If you were interested in finding out about the results and dance performances that took place in December in regards to the 2009 Salsa World Championships, look no further. The great folks at ilivesalsa have made a good compilation page of all the salsa performance videos of the event so that you can watch them at your leisure.
As a summary, here are the results from the Salsa Championship website:
Winner On1 Division: Liz Lira and Christian Oviedo from Los Angeles, CA
Winner On2 Division: Anya Katsevman and Luis Aguilar from New York, NY
Winner Cabaret Division: Jenny Rodriguez and Jonathan Landa from Cali, Colombia.
Winner Team Division: Ritmo y Sabor from Oaxaca, Mexico.
Congratulations to all the salsa dancers that participated. You are all amazing dancers!
If you have been following our Addicted2Salsa Fan page, you know that we are giving away TWO free event tickets to two lucky winners for the San Diego Salsa Jam that is happening on April 10th, 2009 hosted by A Time to Dance and the San Diego Salsa Festival.
Winning is as simple as answering three easy salsa questions. The first two people to post the answers our fan page on Facebook will win a ticket to the special event!
Questions:
What is the name of the salsa musician who founded “El Gran Combo de Puerto Rico”?
What is the actual birth name of the salsa artist known as “El Rey Del Timbal”?
What was original release date of the album “Fuego En El 23″ by Sonora Ponceña?
Remember, post your answers on our fan page in the comments thread! Good luck!
VOTING IS NOW OPEN to all Addicted2Salsa visitors and will continue until May 25th, 2008 11:59pm PST!
We are very happy to have received a lot of great entries. The videos are posted, and YOU get to cast the final vote! Just click on the contest link, or go to http://addicted2salsa.com/contests . You can view all the videos before making your vote.
Good Luck to everyone!
Here are the contestants in alphabetical order:
Achilles & Milagro (Al Asad, Iraq)
Daniel (Atlanta, GA)
Marisa Castillo & Oliver “Ollie” Tan (San Francisco, CA)
Club Mayan results are in! Though they are not posted on the Mayan website yet, the Jamaican Salsero Blog has posted the information along with a review of the competition from the competitor’s perspective. The 13th Annual Mayan World Salsa Competition took place over the last two weeks, with professional finals this past Saturday.
The winners were David Nieto and Charlene Rose, followed by Raul Santiago and Sergia Anderson in 2nd place, and Christian Oviedo and Diana Sanchez in 3rd. Other well known dancers that didn’t make it to the top include Liz Lira with Luis Aguilar, who came in 4th place, and Isidro Corona and Sheila Zepeda (Bay area favorites), who have done quite well in Albert Torres’ World Salsa Championships.
Some have criticized the Mayan Competition, claiming that this once revered contest that determined the true greats has since been corrupted and is even being replaced by the World Salsa Championships (Albert Torres Productions). The main complaint is that the Mayan is “an LA competition“, meaning that in order to win, one must be from Los Angeles. This is evidenced by the fact that the International category is defined as “outside of California” (though even in the International warm-up dance, some of the internationals hailed from as far as San Francisco- see more info on the video below).
Despite criticisms, many of the best On1 dancers still compete in this competition every year. This year, there were some surprises. Couples like Isidro and Sheila, who won the semifinal round in the world championships, only placed 9th in the Mayan competition. The winners of the Mayan competition, David and Charlene, placed 4th in the semi-finals and 3rd in the finals of the world competition. Some of the discrepancies are no doubt due to differences between individual performances, but it is interesting to compare the two competitions. The results of the 2007 World Salsa Championships are below; you can judge for yourself once the Mayan videos are posted.
Details of placing aside, the quality of dancing is exceptional in this competition. Check out the Mayan website to watch the semifinal rounds videos in both pro and am categories.
Final Results On 1
1. Abel Peña y Zulmara Torres (Mexico y Los Angeles)
2. Roberto Areans y Marie Josee Strazero (Canadá)
3. David Nieto y Charlene Rose (Ecuador/USA)
We have been getting a lot of questions about our first video dance contest. You have until May 19th, 2008 11:59pm (PACIFIC STANDARD TIME) to submit your video. (Due to time-zones, international contestants have more time to submit). Please remember to keep your video between 20-45 secondsless than 30 seconds in length (a few seconds over is ok – we do not want to hinder creativity, but please no 2+ minute videos for example). Voting will start on May 20th, 2008 (PST). Good Luck!
[Updated] Contest rules state not to exceed 30 seconds. This is highly preferred, however a few seconds over is ok.
If you haven’t yet found out – we are hosting our first contest ever on the website in partnership with FOX and So You Think You Can Dance! You only have a few days left to submit your video. Remember, it just has to be a quick video with a dance pattern that you think people will like! You don’t need a fancy camera and you don’t need to explain the move. It’s that simple! It is something you can do at the end of a salsa dance class! Salsa, Cha Cha, Merengue, Salsaton.. anything goes. [Instructions]
In a salsa galaxy, far, far away… let’s just call it Iowa.
To show you an example of a quick video you could take, I have dug up one of the many videos from the very old ‘Salsa History Archives’ of Salsa Anthony version 1.0. This is a video of when I first started to learn how to dance in Ames, IA in a Salsa dance club I started with a few friends called ‘Descarga Latin Dance‘. While I will let you laugh at my XL-clothing attire and ‘boots for dance shoes’ – I hope it shows everyone that with hard work, you can grow your dancing abilities little by little: ANYONE CAN DANCE SALSA. We all go through the same growing pains. Hopefully this serves as inspiration to a few of you out there.
I expect a few funny commentaries or captions below.
If you were interested in finding out about the results and dance performances that took place in December in regards to the 2009 Salsa World Championships, look no further. The great folks at ilivesalsa have made a good compilation page of all the salsa performance videos of the event so that you can watch them at your leisure.
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