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For those who missed it or have never watched the show America’s Got Talent, the 3rd place Salsa World Champions in the on2 division, Junior and Emily from San Diego, performed their routine on the TV show. They received outstanding reviews from the judges and the audience. Here at Addicted2Salsa we wish them the best of luck on winning the one million dollars. Hopefully they’ll win it as fast as Emily spins because the strength of the dollar is dwindling.
The video of their appearance is next.
I was going over the other salsa news sites to get informed about upcoming events and saw the latest episode of the Salsa Crazy Dance News Videocast. They have named us ‘Website of the Week’ for the July 4th, 2008 edition. I am really happy to have received such great praise from another prominent salsa website. The “Website of the Week” sections starts at 3:15 into the show.
Thanks to SalsaCrazy for their hard work to also make salsa information accessible to the rest of the world.
We have just finished relaunching the salsapodcast.org website to make it easier for everyone to view and download all the current and future episodes of the #1 Free Salsa Video Lesson podcast. With this new website, you should be able to view the videos in higher quality (even the old ones), in fullscreen and you should be able to directly download all the videos to your desktop. This should help make salsa dancing more accessible to everyone around the world.
I will be adding features for people to leave comments on any video and to ask questions about any specific moves. If you see some other feature that would make the website even better or easier to use - please don’t hesitate to send your feedback.
I’m sure you have now figured out why I have been ‘quiet’ for the past few months. I’d like to thank Julie for running addicted2salsa and answering emails while I was locked in the “dungeon” working. We will start working on new episodes for the fall soon.
On Friday, June 27th a new dance show premieres on ABC! It’s called Dance Machine, and we’ll get to watch six contestants break out their favorite dance moves, trying to make their way to the top. A prize of $100,000 is up for grabs, plus the title of “Dance Machine”.
Who are the contestants, you ask? Are they ’stars’, trying to quickly learn a new ballroom dance? No. The fascinating part of this show is that we are watching regular people just do what they love to do on the dance floor.
The host is Jason Kennedy, who you may recognize from E! Entertainment. Tune in to abc on Friday, June 27th at 7/8c for the season premiere of Dance Machine!
Hello guys and gals. Dany Joshua here with a second post this week: A complete and succinct explanation of the basic On2 Salsa step by Jai Catalano, host of the ESPN 2007 World Salsa Championships.
Ok. So yes, this post is very, uhhh… well, basic. Still, it’s sorta cool how ESPN explains our beloved 1 2 3, 5 6 7.
While answering a few basic cha-cha dance questions in the forums, I found a great video that helped illustrate how you can lead different styled cross-body leads in cha-cha (where you can skip the cha-cha step). You can always stick to the basic in doing the cha-cha step in place while performing a CBL, but after a while, that gets pretty boring (yawn!).
After you master the cha-cha step (you can do it without thinking), you can add creativity by modify your cha-cha steps and body movement in a CBL move. Remember, you can always NOT perform the cha-cha step, however, that requires you to have great timing so that: 1) you never throw your partner off time AND 2) you can easily get back in sync with the music. To be more clear (so I don’t get into trouble), while you may have modified your steps to not perform the cha-cha-cha to the music, the steps you replace them with must still be in sync with the music.
Here below is a clip from a couple social dancing cha-cha at the Puerto Rico salsa congress. It should provide more inspiration and creativity for those searching…
For those wondering, the first song is ‘Panama‘ and the second is ‘Salchicha on Huevo‘.
I finally took time to look into this new form of dancing called: “JumpStyle”, which in its simplest form is a mixture of ska-jumping, river dancing and techno. From watching SYTYCD, I learned about Gold Inferno - the mask wearing wrestler wannabe who loves to jump. He is the (supposedly) American Jumpstyle Dance Champion. I could not find out through my research how many people competed for that beloved title. However, for those extremely excited to integrate Jumpstyle dancing into their salsa footwork or those looking for a few smiles today, Mr. Gold Inferno has a set of super tutorial videos that will have you jumping for joy.
Now, after I had finished laughing for a few hours on his videos - I ended up discovering that it is more popular than expected, especially overseas. I may not be a fan of the dance style or costume usage, however, I’m happy that he will make some people step up to try dancing. While I can’t tell what is the current state of jumpstyle in the world, maybe our visitors overseas can send us an email about it. Until then, you can have a few more laughs at the golden warrior on his youtube page.
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