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12th edition of the distinguished Salsero and tourist Festival of Venezuela

Latin America / Venezuela / Caracas

Venezuela land of salsa by nature year after year offers us a space dedicated to this beautiful dance, mainly framed in the presentation of the talent of more than 150 dance schools registered as diffusers of Salsa in this country and an expected visit of guests and foreign public. will make the so named Venezuela es Latina an event to remember. With 12 years of successful editions, it invites us not to one more edition, it calls us to enjoy 4 nights and 3 days of multiple activities, best of all, nights of great social parties.

Venezuela es Latina XII Festival - Flyer
Venezuela es Latina XII Festival – Flyer

Venezuela is Latina, an event with more than 11 years of experience, organizes for this 2018 edition a festival full of workshops, seminars, forums, certifications, bootcamp, shows, competitions and good local tourism, the ideal space for everyone who wants to meet one of the most emblematic tourist and salsa lands in the world, the famous Venezuela.

This 12 installment gives us a cycle of more than 20 hours of classes and training cycles distributed in workshops, seminars and Bootcamp on days dedicated to the professional training of dancers or dancers, as well as instruction for visitors, novices and / or dance fans.

We will be able to delight ourselves with the knowledge of the best instructors from Colombia, Ecuador, Cuba, Venezuela among other countries that remain to be confirmed, with workshops of the most sought-after disciplines, added to this 3 high-caliber seminars of theoretical and practical content that seeks to certify participants.

For the general public, Bootcamps are offered guided by the organizing academy, the Son Rumbero school, which for 2 years has brought this famous practice to the festival, giving attendees the opportunity to do a cycle of classes that ends when they appear on stage. along with the best dancers of the moment on the main night of the festival.

For lovers of good music, there will be a meeting of salsa and timba fans or collectors, where we can enjoy the best musical themes, acquire good music, together with 3 nights of parties and social dancing to share with all attendees, framed in nights of enjoyment and sharing between dancers and sympathizers of these great rhythms at the hands of the best guest DJs.

Stage of the Venezuela es Latina XII Festival
Stage of the Venezuela es Latina XII Festival

For those who wish to visit this great event, the organizing committee has distributed all-inclusive packages for Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, Chile, Argentina, Central America, North America and Europe, with 5, 4 and 3 star hotels adapted to each need. In the same way, free packages are offered for promoters, directors or group managers who visit the festival.

Everything is ready for the 12th edition of this festival, the city of San Cristobal – Táchira State will offer us the best spaces to enjoy 4 days of great Latin things, a city 30 minutes from the border with Colombia in Cúcuta that speeds up access from the south. Dare to be part of this great festival, for more information, contact through social networks: @vzlaeslatina on Instagram and Facebook. Telephones: +573114061366 / +584126142562.

Victor Perez

Latin America / Venezuela / Maracay

Victor Perez: I was born in Maracay as a necessity of the rumbera movement that refuses to die, followed by a legion of salseros and salseras experts and experts in the rumbera subject. Due to the encouragement of rumberos and rumberas throughout various salsa parties, we managed to concretize and carry out purely salsa events.

DJs Victor Perez
DJs Victor Perez

Salsa Project

It is represented by Víctor Pérez with the idea that this movement can shape and maintain the Caribbean feeling in the music lover current.

Starting with the street rumba, rumba for the neighborhood, we started in a patio to have parties (only with sound), we made several calls receiving the attention of the rumba people, the patio being too small.

Dj Victor Perez - Salsa Proyect
Dj Victor Perez – Salsa Proyect

In 2004 we set up our first great unforgettable event, we managed to bring an anthology rumba dancer to Maracay for the first time.

In the following we continue with the rumbas with the regional orchestras and groups maintaining the salsa movement, we also held a discussion, conference in the house of culture of Maracay.

Salsa Project

In his career carrying out events he has presented a great variety of groups such as:

Bailatino, Joel Uriola and his band, mango group, Mandinga and his star band among others.

Expresion Latina - DJs Victor Perez
Expresion Latina – DJs Victor Perez

Not only in Maracay has the salsa project held events, we have worked on victory with the same rumba, bringing together salseros and salseras with the same idea.

The salsa project has also intertwined with various national organizations such as asocosalsa (caracas), asocrosalsa (pto. pelo), friends from Valencia involved with the genre, and associations from Maracay such as rumberos del patio, asosalsa Aragua, the salsa troop and others from the region. .

Victor Perez

Latin America / Venezuela / Valencia

Victor Perez ( Dj/Musician ) 

From a very early age, I started listening to Salsa, tuning into radio airport (as many times as I could), the lake station in Valencia where you could listen to some Salsa.

Then I started collecting LP records, 45 records, cassettes to listen to the insane, Tito Rodríguez, Latin Dimension and in the year 74/75, of course Ismael Rivera, Estrellas de Fania

A lover of the rumba and for owning the records, in all the rumbas in the neighborhood that were organized they looked for me to place the music in the famous pick-ups.

Dj Victor Perez
Dj Victor Perez

As a result of that time I liked the environment more, I kept updating with the arrival of the CD, PC and until now the existing audio programs.

I have studied professional audio, radio operator, locution and oratory, and they always hire me to set music for public and private parties, generally in Maracay and Victoria.

Last year as an idea, dominating salsa website was created to organize, promote the Dj’s musicalizers of the region.

Jhon Semeco

Latin America / Venezuela / Caracas

Musical rhythms always attracted and encouraged Jhon Semeco, from a very young age, at the age of 9 he entered the Venezuela Children’s Choir and later the Rondallita, by then he was already singing on television and recording albums, however, his passion was Salsa which is one of the rhythms that he liked the most.

Jhon Semeco
Jhon Semeco

He mentions that “Salsa won among all the musical rhythms because it is in the blood and in the genes, we are Latinos with warm blood, we grew up with flavor and tumbao, it is impossible not to move our feet to the rhythm of a tumbao, the chapeo of a timpani, to the mark of the key and the mintune of the piano, impossible not to give in to the cadence of the bass, the trill of the metals and the voice with the feeling of a singer”.

Jhon Semeco in concert
Jhon Semeco in concert
Jhon Semeco
Jhon Semeco

He was listening to Rubén Blades, Willy Colon, Héctor Lavoe, Latin Dimension, La Salsa Mayor, Ismael Ribera, Estrellas de Fania and the Venezuelan trabuco, among other well-known salsa groups and artists.

Jhon Semeco with Luis Enrique, Juan Carlos Perez Soto and Fernando Osorio
Jhon Semeco with Luis Enrique, Juan Carlos Perez Soto and Fernando Osorio

The artist career is a long and difficult path that they follow, but few achieve success and it is thanks to their great will, struggle and desire to be recognized for their music that they manage to perform, in addition, Jhon Semeco refers that the support and encouragement of moving forward was given to him by friends, artists and colleagues, in this way he achieves perseverance, dedication, determination, seriousness, professionalism, study, love and passion for what he does, thus achieving respect and credibility, thus obtaining the convening power in this music environment.

Jhon Semeco with Ismael Miranda
Jhon Semeco with Ismael Miranda

He is currently creating a new Salsa Romántica album, which he will call “Propias y Ajenas”, this arises at the request of his friends and colleagues, since after writing for many artists and orchestras such as La Dimensión Latina, La Salsa Mayor, Los Satélites , the Combo de Venezuela, The Sopranos, Marcial Izturiz, Wladimir Lozano, among many others…

Decided to sing his songs, accompanied by great composers whom he admires and respects, and whom at some point he saw very far away and today life rewards him by being his friends, giving him the opportunity to interpret his songs, they are nothing more and nothing less than Jorge Luis Piloto, Pedro Azael, Yasmil Marrufo, Alfredo Matheus 10, Juan Carlos Pérez Soto, Enrique Barrios, and Luis Romero, all GRAMMY winners.

Jhon Semeco with Gilberto Santa Rosa
Jhon Semeco with Gilberto Santa Rosa

It is worth mentioning that they are the ones who write for stars like Marc Anthony, Luis Miguel, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Luis Enrique, Franky Ruiz, Roberto Roena, Jerry Rivera, Olga Tañon, Ricardo Montaner, Luis Fonsi, Cristina Aguilera, Ricky Martín, Cristian Castro , Carlos Baute, Prince Royce, Gloria Estefan, José Feliciano, Celia Cruz, Tito Nieves, Mariah Carey, Oscar de León, José Luis Rodríguez, Paulina Rubio, and other well-known artists. Now Jhon with his new album has the privilege of singing songs composed by himself and songs by his friends thanks to friendship and mutual admiration.

Jhon Semeco singing
Jhon Semeco singing
Jhon Semeco - Cover
Jhon Semeco – Cover

“Propias y Ajenas” will have 1 song for each of them, and the rest are songs of their own written with all their heart, most of them are experiences lived or seen in others, this is how the title of their album came about.

Jhon Semeco interview
Jhon Semeco interview
We asked him to know what he recommends to all the new talents who are in the process of training and who are in the arduous struggle to stand out in this environment, and this is how he replied:

“I recommend that you study, that you prepare, that you listen and learn from the best, whatever your musical style, that you say NO to mediocrity, that you have personality and not a copy of another, that you understand that putting on a hat reverse, dark glasses and chains does not make them an artist, that they strive to make good music and not songs with repetitive rhythms and lyrics”

 

For more information, you can contact him through:

  • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/rumbandajhon
  • Correo: [email protected]
Jhon Semeco - soundtracks tv novels
Jhon Semeco – soundtracks tv novels

Yehudry N. Perdomo M.

North America / USA / New York

High performance athlete in rhythmic gymnastics and professional dancer. Bailoxtreme master trainer and salsa fitness instructor. Yehudry was born in Caracas, Venezuela from a family where salsa was heard as the first and even only option. Surrounded by dancers, she began to enjoy this genre as well and began taking dance classes to stop being an amateur and prepare for a professional level.

His first academy was Latin Images, directed by Arelis Guevera and Remmys. After going through several academies, it was at Grizzly Dance Company where he learned about existing dance styles such as in L.A, Puerto Rico and New York, but never forgetting his style. LOVER OF SALSA IN ALL ITS VERSIONS.

Yehudry N. Perdomo M
Yehudry N. Perdomo M

Her salsa roots come from the neighborhood, although thanks to her performance as a gymnast, she maintains a very beautiful and impressive elegance when dancing, merging sport with dance. His first international presentation was in 2013 at the Peru Salsa Congress with the dance company where he began his career.

Today he is dedicated to fitness but his passion for salsa did not end there, as he created a training system called BAILOXTREME where salsa gained strength due to its unique way of training and dancing simultaneously in time of 1. This training system has generated that more people are interested in salsa and in taking classes in various consecrated academies in Venezuela and now internationally.

Today, Yehudry lives in Miami making this project grow but always remembering and respecting those who helped her grow professionally. Below you can learn more about this incredible dancer from a conversation she had with our ISM team…

What led you to choose Latin Images as your first dance academy?

The proximity to my home and the recommendation of dancer friends who are members of that company.

 

Did you always know that your passion for salsa surpassed rhythmic gymnastics?

It is not surpassed today by Salsa Fit or Fitness as it is currently called, it is Latin dance applied to Fitness and Gymnastics is a high-performance sport, I cannot choose between one and the other. Each one has marked a stage in my life. Currently I am not an athlete, now I am a training coach and a professional dancer, what I did was to unite both sports style and culture and the result was excellent.

 

Where do you think your salsa roots came from?

I really think that from my Maternal Grandmother, a beautiful black woman with a religious family, lovers of Afro-descendant music, she was the one who gave all her children that love for Salsa and Afro dances. I even have a musician uncle.

 

How was the creation of Bailoxtreme?

Well it’s very funny, but it was a coincidence. Some ladies were dancing and exercising in a park alone because their coach didn’t show up. And I offered to teach him that day. From there to here, what were 10 ladies became almost 300 in an area where there could only be 100 perhaps.

 

If you could choose a gymnastics idol and a salsa idol, which one would it be?

Definitely Almudena Cid and Nadia Comanecci.

Oscar d’ Leon, Raphy Leavit, Celia Cruz, Tito Puentes.

Bailo Xtreme - Yehudry N. Perdomo M
Bailo Xtreme – Yehudry N. Perdomo M

 

Would you see yourself performing with them doing bailoxtreme?

It would be an honor and an indescribable charge of energy to be able to exercise and learn to dance salsa with live music.

 

What’s next in Yehudry’s life?

I am currently recording a Cuban series that talks about the story of a revolutionary Fidelista who emigrates to Miami. This will be streamed on Netflix.

There I am a dancer who is kidnapped to pay a debt and it is a new challenge. I loved the experience and I’m already thinking about Salsa Pole fit, Something will come out (laughs)

 

For all the people who are reading us, tell them where they could practice this method?

In which dance academies? Both in Caracas and in Miami.

Bailo Xtreme logo - Yehudry N. Perdomo M
Bailo Xtreme logo – Yehudry N. Perdomo M

In Caracas you must communicate with the certified instructors in Bailoxtreme through their social networks or my instagram account @Yehudryfit_dancer

In Miami at Rise Health & Fitness

And Personalized at Country Club Towers gym Hialeah, FL.

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