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!
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Don’t miss the season premiere of Dancing With The Stars tonight on ABC! As always, a diverse group of stars will be paired with dance professionals to compete in various ballroom dance genres. Check it out tonight at 8/7 central!
I have been watching the ‘Dancing with the Stars‘ show for a while now and I have grown accustomed to watching great ballroom dances and good non-Latin Latin dance routines. I praise the celebrity dancers for their hard work and determination in learning something completely new to them. This is nothing against them because I truly admire their progress. However, I always have an issue when the professional dancers on the show are required to dance a specific genre of dance, such as salsa, and we come to find out that they don’t know what is real salsa dancing. Now, I do understand that there are different styles of salsa dancing around the world. My judgment takes this into account. However, when you slap on stereotypical non-salsa dance steps with house music and state that you are salsa dancing – that is a whole different story. The video below is what gives salsa dancing an improper typecast compared to what you and I know and love.
My biggest gripe with the whole thing is the judges. While Carrie Ann Inaba is measuring entertainment value and Bruno Tonioli is measuring timing (you can see him hit the table when couples dance), Len Goodman is supposed to be judge who prefers traditional steps and music. Len usually criticizes couples when they don’t follow proper dance structure in terms of proper steps for the assigned dance, but last night was a different story. I have finally come to accept no judge or professional dancer in the show knows what is real salsa dancing.
See for yourself at the judges reaction and let me know what you think!
As most of you might have known, I have become an avid viewer of the show Dancing With the Stars. While my enjoyment of the show is watching non-dancers progress to become better dancers, every now and then highly entertaining choreographies are presented that require sharing. Last night, Mark Ballas choreographed a very unique cha cha dance that had a good mix of regular ballroom cha cha with a hint of Michael Jackson pop steps. Enjoy and share!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuDnTW3F2J0
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
This is an exciting week in dance competitions! Not only will Addicted2Salsa contest finalists be chosen (last minute entries accepted until midnight tonight!), Dancing With The Stars narrows down to the very last couple as well. Anthony and I have not only followed the show this season, we got the chance to attend a recording of one of the shows. It was an exciting experience to see the behind the scenes action, and watch the dancers up close. The dance moves were even more impressive in person, as were the costumes, make-up and tans. We watched Kristi, Marissa, Cristián, Jason and Shannon dance their way to the top. Since then, Shannon and Marissa have been eliminated, but this week the winner will be decided! Check out the season finale tonight (Monday), 8/7c and Tuesday 9/8c for the results show on abc. The only stars remaining are Kristi-the Olympic champion figure skater, Cristián-the international film star, and Jason-NFL man of the year: who is your favorite dancer? Let us know in the forums!
http://youtube.com/watch?v=dkeophrA-YI
Bloch is carried here as well,...
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