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Yanek Revilla, Cuba
Yanek
Revilla was born in Santiago de Cuba where he started his dancing
career in the dance company Luces de América in 1998. He also
worked as a salsa instructor in the Casa de la Cultura in Santiago de
Cuba. In 2002 Revilla started to work as a director, dancer and
choreographer in the dance company Casino.Com. The group won many
prizes in Cuba and Revilla was invited to dance and teach in Europe.
In 2004 Revilla won the world championship of salsa in Italy and the
salsa championship of "Bailar Casino" - a Cuban television
programme - in the categories of best Cuban casino dancer and best
Rueda de casino. The same popular tv programme nominated Revilla's
dance group as the best Rueda de Casino performance of Cuba again the
following year. After that Revilla has
teached and performed in European salsa festivals but lives still in
Cuba.
Tampere International Salsa Festival brings the official casino champion of Cuba, Yanek Revilla, for the first time to Finland to teach advance level Casino, TimbaTon, TrioSalsa and Masters' Casino lessons. Yanek in the programme "Bailar Casino" in Cuba, Havana: Video 1 In a Rueda competition in "Bailar Casino": Video 2 Yanek teaching in a club: Video 3 Yanek teaching in Hamburg: Video 4 Jorge "Camaguey" Izalguez and Yamira Sanchez, Cuba |
Jorge and Yamira in a show
in Munich: 
At
the age of 12 Israel Guitierrez decided to become a dancer and
started takign lessons at the Casa de Cultura in Havana. Five years
later at the age of 17 he started the professional apprenticeship of
becoming a dancer at the Academia de Danza in the famous Tropicana in
Havana. Performances in numerous theatres and stages in Cuba
accompanied him with his dancing career. In 1998 he was discovered by
Nicole Dürr of the Havana Night Show and after two years of
training for his solo role the Musical Havana Night was underway in
Germany. In 1999 he received the award for Best Male Dancer for the
successful Cuban dance show. Since 2000 Gutierrez has not only been
teaching the technique of various dance styles but also actively
passed on the Cuban feeling for rhythm to his dance pupils. His
energetic choreographies and high knowledge of as well as salsa,
classical ballet, modern dance as afro cuban rhythms inspire his
students where ever he teaches. Today he can be also seen on stage
either as a solo dancer or with his group Son Tropical.
Lautaro
Ariño and Candice Leong are both established and well-acknowledged
dancers and dance teachers, who have been teaching and performing at
salsa congresses and events for more than ten years. The strongest
feature of Lautaro's and Candice's teaching is their diversity. Both
Lautaro and Candice dance and teach all styles of salsa, and have a
great pedagogic method that they have developed over the years to
teach each different style. They are based in Zurich Switzerland
where they run their own dance school, Bailattelo.
Michal Sejkora has won several salsa competitions in different
parts of Europe, for example the Prague Latin Award in 2005 and
Hungarian Open Salsa Championship in 2002. These LA-style master formed his own salsa dance group "S.E.C.S. Salsa Team"
