JoCardio Ballroom Classes

Our regular class schedule is now at 9:30am AND 10:30am on Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

No partners needed!! This unique fitness class uses
ballroom technique that is completely partner free.

Holiday Schedule: Holiday Schedule - Class as scheduled through December 22nd Saturday Class Fri Dec 28th Class Sat Dec 29th Off until January 7th 2008 Monday

Dish Of Salt: Cardio Ballroom 'Dancing'
Laura Saltman makes her way to "Cardio Ballroom," a fitness class created and taught by former "Dancing With the Stars" partners Lisa Rinna and Louis Van Amstel. The class combines aerobics with dancing moves such as the cha cha and tango

 
Lisa and Louis on ET- Nov. 22

Former “Dancing With the Stars” dancer Louis Van Amstel, center, leads a class at
Anisa's School of Dance in Sherman Oaks.
(Stephen Osman, Los Angeles Times) -
October 29, 2007

A class titled cardio ballroom, taught by former "Dancing With the Stars" dancer Louis Van Amstel, offers especially intense dance workouts. Van Amstel and actress Lisa Rinna, his dance partner on the show, came up with the concept -- it's structured like an aerobics class, no partners needed. Van Amstel leads this high-energy, hourlong workout at Anisa's School of Dance in Sherman Oaks. It begins with a warm-up, then segues into basic salsa, cha-cha and jive steps, progressively adding variations, all to speaker-busting levels of Mariah Carey, Cher, Gwen Stefani and ABBA.

"We realized that ballroom works on a fitness level," Van Amstel says after a recent class, his shirt and pants soaked with sweat. "It's the best way to make people lose weight because you're not really here for a fitness class, you're here to dance."

The class also satisfies dancing jones for people who can't or don't want to get a partner with whom to salsa the night away.

Van Amstel, who recently released a set of dance DVDs, says he eventually wants to have a studio and teach ballroom and other dance forms.

In the meantime, in the few weeks they've been running, the cardio ballroom classes are still growing, he says. "We're trying to bring back fitness through enjoying life."

During the course of the cardio ballroom class, expressions change from furrowed brows to ear-to-ear grins as steps are mastered and inhibitions disappear. Vanessa Foster of Beverly Hills calls it one of the best workouts she's had -- and she has a trainer three times a week. "That never comes close to this," she says. read the LA Times article

We do have a information line now that will give general information
as well as any class cancellations.

818-789-3003

Please note that if you have purchased a series of classes that we will have an updated list to let you know when it is time to renew.

Thank you for your support of Lisa & Louis' Cardio Ballroom Dance Class and we'll see you there!

...more classes to come

call 818-789-3003
for more infotel

No partners needed!! This unique fitness class uses
ballroom technique that is completely partner free.