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The term "salsa" was coined by Johnny Pacheco in the 1960s in New York, as an umbrella term for Cuban dance music being played in the city at the time. [2] Salsa as a dance emerged soon after, being a combination of mambo (which was popular in New York in the 1950s) as well as Latin dances such as Son and Rumba as well as American dances such as swing, hustle, and tap.
Glorya Kaufman has made many donations to advance dance education, including to the University of California, Los Angeles and the Juilliard School. She chose to donate to the University of Southern California so she could create a Bachelor of Fine Arts dance program at a private university with excellent control over quality, and to help ...
The Colburn School is a private performing arts school in Los Angeles with a focus on music and dance. It consists of four divisions: the Conservatory of Music, Music Academy, Community School of Performing Arts and the Trudl Zipper Dance Institute. Founded in 1950, the school is named after its principal benefactor, Richard D. Colburn. [2]
The Millennium Dance Complex is a dance studio founded in 1992 and located in the NOHO Arts District of Los Angeles until 2016, when it moved to Studio City. Dance Teacher magazine called Millennium "...one of the top schools in the country." [1] Millennium offers daily drop-in classes in jazz dance, hip-hop, tap, and contemporary dance ...
Albert Torres (June 14, 1956 – May 25, 2017) was an international salsa dance promoter from Los Angeles. He is known for being the organizer of the LA Salsa Fest, [1] [2] the longest running salsa congress in the US, [3] as well as one of the organizers of the World Salsa Championships and later the World Latin Dance Cup.
The first was the Bacardi Salsa Congress "World Salsa Congress" that was held in Valencia (Spain) from October 20 to 24, 1999, organized by Manuel Mascarell and Fermín Olaya, some that followed from 2002 were the International Salsa Congress of the United Kingdom in London, the Salsa Symposium (Madrid), Rome, Hamburg and the Swiss Salsa ...
Ted Shawn and Ruth St. Denis in 1916.. The Denishawn School of Dancing and Related Arts, founded in 1915 by Ruth St. Denis and Ted Shawn in Los Angeles, California, helped many perfect their dancing talents and became the first dance academy in the United States to produce a professional dance company. [1]
Dawson was a Top 4 finalist on FOX's TV show So You Think You Can Dance, after teaching for ten years. She then performed and worked internationally while remained based in Los Angeles. She appeared in MTV's "MADE" (Season 10, Ep.39) in August 2010 and performed with the Cirque Du Soleil in 2011.