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.

In July 2000 Lee was introduced to Salsa. After one evening he was hooked.

Lee setup Salsa classes in Chesterfield in September 2000, making Absolute Salsa the first company to teach salsa in Chesterfield, since then many other teachers have followed. Absolute Salsa’s flag ship class was at the Winding Wheel, 21 people attended the first week, 84 people attended the second week the rest is history, classes moved to the Miners Welfare Club soon after due to lack of space, classes have remained there since .Lee setup salsa classes in Derby in the October 2000, after various venue changes they settled at the Polish Club in 2005 on a Wednesday. January 2008 saw Salsa classes start at Rollerworld Derby. Without doubt these classes became the busiest in the UK, one the biggest venues in the UK with a capacity of holding over 400 dancers at any one time during a lesson and still space to dance.

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.