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!
Get ready for a rant before you continue. Last night on So You Think You Can Dance, we were treated to the new salsa dance choreographer on the show, Gustavo Vargas (a.k.a Alex Da Silva’s replacement). The performance was a train wreck (see video below). While I think Mollee and Nathan are amazing dancers, I was extremely disappointed with their performance last night. However, I do not think it is all their fault, and some of it lies in the choreography…
No matter which political group you may affiliate yourself with, you have to give major ‘props’ to our President for being able to get down with some Latin music, dancing and partying. He will probably be one of the most rhythmically skilled Presidents we’ve had in forever. Make sure you watch the second video: you can see Marc Anthony dance with Jennifer Lopez, the President dancing with his daugther and later, his daugther playing the timbales. Here’s to hoping they’ll visit our website someday! The videos are after the break.
One of our good friends, Serena Cuevas from Deseo Dance Co., made a guest star appearance with Cristian Oviedo (another addicted2salsa favorite) at last night’s show of “Dancing With the Stars”. They performed alongside another couple, to a new song called “Tu Conga Bach” by group Tiempo Libre. Great job to Serena and Cristian, both in orange in the video, for once again showcasing great Latin dance performances to the world. Don’t forget to give us a ride when you become even more famous and drive a new Bugatti!
You just have to admire what PBS does for the community and the public. I was excited to find out, through a Facebook ad (who would’ve thought), that PBS will be having a documentary about history and culture of Latin Music in the USA. Not only will they air the documentary episodes on TV, but they are making them available for viewing online through the PBS.org website starting October 13, 2009. Their first chapter will focus on the birth of what is called ‘Boogaloo’ and how it ties to the “The Salsa Revolution” in chapter 2. They plan to go through some of the history of Willie Colón and Hector Lavoe and the growth of Fania Records during this episode. Fania Records was the record label started by the famous Johnny Pacheco, that helped salsa music acquire a taste in the United States. I recommend everyone to check out their preview and site since they have a lot of content including salsa music, bonus videos and interviews (see sidebar on the website for more sections).
While our friends over at Nuevotec continue to work on the 2009 New York Salsa Dance Congress video review, I thought I’d share the video they posted on their site of last year’s 2008 event which contains some amazing dancing from Juan Matos, Candy Mena, Maykel Fonts, Griselle Ponce, Karel Flores, and Magna Gopal. Make sure you check out the Nuevotec site for other great salsa dance congress videos.
[Updated 09.06.09] The great folks at ilivesalsa.com have posted several videos and their summary of the NYC Salsa Congress 2009. Be sure to check it out here.
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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