Salsa is more than dance music. For Latino communities in the United States and the world, it’s a soundtrack of identity, ...

At the very beginning of the evening on the New Haven Green on Friday night, percussionist Nino Ciampa asked a fundamental question: what is salsa? “Salsa is flavor and spice,” he said. “Salsa is ...

His name is synonymous with the business of salsa dancing. Albert Torres is a former drug addict and petty criminal who escaped from a dead-end life by becoming a music entrepreneur -- please don’t ...

TOKYO — A pulsating mambo fills the air at a cavernous club near Tokyo Bay. “Ayyy-esssooo!” the song calls in exhortation as a sea of sweaty dancers roll their hips and swirl into turns with ...

In the promotional video for the Miami Salsa Congress, a man dips a woman and spins her around while trumpets call out to the dancers. The woman hooks onto her partner and shakes her body ferociously ...

Introduction: a call for rhythm and power / Derrick Le̤n Washington -- On social dancing and social movements: salsa and resistance / Sydney Hutchinson -- Bailando salsa en la sala: how we learned to ...

A bit like the disputed term “jazz”, salsa is less a rhythm or genre and more “a concept, the result of a way of approaching music from the Latin American cultural perspective”, Colón once said.

It's the second night of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. Lighting candles each night is a central holiday tradition, and music can be a big part of the celebration, too. In Milwaukee, that ...

After almost 60 years as a Chicagoan, Juan Montenegro, 73, moved to Sarasota with his wife Claire in 2017. Energetically fit and full of el fuego, on one typically sun-soaked Sarasota day, Montenegro ...

In general, dancing offers several benefits both physical and mental and even spiritual. But each rhythm has its particular and specific virtues. Salsa dancing is a liberating therapy. It helps you to ...

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