2017

Del Campo Dance Studio

North America / USA /  California

Del Campo Dance Studio is proud to be the longest running studio for Salsa dance instruction in the Sacramento area. With a well-rounded program focused on Salsa dancing they have seen countless students dance their way into confidence. Their dance community is welcoming and lively. You’ll find an energy and style that brings life to the dance floor in the group classes, workshops and at the outside weekly venues. Beginners are welcome and encouraged to join. Offering beginner classes on the dance floor, and in studio (no partner needed).

Now is your time to dance!

Salsa is a Latin style of dance that is primarily danced with a partner. The music is energetic and lively with percussions, horns and a distinct latin beat that has you moving in your seat. The dance is made of quick footwork, spins, patterns and a passionate show of body movement in relationship to the music-styling known as cuban motion or latin hip action.

Salsa is an excellent dance for inexperienced dancers to get their dancing feet moving and a favorite style for those who dance with a passionate soul.

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Private lessons

Private lessons are available for individual students or for couples by appointment.

Private sessions are an excellent way for inexperienced dancers to become familiar with the dance style(s) they are most interested in, and a quick way to feel comfortable on the dance floor. Private lessons are also perfect for the more experienced dancer to quickly advance their dancing skills.

Group Classes

Group classes are an important part of the Salsa Dance program. Salsa Dance offers group classes for beginners, and intermediate classes for those who desire to continue learning and keep in-step with their dance training. All of the classes accommodate leaders and followers with attention to steps, partner techniques, rhythm with a touch of style. No partner needed! All you have to do is show up and have fun.

For more information about other dance classes, visit https://www.delcampodance.com/home . Private Lessons

John Leguizamo Returns to Broadway

North America / USA / New York

John Leguizamo returns to Broadway with the super production LATIN HISTORY FOR MORONS for only 16 weeks, a comedy theater that will teach the audience the story of Latino immigrants in North America that you won’t find either in books or in the education provided in the schools of the country.

This sympathetic actor, comedian, and Colombian – American producer created this monologue due to the situation he faced a long time ago with his son. The child was being bullied in the private school that he attended in NYC for being one of the few children of Hispanic origin there. For that reason, and using homework of heroes assigned to his son, John began to teach him some Latino leaders who played big roles in American history. “Things were getting kind of rough out there…

And then, all of a sudden, we were in this dark episode where Latin people are being maligned and we’ve become the whipping post for the president. They even tried to pass the – show me your papers- law in Texas, basically profiling Latin people”, said Leguizamo to an American media.

After 4 years of research, this Emmy Award-winner actor, very happy, created this dramaturgy in which he reveals the struggle of 10,000 Latinos in the American Revolutionary War, the brave AfroCaribbean women in Virginia who sold their jewels to feed the patriots in the wars. The shocking truth of the Cuban woman, Loreta Velasquez, who joined the army in New Orleans and fought the front in three battles of the Civil War disguised as a man. And not in accordance with it, John will continue walking for 3000 years of history, he will make us cross three continents and tell us about different empires, Mayas, Aztecs and Incas.

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He will speak of Montezuma and Menudo, Yes! You read well, “Menudo” and he will close the acts with traditional dances like the Cumbia and indigenous rituals without censorship. “I was so ignorant of my own history because it is not taught in schools. It was a huge hole in my education and it shouldn’t have been, because without us Latinos, America wouldn’t be the country that it is”, Leguizamo explained to an American media.

John, who acted in series such ER (Dr. Victor Clemente), films such as: Super Mario Bros (Luigi) and more recently Wick 2 (Aurelio), besides, the voice of Sid (the laziness) in Ice Age, he in Latin History for Morons has a very unique style, a mixture between a stand up and a traditional dramaturgy. “There are other characters on stage, which I play; I do scenes with them and there is a narrative moving forward… I like to take people there with mime, dance, and music – it is very physical… It’s amazing what the audience will allow you to do.

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They will go with you anywhere as long as you stick to the rules that you set up at the beginning. That’s the beauty of theater. And that’s what makes me keep coming back. Anything is possible on stage. It seems to be the most democratic and egalitarian place in America for entertainment. Where else would Hamilton have happened? It couldn’t have happened in Hollywood, or on cable or the networks”, said Jhon Leguizamo in an interview.

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For his solo work of 45min of duration and which began since the third week of October he had to prepare himself in boxing as well as in dance. Hard work he had to do every day. “I’ve learned to consolidate my storytelling and be more of myself. To not just be an entertainer, but allow my anger, my edgier sides – and allow people to be even more uncomfortable. I never wanted my shows to be just Pollyanna shows,” he also said, “Latin comedy is a full emotional experience.”

Latin History for Morons (a satirical History Class) back to John Leguizamo to Broadway, under the direction of the famous theater director Tony Taccone, who owns 36 years of Career and who currently is the artistic director of Berkeley Repertory Theater in Berkeley, California. Moreover, John made his first Broadway presentation in 1991 with “Mambo Mouth” winning an Obie and he was nominated several times for Tony Awards for “Freak” in 1998.

“Broadway is just a culmination of a lot of work, and it always feels so celebratory. It’s the gaining of the highest prize.” John Leguizamo.

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Venue: STUDIO 54. 254 W. 54TH ST., NEW YORK, NY. Tickets: $79 – $139 To get more information like them on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/LatinHistory101/ or buy the tickets online through https://www.latinhistorybroadway.com/

Vinny Rivera releases his New Kizomba Hit “Compatible”

North America / USA / Massachusetts

The sensation of Kizomba music of all time, Victor Vincent Rivera, better known as Vinny Rivera, releases to the musical scene his new Kizomba single “Compatible” off the upcoming album “La Cosecha”. An album that will be centered in big melodies, the explosion of rhythms and the Tropical sound characteristic of Kizomba music and whose genre we have become accustomed to hear in his sweet and melodious voice.

The #1 Latin Kizomba Artist in the World who was born in Boston, Massachusetts, during his total successful European Tour where performed songs coming off of his album “La Torre”, Vinny achieved to conquer audiences of all ages, cultures and languages, falling in love to the international public.

Vinny has arrived this year with this new video of his most recently hit “Compatible” taking beautiful footage the Nederlands and starring with the international model Lillyann heaven, scenes in marvelous landscapes with a romantic history based on Rivera seducing a beautiful lady to establish a loving relationship with her. COMPATIBLE is destined to establish itself among the best song in the billboards of popularity in the world because it mixture sensuality with a cadence that invite you to dance softly with your dance partner to the rhythm of the Kizomba so popular in festivals and special events currently.

Vinny Rivera continues to shine in the music entertainment scene in America and the rest of the world increasing his fans between knower and professional dancers of this Latin Kizomba music, and if the LA COSECHA album will be so excellent like COMPATIBLE song, no doubt, he will be one of the artists with fruitful career and major projection nowadays…

Dance. The best of America United in a Single Project

Latin America / Cuba / La Habana

Since the 1950s, a very humorous genre called the casino dance was born in Cuba, a style based on dancing the Cuban music of the moment between couples. This lies in history since the fashion of Mambo and Cha Cha Cha in the most aristocratic clubs and in the fraternal halls of poor blacks of the beautiful island, they danced on Saturdays, Sundays or special parties on specific days, for the moment the rhythms sounded de la Aragon, Chapotin, Orquesta Casino, el Benni, among others, without leaving aside rhythms such as rock and roll, sounds of the time that fought for a space in the fans.

From the mixture and the dance relationship of those attending the clubs is born that change of couples in circular formation called the Rueda de Casino, a name that we will be developing in other editions of the magazine.

In America, especially in the south of this continent, Salsa Casino, as it is called in many places, has managed to lay firm foundations, much more than what is known in Europe or North America, in some countries becoming the reference number 1 of the Salsa dance modality. We have the best example in Venezuela, land of casinos par excellence, where we can add a great hundred dance schools nationwide, without leaving behind how strong it is in Colombia and Peru, among some countries that also use this discipline. as a strong influence on young and old.

It is incredible to see the great differences in styles and forms between the casinos in Europe and those in South America, but always the same concept, joining several couples to enjoy a good timba or a good son.

From the foregoing, the Cubashow Project arises, born with the primary objective of generating a training and development channel for the new generations that venture into the beautiful world of dance, mainly those linked to Cuban Salsa and its roots in popular music or traditional Cuban music, folklore and its Afro tendencies, all in relation to the strong wave of this discipline that is developing in the main capitals of many American countries.

BAILA QUE BAILA AMERICA a concept of union between southern countries to extend the dissemination of Salsa Casino in the continent brings together some of the best instructors from each country with the sole intention of conducting national and international training tours in all trends of the dances of Cuban culture, in this way we obtain from the best exponents classes, seminars, talks, forums, workshops and shows that can be viewed through the social networks of @BailaQueBailaAmerica the different schools, academies or instructors registered to the project.

Professional dance teams are structured based on their local projections, the work they do within each of their countries. An event of great proportions is expected for the month of June where we will be able to have the best instructors from all over South America together in a high caliber event, we just have to be attentive to social networks and future reports of this great magazine to join us. to this casual wave.

Mambo Coffee

Latin America / Ecuador / Quito

Mambo Coffee. One year playing El Ritmo

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We are talking about the fashionable nightlife space in Quito, a space dedicated to dancing, enjoyment and the city’s nightlife. From its tropical image that clearly denotes its dedication to Latin music, to its context, it calls you to have a good time, with family, friends and in the company of a good musical selection.

In a short time, the Mambo, as it is known, has achieved an important link between all the dance schools in the city, sometimes being the meeting place for these dance professionals. For everyone’s benefit we have bachata and salsa Wednesdays, classic salsa Thursdays and Fridays and tropical Saturdays where we can listen to a musical variety that manages to absorb a very heterogeneous audience.

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Michell Castillo, manager, expresses to us, “…the concept of Mambo Café is aimed at a Latin public, salsero, who wants to enjoy a good bar.” Concept that day after day continues to be rooted in the visiting public. “… the name arose from the need for something multicolored for a salsa bar, the conditions of the premises allowed the designer to play with colors and structures that will speak for themselves.” It is striking to see a column decorated with acetate discs, murals and paintings in the best Caribbean style.

We had the experience of collecting impressions from many of the city’s dancers, all express the good atmosphere that is lived in this beautiful place, these institutions have had their doors open to celebrate their anniversaries, special parties, closing of the year and other festive occasions. thanks to the great opportunities that the bar offers us.

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The recommendation is to try the range of cocktails, delight yourself with the flavored Margarita, a huge glass that you will surely taste with great fascination, not to mention the Maracuya mojitos and the bulldog tequila that surprises you with a corona beer among the decoration, all a show. The Mambo is still waiting for everyone’s visit, from Wednesday to Saturday making the bailadera fashionable in Quito.

It is located on Ave. Cristóbal Colón, Quito 170517, Ecuador where you can contact them through: Facebook: MamboCafeQuito Email: [email protected] Telephone: +593 2-223-1249

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