La vie de danseur part 1 and part 2

Baila Productions au Festival de Salsa de Québec – La vie de danseurs part 1


Baila Productions au congrès de Salsa de Toronto – La vie de danseurs part 2

Ilias Benz

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Baila Productions Dance Awards Part 2

Category Salsa Original

You like it or hate it! I love it!

Category Salsa Retro

Eddie is the main man

Category Best Salsa Dance Troupe

Yamulee

Tropical Gem form Italy

Hacha y Machete

SantoRico

City Dance Corps from Toronto

Category Baladi

Rachel Bryce is mesmerizing

Category Tango

Category Salsa Champions

Oliver and Luda Fast and Furious

Category Best Salsa Duo performance

Juan Matos doing is thing with Burju

Frankie’s Palomilla all time favorite

Junior and Emily… the intro is a Killer

Adolfo y Melissa… I’ve been dancing for years and still don’t understand his turn patterns

Another view of his crazy patterns

Category Fastest MF in town

Frankie alone raising the roof

If Frankie’s the fastest footwork dude Juan Matos is the coolest

here’s Juan at his best

Category best show I ever seen

Grupo Corpo.  These guys can out perform any one, this is the best dance show I ever saw live!

I hope this inspires you,

Ilias

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The Baila Productions Dance Awards part 1

Thought out the years I collected dance clips on youtube on different styles. I just love to watch performers on top of their game and also choreographers that come up with original material in all fields of dance.  Here’s part one of the Baila Productions Dance Awards.

Category best dance performances ever

The nicolas bothers are the bomb. They are the ones who taught Michael Jackson how to dance.

Category Ballroom

For their originality

This one I can watch 10 000 times

Category Salsa Freestyle

Frankie is the main man

Category Hip Hop

Check more clips of this guy on youtube

Category Contemporary

Category I cannot do this

Category what the f#$%

Category Swing

In my other life I would have been a swing dancer!

There’s so much more out there, part 2 is coming up.. feel free to contribute!

Ilias

www.bailaproductions.com

Salsa Queens

We held another Salsa Queens ladystyling workshop at our Baila Productions Latin Dance School with the best Salsa Ladies in Montreal. I was very proud to have these artist under our roof.  Everybody that attended this workshop had the chance to rub shoulders with artists at the top of their game.  Because it’s lady styling week at our studio, I decided to share with you some videos of amazing Salsa Ladies around the world.

I’ve been dancing for about 3 years when I got the chance to dance with Amanda Estillo. I met her in a club in Montreal after a workshop she has done here.  I taught she was some sort of salsa goddess cause I was petrified to ask her to dance… but I did.  I only thing I could remember doing is cross body leads… I was paralyzed and in admiration while I was dancing with her. She’s a monster on the dance floor… in my eyes she is and always will be the best ladystylist in the world!

Griselle was one of the first girlz on the salsa world scene

Baso  Ahtoy  has crazy control on her moves and killer body waves

Ania has crazy moves

The official partner of the mambo king himself Eddie Torres: Melissa Rosado

Gosia very very smooth styling

There’s of course many more great dancers out there, but I hope this will inspire you… to explore Salsa with Style…

Ilias

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Salsa Men Styling

What is Salsa Men Styling? Let me answer briefly: It’s the way that man expresses his Salsa.  There’s different way’s to go about that and also different styles. But the main aspect of the men styling takes root in afro-cuban dancing… were the guy has a very traditional role in the couple dance.  I like to tell my students:  Use Antonio Banderas as the ultimate image for a Salsa Male Dancer!!!

Throught out my evolution in Salsa I inspired myself with tons of great male Salsa Dancers. The Best way to get a good idea of what a typical man looks like on the dance floor is to watch other men at the top of their salsa game. Here’s a couple of guys that symbolize well the role of the man in this dance.

Juan Matos… probably the fastest dancer I know… this guy is lightning on the dance floor… and Mikael Fonts Afro at its Best

Tito is my Idol I Loooooove  watching him dance!

Frankie Martinez is considered by many to be the best Salsa Dancer in the World

Eddie Torres has been Salsa dancing for more than 40 years, his energy and crazy patterns are his signature

The old school Mambo Way

Fernando Sosa from the Italian Tropical Gem Dance Troupe is the fastest spinner I know… his Salsa style is very sharp a little on the hip hop style

Hope all this inspires you guys,

Cheers,

Ilias

www.bailaproductions.com