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Enjoy Salsa In The New Zealand Winter

With Hanmer Salsa Winter Fest 2021

The longest and continuous annual event of Afro-Caribbean music in New Zealand since 1995 brings this year dancers from all over the country for you to enjoy moving to the rhythm of Salsa, Bachata, Merengue, Cha-Cha, Kizomba, and Zouk in the snow. Join this festival even if you are a dance professional or a beginner, you will always have something that suits you.

Hanmer Salsa Winter Fest 2021 is an event for the whole family!

Couple dancing at Hanmer Salsa Winter Fest 2021
Latin Party Ticket (Online): $30 or $40 at the door

According to the authorities, New Zealand continues in the Level 2 category concerning the Covid-19 pandemic, which means that dancing as a couple is allowed as part of active recreation and is classified as a sport.

At alert level 2, the contact is possible:

  • Keeping track of peers
  • Constant hygiene of hands and surfaces
  • Using the masks (Optional)
  • Also, you can dance with only one partner if you choose not to be part of the rotation. (Swapping pairs in classes)

This year Hanmer Salsa Winter Fest presents ten Workshops:

Greydis (Cuba) dancing in the hanmer Salsa
Instructor for Salsa workshops: Greydis (Cuba)

Afro-Cuban – Palo: Recommended for all those who want to learn the Afro-Cuban roots. It is open to all levels. (Palo Monte belongs to the West African region of the Congo and is part of the Bantú religion).

Cuban Salsa Casino Partnerwork & Rueda Intro: The Cuban style will be worked in pairs and Rueda. In the Rueda style, a man (leader) turns instructions, and everyone executes the specific movements while exchanging pairs. Level: Intermediate. Duration: 60 minutes.

Afro Cuban – Oggun: This workshop will be held on Saturday at 10 AM, and that is ideal to continue learning about Afro-Cuban roots. Dancers of any level can access it. (Oggun: is a god of the Yoruba religion).

The Cuban Salsa Shines: It is recommended for dancers of intermediate and advanced levels. Here you will improve your footwork in the Cuban style.

Cuban Salsa Casino Partnerwork & Rueda: Workshop dedicated to improving your dance technique as a couple and in Rueda. If you have not practiced it for years, I recommend doing the  Cuban SalsaCasino Partnerwork & Rueda Intro workshop first.

In addition to these five Salsa workshops, you can also learn to dance Kizomba and Bachata. The Bachata workshops include partner work and mergers with Sensual Bachata, while the kizomba workshops will be focused on improving transitions.

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On Friday night, the Salsa parties and other Latin rhythms begin on a large dance floor and with an incredible sound system. The DJs in charge will be DJ Reuben and DJ Dave. Time: 9 PM – 12 AM. During this party, at approximately 10:30 PM, the dance animation will enter. A fun solo dance style like Zumba. Get ready to have fun and meet new friends here.

Information to access the Hanmer Salsa Winter Fest

For the first day, you must arrive 5 to 15 minutes earlier than the stipulated time to obtain the bracelet that will guarantee your priority entry to any of the workshops.

If you are one of those with a single entry, don’t worry, you can access the class if any member of the full access entries is not on time. Payment will be made on the same day of the workshop.

There is no set limit for people to enter for the late-night Latin parties. The passes will be available online until a week before the event.

Date: Friday, August 27th – Saturday, August 28th

Address: Hanmer Memorial Hall. 1 Jollies Pass Rd, Hanmer Springs. New Zealand

These Data May Interest You:

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In Hanmer Spring, you can enjoy the snow while relaxing in the thermal pools
  1. Hanmer Springs is a small town in the Canterbury region of the South Island of New Zealand. Winter in this country runs from June to August.
  2. At this premier alpine spa destination in New Zealand, you will find a complex of Thermal Pools, as well as new pools, and incredible attractions.
  3. Taking a bus or driving is recommended if you want to save a little. It is an average trip of 1.5 to 2 hours.
  4. Hanmer Springs Village is located a 90-minute drive from Christchurch International Airport. If you want to take the tour, you will travel through the hills of the wine country, the rugged coastal route, and the picturesque mountain pass, if you come from the west coast.

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Good music and fine dining at Café Salsera

Feel at home at Café Salsera

North America is packed full of places where Latinos can feel at home and native people can learn more about a culture that is apparently distinct from theirs. One of these places is the wonderful Café Salsera, which has much to offer every one of its visitors. 

We are talking about a spectacular place that has a very peculiar characteristic. It turns out that, at any time of the day, it serves as a restaurant and café, while at night it becomes a fabulous nightclub where you can enjoy the best hits of today. The menu is entirely based on Mexican food and the main objective of this place is to offer the best Latin flavor to all those who want to taste it. 

While it is true that the menu is based on Mexican dishes, the ambiance of the restaurant has a Spanish colonial style which contrasts starkly with what is offered to diners. Among the main dishes to be served at Café Salsera, we can mention tacos, nachos, empanadas, pasties, chicharrones, street-style elotes, among many others. On top of this, there are also incredible cocktails, including the mangonadas, caipirinhas, margaritas, mojitos, and much more. 

Recipes made by the kitchen staff are always varied and very original. The menu always surprises regular visitors no matter the amount of times they have attended the place. 

Image of the facade of Café Salsera
Facade of Café Salsera

Fine dining and good music

When the night comes, you can enjoy an alfresco dining with live music, but this does not have to end this way. On Fridays, the place has the powerful presence of DJ Turo, who is in charge of livening up the atmosphere with the latest salsa, bachata, merengue and other rhythms. On Saturdays, attendees will be lucky enough to dance to the rhythm of Erick Jaimez, who will play the latest music and some not-so-recent hits for the nostalgic. On Tuesdays, salsa lessons are planned to be given by a group of instructors who are highly trained to reach this genre. 

According to the opinions issued through social media, those who have had the opportunity to go to Café Salsera assure that it is a fantastic place to visit at all times, since it has the particularity of being a restaurant, cafe and nightclub on the same day. They also assure that the treatment by the staff is the best and warmest to make customers feel at home. 

Considering open hours, on Mondays, they are open from 5:00 pm to 10:00 pm. On Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, it is open from 5 pm to 2 a.m. Attendees can go for dinner, dancing or both without any problems. 

Here you can see some tables at Café Salsera
Some tables at Café Salsera

There is also the possibility of renting one or more VIP rooms in which an approximate of 10 people can spend a good time in glad company and the best Latin music in the background. Of course, the cost will depend on whether visitors wish to dine or simply have a nice time between drinks.   

If attendees want a table for only 4 or 5 people, they can book a VIP table, which will include a bottle for all members of the group. On Saturdays, the cost of booking a table will be $155. In case you want to book a VIP section for 10 people, you must cancel an amount of $ 285.   

Without a doubt, a fabulous place to eat, drink, dance, and listen to good music after all these months of confinement due to the pandemic.   

Ourdor tables at Café Salsera
Outdoor seating at Safé Salsera

Link to its official website: https://www.cafesalsera.com/

 

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Meet the young Dominican “El Viejete sin Bastón”

In the streets of the Dominican Republic there is a young talent in the world of music who is dedicated to the sale of bananas and dreams of being a great artist, he is living in the community of “Los Tocones”, a town in the province of Distrito Nacional located in the Dominican Republic, where the townspeople have been very supportive to date with the dream of being a famous Dominican singer, representing their country.

The artist’s name is Emmanuel Fernández, known as “El Viejete sin Bastón”

A nickname that was given to him by the inhabitants of his neighborhood since he was a child around 5 and 6 years of age, since at an early age he was some gray hair, then his nickname of “Viejete” came from them and “Sin Bastón” for being a very young person.

His passion for music started from a very young age with a born talent…. During the interview he tells us that… “I can’t listen to music, I live it… typical merengue, bachata, in general that I like music”. In his family he is the oldest of 4 siblings and with only 25 years he has already been in the world of music for 13 years, with a desire to conquer a place in the world of music in the Dominican Republic and around the world; He also has the dream of achieving these goals to improve and change his quality of life and give his mother what she deserves so much, which is “a country house.”

“El Viejete sin Bastón”
Cover of the album of “El Viejo sin Bastón”

Life is very hard, so many choose to carry out their dreams or goals to carry out different jobs, in this case the singer “El Viejete sin Bastón” mentions us, who is dedicated not only to his music, but also to the sale of bananas and in times of difficulty he helps to sell fruits and vegetables with which he helps to support his family and what is left over from his extra work he invests in his life project which is “La Música”.

Despite the fact that his music is “Dembow”, he affirms that he has added new colors with a combination of sounds, which make his music very contagious, thus becoming a new and refreshing genre for everyone who hears it.

Currently he has the illusion that in the future he would like to record with the “Complete Genre” and 3 other artists which are “Chimbala”, “Don Miguelo” and “Bulin 47”; However, at present it has a song that is being positioned in all the networks called “SACO E ‘SAL”. It is a song that has received great support, becoming a new and interesting topic in the cyber world that is viewed by everyone world.

One of the questions that was asked to “El Viejete sin Bastón” was:

What message do you have for young people who have been left behind and are not following their dreams?

“Do not let them keep working, life takes many turns … like me, who sell bananas for the maintenance of my family what I have left over contributes to his music since I want to make my dream come true”

In a few words, do not limit the conditions in which you find yourself, life is a path of many possibilities that you have to know how to take advantage of what you have.

If you want to contact him or know more about him, you can follow him through:

  • Official YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCvm6HgsOyRicHnX35jrEFBQ
  • Facebook and Instagram: @elviejeteoficial
  • Email: [email protected]
  • Phone: + 1-809-484-2981

 

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Meet the director of the Academia Salsa Tepic – Mexico.

The history of Salsa Tepic :

Rafael Reyes is a Cuban who was dedicated to being a coach of Greco-Roman wrestling and Olympic Wrestling in Cuba and had the opportunity to work in Mexico in this profession during the time that his contract imposed, during this time he made the decision to live there , being his current stay in Nayarit, Mexico.

Thanks to personal motivation and the support of his students, he created and founded the Salsa Tepic Academy 6 years ago, he tells us that before founding his academy he gave dance classes at the Bar Juanes located at Rafael Buelna 86, Fray Junípero Serra, 63169 Tepic, Nayarit, Mexico; For him this was a hobby that he enjoyed very much and when he stopped working there, many of his students advised him to open a dance academy and that is how it came about.

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Salsa Tepic Logo – Dance Academy

 

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Estudiantes practicando pasos de baile en Salsa Tepic

Estudiantes de la Academia Salsa Tepic
Photo of the Salsa Tepic Academy students

Son Cubano and Salsa Cubana are the genres that he likes the most, he mentions that each genre has an identification in each country and in Cuba he tells us that it is very lively and dynamic which can make different fusions such as Timba ( is the fusion of several Afro-Cuban rhythms)… giving this musical genre a lot of motivation, differentiating it from linear salsa, Salsa Neoyorquina and Salsa en Dos, but be careful, you have to know the differences between traditional Timba and Cuban Timba. and very broad cultural.Being Cuban, he tells us that music is in the blood of most Cubans, especially Afro-Caribbean music, and to top it off his parents enjoyed dancing so he spontaneously inherited this passion for dance from a very young age, and He perfected his native dance techniques in workshops with various teachers.

Rafael Reyes is also in charge of organizing the Salsa talent festivals in Nayarit, they have invited Guadalajara, Guaraguato, Puerto Bayarta, among others with new talents so that they have something more than just academic learning but a new experience through participation. and competition between the different students of each city, showing all their abilities on stage; In total, it has had 5 Salsa talent festivals, which one can find out when the next one will take place through the Salsa Tepic Facebook page.

Also the students of the Salsa Tepic academy have participated in other events such as the one that happened a few weeks ago at the Bar Tango Milonga, another event they participated was the Puerto Bayarta festival, and in other places.

The dance classes at the Salsa Tepic Academy are currently active, of course with the protection measures for the covid-19, they began to work from 7 – 10 am and from 5 to 10 pm Mexico time; There they teach Cuban Salsa, Bachata, Son Cubano, Rumba, Merengue, Cumbia, Cha Cha Cha, among other rhythms, so if you are interested in learning to dance from scratch or continue with the experience you have in order to be able to defend yourself during a social, competitions, parties and / or meetings, and at the same time that the students learn to identify the type of music that they dance respecting their respective times.

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And he leaves us the following message for all his readers, current and future students “Whatever happens, they dance, never stop, dance is very healthy, it takes away stress, it is motivational, it makes you more sociable and above all it is something that everyone likes when one learns … that they take off the taboo or the fear of saying I don’t like dancing because of any circumstance ”

For more information and the schedule of activities:

Andreyna Hernandez – The disabled Venezuelan Dancer.

Life is a succession of choices that one must live to understand certain meanings, many are easier, others more complex and others very difficult, and this time we have a Venezuelan dancer who can show us that everything is possible with having a strong fighting spirit and perseverance, her name is Andreyna Hernandez.

 

Andreyna was born on September 17, 1991 in Venezuela, studies accounting, practices swimming and is the mother of two little girls; She tells us that during her childhood she felt great enthusiasm for dance and physical activities, for this reason she became a dancer and managed to be a dance instructor at an academy, together with her boyfriend Robert Terán.

Robert Terán tells us that he and Andreyna were trained for 10 years at the Salsa & Ashé Academy and decided 6 years ago together with Andreyna to found their own academy called Fback Latino, where both are the directors and / or teachers, which is located in the vicinity of the Agua Salud station in La Cañada in Caracas, Venezuela, in June 2015, with the purpose of creating a new dance space where they can teach, “there is nothing more satisfactory than the person who learns to dance deposits all your confidence in you and achieve that goal by overcoming the penalty ”; There they teach Bachata, Salsa Casino, Kizomba and they also give a comprehensive course for children where they will have a teaching of various types of dances including ballet and contemporary dance, regardless of whether or not you have any knowledge of some of these types of dances; They mention that both they and their students have participated in competitions, although in Andreyna’s case it was mostly when she was at the Salsa & Ashé Academy on a national and international level, such as the competition in Cancun and Cuba.

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Photo of Andreyna Hernandez before 2016

Andreyna Hernandez and her boyfriend

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Photo of a Salsa Casino social at the Feedback Academy

During the course of time, Andreyna Hernández faced something that no one should face … on June 26, 2016 he had a terrible accident near his academy, where a tree fell on him, specifically on his legs giving a 360 ° turn to his life, affecting his profession and his day, he tells us… “That day that changed my life was because a tree fell on me, precisely where a few people and I were located. The tree falls right where I was sitting (on a ping pong table), and since everything happened very quickly I could not get my whole body off the table, my legs were trapped, being conscious, I thought I was going to lose both legs because of the strong impact I received … after this, many people tell me that God does not send tests to those who cannot overcome them ”

“This transition was not easy, since an accident that many think and wonder why it happened to me? … that even I ask myself at some point … be like that in the first photo, and that of the night in the morning life changes you is strong ”

“I would never say that this situation would be easy, because of course losing some part of the body is a bit difficult to assimilate. Adapt to doing things in a different way, to looking in the mirror and looking different. To the different looks of the people on the street …. ”

“But as my beautiful Super Coach @athletics_swim says to get toxic people out of the way, live life regardless of others. So … to live life, which is one. The disability is mental. There is no excuse. Because wanting is power. ”

Despite all this tragic event, he thanks God for having a second chance, thanks to the support he received from various academies that contributed to his recovery and to be able to enjoy his life of course, with a new physical condition that is not an impediment to carry out her activities, although she admits that she does more things on a larger scale than before the accident, surprising all those around her both within her social and / or family circle and her followers in the different social networks she owns, as we could observe in her different TikTok videos that went viral, such as: a dance event dancing salsa casino and dancing during her pregnancy… something new and incredible for all who see it.

Currently Andreyna Hernandez is not only the mother of a little girl who is her greatest motivation, but she is also a swimming athlete and who continues with her passion which is dance, the only thing that a person needs to have faith, love, perseverance, strength , positive mind.

He points out that “We all have our casualties from time to time, including myself. But the important thing about everything is not to stay down, the key is to get up and continue the path with your head held high with energy that life continues. Regardless of what they will say. Feeling comfortable with yourself as we are and with what we do is enough ”

Andreyna Hernandez
Andreyna Hernandez and her boyfriend

Right now in 2021, both are giving their dance classes complying with the security measures during the covid-19 pandemic with the use of face masks and other measures, which is a mutual benefit for both the instructors and the students to clear up of the confinement and to be able to release both the tension and the style that one has inside with the practice of the dance steps.

For more information:

  • Instagram: @andreynahf y @fbacklatino
  • TikTok: @andreynahf

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