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. 
We are happy to announce our first online dance contest! Submit the best video, and you could win a $150 VISA gift card & merchandise from SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE!
SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE: 2 Hour Premiere Thursday May 22 - 8/7c on FOX!
In celebration of the fourth season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE and Addicted2Salsa is giving you the chance to win a VISA Gift Card & merchandise from the show!
The summer hit SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, keeps viewers moving to a different beat as dancers skilled in everything from the “street” styles of Hip-Hop, Krumping and Popping to Ballroom’s Salsa, Quickstep and Jive compete to be named the nation’s favorite. Now, Addicted2Salsa in association with SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE are hosting a contest for the best salsa combination.
How to enter:
1. Make a video of yourself doing a salsa dance pattern- be CREATIVE! (other dance styles may be incorporated)
2. Upload the video to YouTube and submit the YouTube URL on our contest page or by clicking ‘Enter Contest‘ below.: as many video entries as you wish between May 5th and May 19th.
3. Addicted2Salsa staff will choose the top 10 videos, which will be posted on our website. Then it’s your turn to choose the #1 video by casting your vote online!
4. PRIZES:
1st place- $150 VISA gift card and SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE merchandise
2nd place- $20 iTunes gift card (provided by addicted2salsa)
3rd place- $10 iTunes gift card (provided by addicted2salsa)
This contest will be a fun way for members of the salsa community to share their passion with one another, get excited for the upcoming season of SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE, and the winner will take home a $150 VISA gift card plus merchandise from the show. We are excited to see all of your entries!
If you are ready, you can submit your video right now! Click the link below.
Contest Rules : Terms and Conditions
In salsa dancing, there is more than meets the eye. There are a lot of simple hand-tricks that help you perform a simple move, but still make it complicated to the average viewer.
Here is just a simple step (mainly for beginners) on how to perform the basic hand juggle at the night club. For best effect, make sure you add separation of the hands, and practice it making it fast but smooth.
Last, but not least - the third version of the ’salsa track’ that I made with Garageband is with a Flute Solo. Using a flute as the main part of the melody is common, but it is usually not heard of enough.
If you missed the first two salsa track solos, you can find the trumpet one here and the violin one here.
I’m sure there are many of you musicians out there that can do a much better job than I can - and we’d like to hear from you. If you can create an instrumental latin tracks, whether it be salsa, cha-cha or bachata, and would like to share that with the community - send it our way and we’ll post it up with a link to your site/profile. Who knows, it could start your record career.
This is the second version of the simple salsa track that I posted earlier. This time, I chose to go with a more ‘Salsa Celtica‘ kind of sound with a Violin salsa solo. I also used the Cajon as the background drum beat (instead of the regular Cowbell and Congas).
Your feedback is always welcomed! Feel free to use download and distribute, I have placed the track on a Creative Commons license.
PS. I love Garageband!
After you get a Mac, a lot of fun things happen. I decided to put my compusic (computer+music) skills to some more good use an make a few interesting Salsa tracks with a program called GarageBand. While I was at it, I made three different versions of this salsa dance soundtrack. Here is the first one: an interesting salsa trumpet solo with some mixed in jazzy piano, cowbell and congas. Let me know what you think and of course - enjoy!
I welcome your comments and feel free to download, distribute and use the file freely - I provide it as part of a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License.
[Download Here]
Well, after getting great feedback from all of you, here it is - a more complicated salsa pattern. It is a very long pattern, so take it in strides and small bites. We have named the individual moves to help you piece the entire salsa combination together. Now, because it is Valentine’s Day (soon) - you can have something to practice with that special someone .Enjoy and if you have questions, please ask it at our forums http://www.addicted2salsa.com/forums/ !
The song used in the episode is “Philadelphia Mambo” by Los Gatos (originally by Tito Puente)
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