Two salsa teams took the dance floor at the Latin Dance
Club’s Fiesta Ball last Friday to demonstrate a portion of their performances
for upcoming professional workshops.
Explosión
Salsera, OU’s professional team, and Chispa Salsera, OU’s amateur team, have each
been preparing dances with multiple parts for an upcoming salsa congress.
Salsa congresses are workshops that specialize in Latin dancing,
music and include performances by various student teams and professional
dancers, Maritza Rodriguez, the co-founder and member of both salsa teams and a
bioengineering graduate student said.
The performances each
team is working on will be observed by salsa dancers from around the
world.
According to the Houston Salsa Congress – the perspective
congress OU’s teams will be attending – it is one of the largest salsa events in the Southwest and has
professional performers coming from places such as Mexico and Canada.
At the Fiesta Ball, both teams were only able to perform a
portion of their shows because they are still in the process of learning their routine.
Regardless, their performances were a highlight for the ball due to the status
of the teams.
“Trying out for [the teams] is like trying out for a sports
team,” Juan Carlos Silva, the public relations chair for Latin Dance Club and
economics senior said. “Because I’m in charge of publicity [for LDC], I’m not
on one, but I wish I was.”
The next event for Explosión Salsera and Chispa
Salsera is the Houston Salsa Congress on January 17 through the 20 in Houston,
TX.
Miranda,
ReplyDeleteI love this video. Here is how to get better: When editing music make sure everything matches up. Notice how his lips are not singing exactly what we are hearing. The human mind tries to make those two line up and it will never work when they are out of sync like this. Beautiful video --now, just get smarter on the editing end to make all that hard work in the field look effortless.
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