Written by Josip Sito . Dancing since 2012. Started with breakdance, but after 5 years of spinning on head decided to spin on feet, i.e switched to Salsa. Have traveled to international festivals like Salsa Beach Splash in Šibenik, World Salsa Meeting in Milano, Croatian Summer Salsa Festival in Rovinj, and Magic Slovenian Salsa Festival in Ljubljana.
The breakdancing guy in red is me
Introducing one of the salsa instructors that inspired not only me but also many other people, Nataša Pavičević. On the meaning of dance, creating your job, stopping everything and focusing on the calling, sabotaging yourself, and other similar topics you can listen to in this interesting podcast.
Sometimes there is a tendency to separate, to categorize. To think what we like is better than other things. In the salsa context, there is a tendency to think that one type of dance is better than another.
Frankie Martinez, one of the Eddie Torres students, gives here a beautiful and short introduction to the most popular salsa types.
You can see the difference between this type and line type of salsa (which I've shown in the previous articles). This style is danced more in a circular pattern. They are usually not doing fast spins and there is a lot more body movement and Cuban folklore involved. It is a very playful style of dance.
On of the big faces of Salsa On 1 is Johnny Vasquez. He is, along with his brothers Luis and Francisco, credited for creating and popularizing the Salsa On 1 style. He won a load of Salsa competitions and because of his talent Eddie Torres crowned him as the Prince of Salsa.
This video describes in detail what was happening in the Palladium Era. At one point they started to organize competitions in the Palladium Ballroom. One of the famous dance couples that were regulars at these contests were Augie and Margo who were also a big inspiration to Eddie Torres.
One of the veterans who didn't agree with the term Salsa was Eddie Torres, the man who defined salsa. Or mambo? What is the difference? Why didn't he like the term? I've put the material in which he explains all of that in this article.
This is salsa. Or then it was called Mambo. And it was during the 60s in New York. During those days dancers came into one place. Palladium Ballroom.
Simply said, Salsa is a sauce of made of many ingredients. It is not just one dance, but it contains many rhythms and dances.
They are a pure flavour of body movement and energy. I was at some of their workshops last year in Rovinj salsa festival, and I ended being positively surprised. In this social dance you can see how they are really just playing with music and mixing many, many styles.
Maykel is known as one of the best dancers on the salsa scene and rather than...
I would say this is pretty accurate...
Panagiotis is known for his crazy, fast paced trick, flick and advanced partnerwork combinations...
This type of show is very rare because it is not as dynamic and full of energy as it is the usual case...
Terry here is the musicality master. It is said that he does not follow the music, the music follows him...
Super Mario is also called One Million Moves man because probably nobody has invented that many unique moves as he.
Again Rodrigo, but now he is with his partner Bersy Cortez. Both of them are crazy, and very famous in salsa and their workshops are always crowded what you can see by the amount of attendants in...
When someone is an expert in salsa, they will mostly do basic moves, but that will still look fascinating...
