Salsa in the City

The trend in schools currently shows that women are outperforming men. In the business place we are seeing more women managers than ever before.  It is indeed a time where strong women are in the leadership role.  There is nothing wrong with this since women make up a large part of society and their contribution can be very much felt.  The challenge that lies ahead is producing great leaders out of men in this information age.

Recently there has been an up surge of on2 in the city of Philadelphia and the environs.  This brings the question “Does Dancing on2 make you a better dancer?”  This is not a new question but I wanted to put my spin on it having been exposed to the two styles of dance.  For anyone new to this topic, let just define Salsa as breaking on the 1 beat hence called on1 and On2 breaking on the 2 beat.  This is commonly called Mambo or NY Style.

Mike Andino is one of the original founders of Art In Motion, the oldest active instructor at La Luna Studio, and promoter of 2 of the most successful nightclubs in Philadelphia (Alfies and Brasils).  Mike has packed dance classes at la luna and at his own Estilo dance studio.  Mike has been rated the man to watch back in 2005 and now 4 years later Mike is only getting ...

Brasil’s Nite Club has been on the map of the Philadelphia Salsa Community for quite some time now.  I’ve been teaching Wednesday night Salsa class before all the dancing starts for over 6 years and would like to offer some tips/trivia to make dancing at Brasil’s on Wednesday night more pleasurable ... 

I have wrestled with the question of becoming a good lead from the first day I started my basic step and I still ask myself this question every time I am getting dressed to go out dancing.  I am not going to get into what is the definition of a good lead here but I can maybe tackle that question in a Blog later on.  In this article I was thinking I wanted to write something that dancers could have as useful and practical landmarks along the salsa journey that steers them in the ...

Well for starters she is exotic as hell and quite a world traveler; I remember I first saw her in Trinidad. It was about 11pm and I was on a bar of a beach club called “Anchorage” where the Latin beats being played were penetrating over the waters of the ocean. The dance floor was fairly open then I noticed her for the first time. She was about 16 years old, long black hair, young and beautiful.