Jamaican Salsero in L.A.

Non-Salsa Dance Videos

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Here is a little selection of some of the pics I took while I was back home in Jamaica. Most of them are from North-West Coast of the island. That is where most of the popular beaches/resorts can be found. For someone who is not a fan of water, I was in it a lot [...]

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Today is the 21st birthday of the Rueda in the Park’s founder, Tania. She kicked off here celebration last night at Silhouette’s. (She will be celebrating again tonight at Tatou and on Sunday at Rueda in the Park). The majority of the Rueda in the Park family turned out to celebrate with her. There [...]

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Last night was the fourth staging of the annual Night of Cultura. The title of this year’s show was Guillermo’s Travels. After being a part of the show last year, I had many friends who were in this year’s production. I was most impressed by the overall production of this year’s show. Apart from the [...]

Here are a couple of clips I recorded from the 30th Annual Samahang Pilipino Cultural Night “Balikbayan: The Journey Home”.

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It was easily the best salsa birthday party I have been to at Silhouette’s. Salser@s were all decked out in pink to celebrate Anna’s birthday. I even bought my first ever pink shirt for the occasion (and wore it fresh out of the box I might add ). This was also our chance to [...]

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Below are a couple of videos I shot at the 2007 CalTech Dance Show. The first one is the Salsa/Reggaeton number featuring Corinne, Sarah, Patricia, Gwyneth, Monica, Elena, Nanor, and Saina. It was choreographed by Corinne, Sarah and Gwyneth. The second one is a Belly dance routine performed by Elena. The pictures I have here [...]

On Sunday, I went to the BBQ and going away party for fellow salsero Nelson who is moving to Montana. Celestria performed her salsa routine that she also performed at her Sex Objects Show (video below). Pictures from William are here. Pictures from Raul are here. Raul also has a video of Nelson’s going away [...]

I went to see my fellow salsera Celestria perform as part of the “Sex Objects” show at On the Rox on Saturday. The show was described as an “in-depth class in the objectification of women”. The show was a “burlesque-flavored revue” and featured belly dancers, striptease, Tahitian and belly dancers. Below are a three of [...]

Last night Alex da Silva celebrated his birthday at the Palm Terrace Restaurant and Club. There were a few performances to mark the occasion. Although there wasn’t a performance by Alex himself, we were treated to a swing performance, a salsa routine and some free-style break dancing. The videos are shown below.

Swing Performance at [...]

After a long session of recording some new videos for the Rueda Moves library, Corinne and I decided to have some fun. We figured that since we have been dancing Cuban Salsa so long we should be able to do it blindfolded. Well we took the challenge and went for it. The goal was do [...]