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Vancouver Rueda Festival, April 9 - 11, 2010
The festival is finally here!!!
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Performer
Salsa Con Rumba Dance Company was created by Christian & Dana Camarena in 2004. Both of which have spent the last 10 years traveling & studying everything from NY style in Puerto Rico, Flamenco in Sevilla, to Casino in Mexico. The whole thing started because after all this traveling around & learning, there was no one to dance with when we got home! What started as a few salsa classes in 2004 has turned into the biggest Latin dance school in Eastern Washington!
TANGA is Vancouver’s premier Afro-Cuban dance orchestra, bringing the exciting sounds of salsa dura, latin funk and caribbean jazz to audiences across the West Coast. This high-octane music ensemble has been packing dance floors since 2005 with their mix of original music, popular hits and classic songs from Latin America and the Caribbean. Tanga is an all-star band made up of Canada’s top musicians whose music fuses a diverse array of musical, ethnic and cultural influences. Drawing inspiration from bands like Irakere, Spanish Harlem Orchestra and the Afro-Cuban All Stars, they blend smoldering grooves, percussion, sizzling brass, and fiery vocal vocals, spicing it up with a touch of their own west coast flavour.
Workshops: Bootyology, Beginner Bootcamp 3, Intermediate Casino Salsa - Turn Patterns
From Portland to Philadelphia, to Honolulu to Houston - Mike and Simona are spreading their love of Casino Salsa.
They started Rumbanana Salsa Group (www.rumbanana.org) in January 2000 as a way to promote Cuban Salsa dancing in the Pacific Northwest. Both have been dancing, performing, choreographing and teaching Salsa for more than 12 years. Their focus for the past 8 years has been Casino Style Salsa. By carefully studying Cuban dancers, as well as key dancers from Miami, Mike and Simona have brought true Casino Salsa to hundreds of people around the world.
Their teaching ranges from small classes to 100+ people workshops. Not only are their workshops and classes filled with meaningful information, but they also make it fun and exciting to learn.
Workshops: Advanced Rueda, Body Movement and Footwork for Men and Women, Reggeaton
Born in Havana Cuba, Marcos Ravelo, owner and founder of Havana Cuban Dance Studio, choose to make Calgary, Alberta his home in 2001. The transition from Cuba to Canada took place with nothing but high hopes of carrying on the long standing family tradition of sharing the gift of authentic Cuban dance with others.
Marcos has taught Salsa, Rumba, Guaguanco, Cha Cha Cha, Casino Rueda, Reggaeton, Bachata, Merengue workshops across Canada in Cities like Montreal, Toronto, Saskatoon, Edmonton, Vancouver etc, He has brought his style of dance to cities in USA like Miami, San Francisco, Portland, Las Vegas and foreign countries like Mexico, Jamaica, Hawaii, and Bahamas. His latest work was at the Calgary’s International Salsa Congress 2010 and San Francisco International Rueda Festival 2010, where his lessons were taken by hundreds of students and dancers including the best Salseros and Casineros in the world.
Workshops: Afro-Cuban Movement, Cha-cha-cha
Chen Lizra was named in Havana "La Cubanita de Israel" for her ability to dance like a Cuban woman and live inside the culture as if she was one. Chen studies Cuban dance professionally each year with teachers from the National School of Arts (La ENA) and the National Folklore Group of Cuba (FNC). She trains in both modern Cuban dances and Afro-Cuban folklore, and travels to share her knowledge and transmit the sensuality and sabor. She dances Cuban Rumba, Son, Casino, Rueda, Reggaeton, Cha-Cha-Cha, Mambo and Afro-Cuban Movements.
Chen's first passion was gymnastics and as a child she trained and performed for ten year, earning her the amazing ability to dive into an art form making it her own. This was her first encounter with movement and dance. When she moved on, for years she searched for a new passion which would grab her the same way. It was only in 2000 that she discovered Cuban dance and fell in love with it. But it was only when she started traveling to Cuba and discovered all of the Afro-Cuban dance styles and the depth of the art form in Cuba that hooked her for life. Ever since she has devoted her life and passion, through her company Latidos Productions (www.latidosproductions.com), to promoting Cuban dance and exposing more and more people around the globe to the magic and art of seduction.