World Salsa Championships
World Salsa Championships ( dt. "Salsa World Cup") is a salsa - dance competition , which claims to be the official World Cup dance salsa to be.
The tournament was held for the first time from December 14th to 17th, 2005 in the Orleans Arena, Las Vegas and will take place annually from then on at the same time. The initiator of the project is Albert Torres, a well-known representative of the salsa dance scene, who owns the film production company Albert Torres Productions u. a. hosts the annual West Coast Salsa Congress in Los Angeles .
The last World Salsa Championships 2009 took place from 16. – 19. December 2009 in Fort Lauderdale ( Florida ).
recognition
(As of May 2006)
From an organizational point of view, Salsa was a completely untouched field until 2005. In the 1990s, numerous so-called “salsa congresses” appeared around the world, which are commercially oriented and offer workshops and dance performances over several days. So far, however, there has been no club or association structure, as is common in other dances (see e.g. German Dance Sports Association ).
In the past, many salsa dance tournaments were held that gave themselves officiality. Since there are no guidelines or competence tests without an umbrella organization, in principle anyone can call a national, international or even world championship. For example, the German Amateur Tournament Office organizes German amateur salsa championships without the involvement of well-known experts in salsa; The tournament office is a specialist department of the professional association of German dance teachers, but very few active German salsa dance teachers are members of this association, not to mention foreign ones.
There is a difference here to the World Salsa Championships: Albert Torres is seen by many as an expert on salsa who has enough specialist knowledge and organizational talent to make the tournament a “real” world championship. Torres' authority was apparently (or apparently?) Recognized in 2006 when qualification rounds for the world championship taking place at the end of the year were proclaimed at salsa congresses around the world (e.g. in Germany at the International Salsafestival in Hamburg).
Salsa is still not considered a dance sport and has no organizations. There are no dance classes at the World Salsa Championships, no catalog of figures and no fixed guidelines for the judges. Obviously the Los Angeles style predominates; H. Hip movements are rarely danced in contrast to Cuban style.
Results
1st World Championship 2005
The first World Salsa Championships were held from December 14th to 17th, 2005 in the Orleans Arena in Las Vegas. The dancers competed in five categories: The categories “On 1” and “On 2” divided the couples according to rhythmic criteria, figures above shoulder height were prohibited here, figures above shoulder height were also allowed in the “cabaret” group; Formations of 6 to 20 couples against each other and in the youth group young people aged 13 or under. The chosen world champions were:
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3rd Salsa World Championship 2008
The 3rd Salsa World Championship was canceled for economic reasons.
4th Salsa World Championship 2009
The 4th Annual World Salsa Championships (official name) took place from 16. – 19. December 2009 in Ford Lauderdale, Florida , with dancing couples from 40 countries. The dancing took place in 4 competitions with the following results:
- Category Salsa on 1 - World Champions: Liz Lira and Christian Oviedo from Los Angeles
- Category Salsa on 2 - World Champions: Luis Aguilar and Anya Katsevman from New York City
- Salsa Cabaret category - World champions: Jonathan Landa and Jenny Rodriguez from Cali , Colombia
- Category Salsa Team - World Champions: Luis Aguilar and Anya Katsevman from New York City
Particularly noteworthy from a German point of view: The dance couple Anne Böhm and Anichi Bauer (Anne & Anichi) from Freiburg took 2nd place in the Salsa on 2 category.
Web links
- World Salsa Championships - Official website of the Salsa World Championships
- All reports from the Salsa World Championship 2009
- The most important videos from the Salsa World Championship 2009
- Albert Torres' website for the 2nd Salsa World Championship ( Memento from January 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today )
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- ↑ a b Karsten Heimberger: 4th Salsa World Championship 2009 in Florida . In: Salsango - online magazine for salsa, tango, lifestyle and fitness .
- ↑ www.salsapower.com - World-Wide Salsa Events Listings ( Memento from May 6, 2006 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Tournament regulations ( Memento from December 21, 2005 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Karsten Heimberger: Salsa World Champion 2009 at the Salsa World Championships . In: Salsango - online magazine for salsa, tango, lifestyle and fitness .