Today's Quote:
"After every rainstorm, there is
a beautiful rainbow."
-Edie, The Salsa FREAK | Salsaweb's most prestigious award for Excellence in content, and design goes to Mr. Ray Biss. Website address: Check it out! | | Freak News | | News Update from the nation's Capital, Washingon DC... The International Salsaweb Convention, An INCREDIBLE success! April 28th - May 2nd! Click Here for Convention Commentary by the Salsa FREAK continued... | | Tip of the Month | Click Here.. for this month's Tip-of-the-Month...
HOW TO PACK FOR A DANCE TRIP LIKE THE CONVENTION!!!!
(Like, oh my God.. what should I WEAR??????) | | Where in the world is the Freak | Look out Chicago...
..here we come!!! Truly looking forward to meeting all the great dancers in Chicago that we've been hearing about! Some people have told us the Salsa scene is HUGE, others have told us it's small.... so which is it? Raul and I can't wait to meet and dance with everyone there! See you in June! Click Here for Pittsburgh Story! | | Question of the Week | | Why do some dance partners no longer enjoy dancing together at nightclubs? Continued | | Translation Service | |
| | Welcome | | Hello Everyone and Welcome! This is the Edie, The Salsa FREAK, welcoming you to the First Annual International Salsaweb Convention!
This event was unique in that it was the world’s first Convention held and created by an Internet website. The invitations and coordination was done entirely via email and cyberspace. Within seconds of placing the information on Salsaweb, hundreds of people from all over the world started inquiring about this extraordinary event. Thousands have now seen it, and already inquiring about next year’s convention in New York City! | | Whats New! | Just Released!!
Cool Moves™ "Revealed" Volume II Instructional Video !! Now, sixty minutes of sixty COOL moves... (a "Move a Minute!") described and demo'd in full detail to slamming Salsa Music (no more Clave!!)! Click Here! Click Here for Video Testimonials!! | | Interviews/Stories | | Click Here for and in-depth interview with Professional Inline Skater - turned Salsero, Mr. Randy Newman Click Here for the untold "Inside Story" of what it was really like to be on tour with Team Salsaweb, on their Euro-Tour, 1999 | | Other Events | | More events |
| | Feedback | | Click Here for a beautiful email from my friend Reza, whom met in Oslo, Norway. Reza recently spent about three months in New York, studying with the Master, Mr. Eddie Torres, and his lovely wife, Maria. | | Salsafreak Workshops | Salsa FREAK 1999 World-Tour Workshop Schedule continued | | The Salsaweb Mission | Join Salsaweb Magazine in its Mission to Promote Salsa Music and Dancing all over the World... The "International" impact Salsaweb is causing throughout the world is explosive - much bigger than we had realized. Continued | | Dear Edie | | "Dear Edie, I'm disenchanted with the Scene Edie...what should I do?" "Dear Edie,, I am a natural born Salsera in my mid 30s who has been dancing Salsa all my life!! ..... I'm looking for a partner....but I am married.... and my husband doesn't dance...am I doomed?" - Check these answers in this week's "Dear Edie" column |
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| Freak News Continued | | Our primary goal was to bring people together from all over the world who read Salsaweb Magazine on regular basis, and have benefited from it in one way or another. We want to continue to help make Salsa the hottest partner dance of the millennium by promoting choreographers, performers, instructors like this year’s Lifetime Achievement Award winners, the King of Mambo, Mr. Eddie Torres and the Queen of Salsa, Ms. Celia Cruz. We hope that you enjoyed this year’s event. We thank you from the bottom of our hearts, for supporting Salsaweb Magazine, The World’s Largest Latin Entertainment Online Magazine.
A Typical Salsa FREAK, "Hollywood Style" Event... ...where the performers and teachers are treated like Movie Stars!!! Limousines, makeup artists, massage therapists, hair stylists... all for the performers and instructors... we want to make them feel like MOVIE STARS!!! This year, the convention will be in DC, next year in New York, the year after, ROME ITALY!!!!
Eddie Torres the Mambo King received this year's First ever Lifetime Achievement Award for Dance Instruction, performance, and dance team choreography
Convention Instructor Interviews...
Susan Sparks (France) and Rene Gueits (Miami), Joby and Luis Vazquez (Los Angeles), and Josie Neglia (Los Angeles) were just some of the instructors who taught at the First Annual International Salsaweb Convention! - Click here for Interview with Susan Sparks, Master Instructor from Paris, France
- Click here for Interview with Rene Gueits, Master Instructor, Casino Rueda from Miami
- Click here for what it was like in Japan with the Salsa Brava Dance Company! (interview with Janette Valenzuela, "Salsera Con Shoes"...
- Terrible news about Josie Neglia's dance partner, Mr. Peta Siddall. Click here for their interview last year.
| | Salsafreak Workshop Schedule Continued | - Pittsburgh, PA: May 13th - May 16th, TWO Workshops - Saturday Salsa and Sunday Cha Cha: Partner Work and Styling for both Men & Women. Details on Pittsburgh Page
| | Salsawebs Mission Continued | | Salsaweb Magazine's own Edie, the Salsa FREAK has personally traveled with a dance team, and taught in ten different countries throughout Europe, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and in major cities all over the United States primarily to promote the growth of Latin Entertainment via the Salsaweb hub. Future promotions in their planning stages include Russia, Seoul Korea, Africa, South America, the Far East, the Indian Ocean, New Zealand, and Australia. Contact us if you'd like for us to come to your country or city for a write-up of your instructors and growing Salsa Scene! | | Questions of the Week Continued | | Why do some dance partners no longer enjoy dancing together at nightclubs? I've always wondered why some dance partners argue at nightclubs, or get on each other's nerves during social dancing. I've seen arguments, fights, slaps, walkouts... you name it, I've seen it. "Edie, when I'm dancing socially with my regular dance partner, I don't feel as relaxed... she's always correcting me, or commenting on how I lead this, or that, or how we could have done such and such better, in the middle of the song, or right afterward. I don't enjoy dancing with her like I used to.... what happened to us?" THE ANSWER: If you don't practice enough "outside" of the nightclub scene with your partner, your social nightclub dancing ends up being your practice session. THIS SPOILS THE FUN OF NIGHTCLUB DANCING Answer: Practice together MORE OFTEN somewhere OTHER than nightclubs. Make a promise to not correct or comment negatively or critically about your partner's dancing at the nightclub. You'll have a BLAST dancing together socially. Just practice more. Don't use the nightclub to practice. It will ruin your fun, and put stress on your relationship. | | Other Events Continued | Razz M Tazz Video Review
Here is Addie Rodriguez schedule for the next month and a 1/2.
April 16-24--Canada
April 27-May12--Italy
May 15-May24--Cuba yes...CUBA!!! "THE REASON I DANCE IS JUST TO KEEP MY WIFE HAPPY IN THIS CRAZY WORLD
I am Forever Grateful"
Angel Rodriguez Mr. Razzmtazz
Founder of RazzM'Tazz Dance Company
President of RazzM'Tazz Corp. |
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