2009. She has translated also the script of Nepali film In search of Riyal directed by Kesang Tseten in 2010.
Mukta teaches Spanish in Salsa Dance Academy with her own method -Lali Guras A1a, A1b, A2a, A2b- supervised by Dr. Carlos Alba. Lali Guras is conceived to teach Spanish in a friendly and culture Nepali environmen2