We are Salseros and Salseras who do not care whether you dance on the 1, 1.5, 2, or 3 beat. We want to share Salsa news from our local community with the rest of the world. We recognize that there are many different styles and that their cultural characteristics are drawn from local or regional influences.
The most recognizable styles are Cuban, New York/Puerto Rican, Miami, Colombian, and the Ballroom derived LA Style. There are those who speak in terms of Salsa as being studio based and so they consider anything from outside this framework to be "Street Salsa". Salsa can be original "street", culturally based (“Afro-Cuban"), community based "traditional", or codified as it is learned in a dance studio. Our interest is to increase the wealth of Salsa dance movement by promoting individual expressions as well as expanding on the already codified set of steps found in traditional or studio based instruction.
We believe that the best dancer is not the one who can perform the most steps from any given set of codified steps but rather the individual who brings out his own contribution to the dance while remaining within the bounds of Salsa traditions and the understanding of it's musical rhythms. The following people use the dance floor: the dancers, the performers, the entertainers, and the competitors. There are those who can dance to almost any Salsa song and adjust accordingly to its beat, style, and cultural expression. And there are those who are limited to dancing mostly through rehearsed steps. Whether we dance through spontaneous, original, or rehearsed dance movement is irrelevant, the question is, are we having fun dancing our form of Salsa expression?
Please join us in our effort to find even the smallest Salsa community out there in the world. If we shed our national, ethnic, religious, and class trappings, we will find that dance (Salsa) gives us a natural and human link. Que viva la humanidad! Que viva la Salsa!
JOSEPH CONDE