The Empowered Dancers Podcast

The Empowered Dancers Podcast

A Salsa Bachata and Kizomba Podcast for all things empowerment in SBK latin dancing! TED Podcast is a space for different voices in our dance scene to be celebrated and have conversations that matter in order to promote more understanding, accountability and responsibility in our dance scene through the value we share with listeners. Creating safer spaces, building confidence, setting boundaries, respecting culture, whether you dance salsa, bachata, kizomba or all three, on this podcast we hear from dancers with all sorts of backgrounds and interests - teachers, organisers, DJs and social dancers alike - every dancer has a story to tell, be it through events, lessons, teaching, organising, socials, friendships, dating, support, abuse, power. Whether you have been dancing for 20 minutes or 20 years, we all deserve to dance on our own terms, and shine our own light.

Recent Episodes

May 21, 2025

Is Role Rotation a tool towards safer spaces? with Felipe and Tiago

A dance lesson with two equal teachers. A mindset that expects respect and rejects stereotypes. A dance floor where sexualisation and objectification aren’t entertained. There are teachers and spaces that are working hard to ...
May 13, 2025

TED 38 | Are you willing to risk leaving dangerous people on the dance floor? with Jason Potell

How do you protect dancers across the SBK scene? You take their safety into account when planning your event. You talk about safety at your event. You give people knowledge about how to keep themselves safe. You take their ex...
April 14, 2025

TED 37 | Why didn’t she report it to the police? with Rikki Archibald

“Why didn’t she report it to the police?” “This is not my problem, this belongs with the police.” We are hearing these comments in the salsa, bachata and kizomba spaces, where people are speaking from a point of little unders...
March 31, 2025

TED 36 | Male privilege and an insight into threats in the SBK scene with Cameron Holden

Raised to be aware of your privilege as a man in the SBK scene is not something many men can reflectively say. Cameron Holden gives us a look at the salsa, bachata and kizomba scene through a self-aware lens - the male privi...
March 12, 2025

TED 35 | What snap judgements are you making about other dancers? with Natalie Walls

Fuelled by the rise of social media, bachata has developed a very “cookie cutter” image. Hollywood slim, skin and sparkle is the heteronormative assumed default image of our teachers. But that isn’t representative of our comm...
Feb. 25, 2025

TED 34 What are 2 key ways we can improve how lessons are taught? with Thomas Martin

Do salsa and bachata lessons serve dancers as well as they could? What core could we make to improve things? Thomas Martin is a teacher based in Manchester who share with us two brilliant areas he would see improve across the...