This year’s Salsa congress was very entertaining indeed. The main theme running through this year’s jack and Jill contest, was taking off shirts! Last year it was talking on cell phones while dancing. In the Jack and Jill contest, where the couples are matched up randomly, there were a few couples that stood out the most. Here are 2 of my favorite Salsa videos.
Shani & Milton – Salsa Dance Video
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The World Super Stars Latin Dance Festival is a yearly event held in Japan that hosts the best dance couples in the world. All the couples do about 5 solo show dances. This year was particularly amazing in the quality of shows. Perhaps, aside from the only new partnership of Slavik and Anna (who were still quite amazing for being so new), all the couples seemed to have gelled together really well.
This year’s line up included:
1. Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis
2. Riccardo Cocchi and and Yulia Zagoroutchenko
3. Slavik kryklyvyy Anna Melnikova
4. Sergey Surkov and Melia
5. Franco Formica & Oxana Lebedew
6. Maxim Kozhevnikov & Beata
Here are some of my favorite dance performances from the 2009 Latin World Stars Dance Festival:
Michael Malitowski and Joanna Leunis – Samba:
Slavik Kryklyvyy is, without a doubt, one of the best male dancers on this planet. He had just recently teamed up with 
Anna Melnikova (who used to dance with Stefano Di Filippo). This is the first video made public of their Rumba show dance. The song is called “I Finally Found Someone” by Bryan Adams & Barbara Streisand, and I think it makes a lot of people wonder whether Slavik has really finally found the one? CONTINUE READING & WATCH VIDEO