About World Salsa Competition
About WSC | WorldSalsaCompetition.com
“We aim to showcase and provide a virtual stage for
Salsa Competitions
anywhere Salseros breathe and dance”
Got a Salsa Competition? Let us know so that we may promote it and/or post it online.
About Salsa Competition
There have been many Salsa Competitions that have come and gone. Some of the top dance competitions are:
1 David Nieto’s Top Male Salsa Competition and Top Female Salsa Competition are usually held in Steven’s Stakehouse in City of Commerce
(I can personally recommend this even as being the most authentic competition in Los Angeles county.)
2. US Salsa Open —>> Website US SALSA OPEN
3. Hustle and Salsa Competition —>> Website Hustle and Salsa
4. Mayan World Salsa Competition —>> Was cancelled in 2010
5. British Open Salsa Championships 2011 —>> British Salsa Competition6. The Granada Salsa Competition 2011 —>> Website Granada Salsa Competition
If you want to post your info on this website, feel free to send me an email to salsaclass [at] aol [dot] com
We want WorldSalsaCompetitions.com to be a website that will be fun, useful, entertaining, and educational.
First of all, we will first aim at organizing Salsa Competitions in order to showcase the finalists on the website. Second, we will partner up with Clubs who want to promote a Salsa Competitions at their place. Third, we will post any competitions held anywhere on the planet. Fourth, it is my dream that in the near future, WorldSalsaCompetitions.com will showcase truly international Salsa Competitions. These Salsa Competitions will be judges by at least three judges.
For those living in close to LA, I will be able to film the dance on location.
One observation which is important to point out is that Salsa has different interpretations within local cultures in Latin America. So with this in mind, we will organize our official Salsa Competitions with a style in mind that will have preference within that particular event. The most common and obvious Salsa styles are: Cuban Salsa, Puerto Rican or New York Salsa, LA Salsa, and regular Salsa which is sometimes called Street Salsa.
There have been enough arguments, opinions, and suppositions as to where Salsa comes from. I do not wish to join the ranks of theorists and experts but I will say that Salsa might never have come around if African slavery had not come to this continent. So the natural place for Salsa to trace its roots would be the port of entry for most of the early slaves who were brought to this continent, namely Cuba. It is in Cuba that you find the sounds of Son, Timba, Rumba, Charanga, Cha Cha Cha, Guaganco, Mambo, and the Afro-Cuban sounds which can not be mistaken for commercial Salsa. The next natural place to look for the Salsa roots would be Puerto Rico and of course New York. Salsa to those on the mainland has various and different interpretations of sounds and dance. Colombian interpretation of Salsa might scare people who are not used to dancing close and personal. Cubans mix their dance with all the richness that can be found in the various dance forms on the island. New York and Los Angeles have produced their own versions of Salsa dancing. I have been told that NY owes it influence to Mambo and here in L.A. I have observed that L.A. Style sprung straight from Ballroom dancing.
It has been my observation that there are many natural dancers who are not inclined to participate in Salsa Competitions. When you think of all that there is to lose in competing and performing for recognition or for a living, I would understand anyone who feels that competitions are a distraction from the real dancing. My intention is to provide a stage for people who have fun dancing and for people who want to experience dancing under the spot light.
We are open to positive and constructive criticism connected to www.WorldSalsaCompetition.com
To post your Salsa Competition event email me at: salsaclass [at] aol [dot] com