For the first time ever, Dancing with the Stars is featuring SALSA as a dance category!!!
It is exciting to see salsa being incorporated into mainstream shows about dancing. DWTS has featured mambo in the past, but this season the stars will be attempting salsa as well. Tonight half of the stars did quickstep, and the other half danced salsa. While the judges declared Melissa and Tony’s dance “the salsa of the night”, my personal favorite was Shawn Johnson (USA Gymnast) with her partner, Mark Ballas. I found Shawn and Mark’s dance to be the most faithful to the salsa dance genre with great style to top it off.
I encourage everyone in the salsa community to check out the show on Mondays 8/7c and Tuesdays 9/8c on ABC, and share your opinions in the comments below!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKqRMQzVsAw
I agree – the only REAL salsa song used was by Shawn Johnson and her partner Mark. The rest were all pop songs or samba songs. This is probably the most irritating fact of the show because it gives the wrong impression of salsa dancing to the general public. (My 2 cents)
We in Spain have had salsa already on “Mira quien baila” because they have salsa champions Adrian Carbajal y Anita Santos in the program to dance with the celebrities.
Not only salsa, but all dances that those programs make are “only for the show”, not real dance. They give wrong impressions, sure, but they also makes people want to dance and learn, and that is (usually) good for us, teachers (but bad economy is affecting us hard too).
Grande, Anthony! Sigue asi.
I thought Shawn and Mark did an excellent job. Now, for Shawn to improve, she has to get “naughty” and let go. What exactly does that mean? My guess is that she would have to move her hips and shake her shoulders more. What else can she do?
In Canada, last season’s So You Think You Can Dance Canada not only had numerous salsa and mambo numbers throughout the show, but one of the final four dancers (Natalie Reznik) is (was) a well-known salsera from the Toronto salsa scene. Lots of good exposure for the genre, and a resultant explosion in the number of people taking salsa lessons around the city!
That explains why Natalie was giving salsa lessons two weeks ago in Toronto. They had announced it on Facebook the week before. And I had planned to go to Toronto the week after. I was not happy that I missed that.
I’m a french and I live in Paris.
The video clip in the beginning is the usual facts to describe France (French lover, good food, good wine, pretty girls).
I think he is great dancer but in this videoclip, it’s free salsa !!!!
(a mix of porto cuban we said in french cubaritaine !!!).
There are no such difficulties and the music !!!: they call it salsa ???.I’m a french and I live in Paris.
The video clip in the beginning is the usual facts to describe France (French lover, good food, good wine, pretty girls).
I think he is great dancer but in this videoclip, it’s free salsa !!!!
(a mix of porto cuban we said in french cubaritaine !!!).
There are no such difficulties and the music !!!: they call it salsa ???.