Salsa Lessons World Wide

Arrive at 7 PM for an intermediate/advanced Nightclub Two-Step lesson with ROBB BRYAN and BRIANNE GREENE. At 7:45 PM, take an intermediate/advanced West Coast Swing lesson with Jim Minty & KATIE McCASLIN Then dance to your WCS favorites from 9:00 to 11:30pm. A pre-paid dance card is $65 and includes 6 lessons (either class) and 6 dances. Drop-in admission is $17 for one class and dance, or $22 for both classes and dance. One class only is $12 and the dance only is $7. Presented by Tony Azar every Thursday at China Harbor Restaurant, 2040 Westlake Ave N, Seattle.

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LearnSalsa.com, AKA as Los Angeles Salsa Lessons, and it’s affiliates are heavily involved in the Entertainment Industry. As well as the Los Angeles Salsa Scene. Our goal is to make your salsa dancing experience the best when learning this “hot” Salsa Dance! Everyone is doing it! The popularity of LearnSalsa.com is out of control and has become nation-wide! Here are a few Salsa testimonials sent to us by our customers!!!

LearnSalsa.com is the place to be if you love salsa! We are famous for our Salsa Bootcamps, weekly salsa classes, private salsa lessons as well as our salsa videos! We know that you will have a great time as you Learn Salsa! Tell all your friends about Salsa Bootcamp and make it an event!

You DO NOT need a partner!! We do a constant rotation of partners, you will dance with everyone of the opposite sex. Our environment is a comfortable learning environment. We don’t want to embarrass anyone or make anyone feel uncomfortable. We ask that everyone encourage each other for support. We work hard to make sure you are having FUN at the Los Angeles Salsa Lessons ( salsa testimonials here)!!

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Part 3 of a educational series I'm doing on the history of salsa dancing. This third video talks about how Mambo eventually came to be called salsa. It also summarizes the evolution of salsa from it's African origins to modern day America. http://www.nysalsa101.com

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Learn to dance the basic Foxtrot steps right here. Get started right now as we show you how to dance the Foxtrot, step by step, for absolute beginners. http://www.DanceCrazy.com

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Part 1 of a educational series I'm doing on the history of salsa dancing. This first video explores the Cuban and African heritage of the music and dance. http://www.nysalsa101.com

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Dancing With the Stars’ Mark Ballas offers salsa lessons at the Puerto Rico Tourism Company pop-up store at the Glendale Galleria in California on October 17. The Glendale event was part of a multi-city U.S. tour to promote travel to the Island of Enchantment. For more information on travel to Puerto Rico visit www.gotopuertorico.com

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In America in the late 1950s and early 60s, one young man became a symbol for a country grappling to move past its long-held views of people of color. His unprecedented journey unfolded as he shattered not only sports records, but also perceptions of what was possible for an African-American at the time. His name was Ernie Davis, but fans knew him better as The Elmira Express.
This film is a tribute to his courage.
Based on a true story, The Express follows the extraordinary life of college football hero Ernie Davis (ROB BROWN of Finding Forrester, Coach Carter). His quiet fight for equality and respect forever changed the face of the game, and his civil rights story continues to inspire new generations.
Born in 1939 and raised in poverty in Pennsylvania coal-mining country by his grandmother and grandfather (CHARLES S. DUTTON of Secret Window, Gothika), before moving to Elmira, New York, Davis hurdled social and economic obstacles to become one of the greatest running backs in college football history. Under the guidance of legendary Syracuse coach Ben Schwartzwalder (DENNIS QUAID of The Rookie, Any Given Sunday), he became a hero who surpassed Jim Browns achievements and became the first African-American player to be awarded the Heisman Trophy, college footballs highest individual honor.

ROB BROWN (Ernie Davis) received critical acclaim in his feature-film debut as Jamal Wallace in the Gus Van Sant film Finding Forrester. A natural-born talent, who had never studied nor had any professional acting experience, he was awarded the Las Vegas Film Critics Society Award for Best Male Newcomer in 2000, as well as the Golden Satellite Award for Outstanding New Talent for his performance opposite Sean Connery, the Oscar®-winning actress Anna Paquin and F. Murray Abraham.
Brown was last seen in Kimberly Peirces Stop-Loss, a drama about a young soldier who returns to his hometown in Texas from the war in Iraq, only to be recalled by the governments stop-loss policy. This Scott Rudin film stars several talented young actors alongside Brown, including Channing Tatum, Ryan Phillippe and Joseph Gordon-Levitt.
In 2005, Brown starred opposite Alexis Bledel and Chris Evans in the gritty independent film The Orphan King, directed by Andrew Wilder. Later that same year, Brown appeared alongside Samuel L. Jackson and Ashanti in Paramount Pictures Coach Carter. In this story of a controversial high-school basketball coach (Jackson) who benches his undefeated team due to poor grades, Brown plays a key member of the team who becomes involved with a female classmate (Ashanti).
Brown also appeared in New Line Cinemas Take the Lead, co-starring Antonio Banderas and Alfre Woodard, and directed by Liz Friedlander. This true story is about a former professional ballroom dancer (Banderas) who volunteers at a New York City public school to teach dance. Brown shines in the role of a troubled student who participates in this new attempt to reform students in detention through ballroom dance lessons.
Brown, who was born in Harlem and raised in Brooklyn, currently resides in New York City.

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THE FIRST TUNE IS: “Cogele el Golpe” (Grab the Beat) by Israel ‘Cachao’ Lopez… THE SECOND TUNE IS: ‘Vitamina’ by Noro Morales… THE THIRD TUNE IS: ‘Mambo N úmero 8′ by Damaso Perez Prado…

Boogaloo (shing-a-ling, popcorn music) is a genre of Latin music and dance that was very popular in the United States in the late 1960s. Boogaloo originated in New York City among teenage Cubans and Puerto Ricans. The style was a fusion of popular African American R&B, rock and roll and soul with mambo and son montuno. Boogaloo entered the mainstream through the American Bandstand television program.

The boogaloo dance was loose and interpretive in style. Early Boogaloo used a twelve-step sequence that was later sped up into a thirty-step sequence. The most common musical feature was a mid-tempo, looping melody that doubled as the anchoring rhythm, often played on piano or by the horn section. The presence of vocals, especially a catchy, anthematic chorus, was another distinguishing feature, especially in comparison to more instrumental dances like the mambo, guajira and guaracha.

Nowadays, the footwork is similar to Pachanga, but tends to be fast and bouncy like jive and also usually counted over an eight beat pattern. In the 1950s and 60s, African Americans in the United States listened to a number of styles of music, including jump blues, R&B and doo wop. Puerto Ricans in New York City shared in these tastes, but also listened to genres like mambo or chachacha. There was much intermixing of Latinos, especially Puerto Ricans and Cubans, and African Americans, and clubs that catered to both groups tried to find musical common ground to attract both. Boogaloo was the result of this search, a marriage of many styles including Cuban son montuno and guajira, Puerto Rican/Cuban guaracha, mambo and most uniquely, American R&B/soul.

Boogaloo can be seen as “the first Nuyorican music” (René López), and has been called “the greatest potential that (Latinos) had to really cross over in terms of music” (Izzy Sanabria). Styles like doo wop also left a sizable infuence, through Tony Pabón (of Pete Rodríguez Band), Bobby Marín, King Nando, Johnny Colón and his vocalists Tony Rojas and Tito Ramos. Puerto Ricans (Herman Santiago and Joe Negroni) played a foundational role in the major doo wop group Frankie Lymon & the Teenagers. Herman Santiago was the author of the groups #1 “hit” “Why Do Fools Fall In Love”.

Though boogaloo did not become mainstream nationwide until later in the decade, two early Top 20 hits came in 1963: Mongo Santamaria’s performance of the Herbie Hancock piece “Watermelon Man” and Ray Barretto’s “El Watusi”. Inspired by these two successes, a number of bands began imitating their infectious rhythms (which were Latinized R&B), intense conga rhythms and clever novelty lyrics. Some long-time veteran Latin musicians played an occasional boogaloo number, including Perez Prado and Tito Puente, but most of the performers were teenagers like The Latin Souls, The Lat-Teens, Pucho & His Latin Soul Brothers, Joe Bataan, Joe Cuba Sextet, and The Latinaires.

The older generation of Latin musicians have even been accused of initially using their influence to repress this youth-oriented movement. The term boogaloo was probably coined in about 1966 by Richie Ray and Bobby Cruz. The biggest boogaloo hit of the 60s was “Bang Bang” by the Joe Cuba Sextet, which achieved unprecedented success for Latin music in the United States in 1966 when it sold over one million copies. Other hits included Johnny Colón’s “Boogaloo Blues,” Pete Rodríguez’s “I Like It Like That,” and Hector Rivera’s “At the Party”. Boogaloo also spread to Puerto Rico, where top band El Gran Combo released some material. Though the dance craze was over by the turn of the decade, boogaloo was popular enough that almost every major and minor Latin dance artist of the time recorded at least a few boogaloos on their albums.

The same year as Joe Cuba’s pop success, 1966, saw the closing of New York City’s Palladium Ballroom, a well-known venue that had been the home of big band mambo for many years. The closing marked the end of mainstream mambo, and boogaloo ruled the Latin charts for about two years before salsa music began to take over.

Boogaloo remains extremely popular to this day in Cali, Colombia, where the genre is played extensively, along with salsa and pachanga, in various FM and AM radio stations and hundreds of dance clubs. The Caleños also speed up Cha Cha Cha tunes, from 33 to 45 RPM, to create the boogaloo sound & rhythm to match the city’s fast dance style.

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Victor and nikki take salsa lessons

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