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Monthly Archive for December, 2005

Dave Santiago and Latin Affair New Years Eve Party!

Dave Santiago and Latin AffairWell, I went to Hotel Fort Des Moines and some very interesting people - specifically the manager of a new year event in Cedar Rapids. They were handing out CDs for Dave Santiago and Latin Affair - and they sound very good.

New year’s Eve with Dave Santiago & Latin Affair
December 31, 2005 9:00pmj - 2:00am
Alejandro’s Restaurant
616 2nd Ave. SE, Downtown Cedar Rapids, IA

Dave Santiago and Latin Affair is a New York City based salsa / son band whose primary focus is on performing original salsa as well as traditional afro-cuban/ Puerto Rican and Caribbean dance music. Dave and the band have shared the stage with notable artists such as, El 120x60 Animated BannerGran Combo de Puerto Rico. So come join Dave Santiago New Years Eve at Alejandro’s Restaurant!

For Ticket Info: Henry @ 319-651-7371 or Sergio @ 515-213-5012

Doors Open at 5pm, Show starts at 9pm - 2am.Download Episode

The provided audio samples on the event CDs they handed out, so to get you excited to going to this event, I have uploaded them so you can listen to them!

(2)TV : Another Chicago Salsa Congress Combo

Well, the folks at IndySalsa.com (Marques) were cool enough to provide more salsa videoclips from the Chicago Salsa Congress 2005. This salsa combo is from “Gordon Neil & Laura Geldys’ Workshop”. Actually, its pretty interesting because I was in that exact same workshop last year (and you can see me in the video). It is funny how I just noticed myself in other people’s video clips. (If you are wondering, I’m the guy on the right, black shirt, in the ‘rectangular’ white box).

Hope you enjoy this video clip - hope this keeps hyping you up for congress!

(2)TV : Salsa Clip from Chicago Salsa Congress 2005

Since the Chicago Salsa Congress 2006 is coming up, I decided to share this video clip that I found from last years salsa congress. This clip is brought to you buy IndySalsa.com. The salsa video clip is titled “Juan Calderon’s Workshop - On1″, which was a very slick combo he taught us that day. For more on Juan Calderon, you can go to his website at: www.culturalexplosion.com. He’s an awesome performer, and teacher (explains things cleary and is patient).

Anyway, instead of taping a video, I decided to aggregate some video clips freely available on the internet so you don’t have to. Enojy the video clip. Remember any comments, concerns or suggestions, please contact us at www.addicted2salsa.com.

Salsa Dance 4: Slick Salsa Dance Pattern

I would like to provide credit where credit is due. I reverse-engineered this move on a video I saw of some really good dancers dancing at a club! (Sorry, don’t know their names, but they were good)! Anyway, this is a tight combo that can be linked together with other combinations you might know. Of course, like every episode we add some styling so you can get started!

Intro to Salsa Dancing 3: Easy Salsa Dance Moves

Again, we are only getting to learn how to use FinalCut Pro for video editing, so please bear with us on our video quality — but here is our first published dance combo. It is basically putting right turns and crossbody leads with styling. You can do it over and over again so you can practice those two fundamentals!

Learn to Dance Salsa : Basic CrossBody Lead and Some Dance Styling

This episode will teach everyone the basic crossbody lead in salsa dancing. For most of you, this will be a very essential move to pull-off some of the other complicated combinations. In addition, we add some styling techniques to make your crossbody leads better for both MEN and WOMEN!.

How to Dance Salsa : Basic Dance Step Video

Here is the free dance video that will help you get started with the salsa dance basic step. This episode will review the basic steps of the salsa (front-back) step On1. We also teach you how to perform a simple right turn, and for the guys, how to lead a right turn when in open position. Hopefully this will get you started dancing salsa!