| Welcome to CASA de la SALSA Where Mambo comes home in New York City CASA checks out a new dance night - every 4th Friday of the month for the first part of 2010. Come out on
Friday February 26 from 10 pm to 2 am CASA will introduce "CASA's Friday Night Shine Club" @ DanceStudio101 Early in the social, Almyra will teach a 32-count shine pattern, from 10:30 to 10:50pm, so you can rock it for the rest of the evening!
If you are interested in joining CASA's 1st SHINE CONTEST, please contact me - you get free admission, & a chance to win $50.
Only 4 contestants a night - only non-professionals please!
EMAIL ALMYRA AT almyra88@hotmail.com
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO JOINED US FOR LAST YEARS' CENTRAL PARK SALSA - IT WAS AN AMAZING DAY, AND CARLOS AND I FELT SO HONORED THAT YOU CAME TO BE PART OF IT!!
SO MAKE SURE YOU CAN JOIN US AT OUR 10TH YEAR IN 2010 AT CENTRAL PARK'S BANDSHELL, DATES TO BE ANNOUNCED FOR 2010!!
WATCH OUT FOR THE VIDEOS TO BE POSTED HERE AND ON YOUTUBE OF VARIOUS PERFORMANCES FROM THAT DAY ...
________ VIEW UPLOADED VIDEOS OF PAST CASA PERFORMANCES HERE. ------------------------
| Thanks to everyone who came to the first social in 2010 and made it great!! Next 2010 event is... CASA Winter Salsa Jam II SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20 9PM TO 1AM @DANCESTUDIO 101 101 Lafayette Street 2nd Floor $15 ADMISSION Almyra will be the Featured DJ once again! and there will be performances BY
MAMBO BRAVO & LATIN REFLECTIONS See you then!
HOPE YOU'RE ALL HAVING A GREAT NEW DECADE!
SEE PHOTO GALLERY IN TOP BAR FOR GROUP PHOTOS OF THE "NIGHT OF CACHAO" GROUP AND PHOTOS FROM THE SOCIAL ... ========================== JOIN US. GO TO OUR SOCIALS LINK FOR MORE DETAILS
Check out these past CASA performances videos for a brief "retrospective" of the CASA family...
Cachao tribute - Lindo Yambu and Trombon Criollo (Thanks, Miulina)
May 16, 2009
Central Park, Baby!! 2008's performance of Haitian Lady (Poncho Sanchez) - thanks, Gwen!
Night in Tunisia - CASA Student Group
RUMBA CAPELLA - CASA Pro group
CARLOS KONIG - performs an improvised routine For more videos, go to VIDEOS Go to the CASA Socials page for details on the Early Bird special! |
For more photos, go to "CASA Socials" on Amir Shimoni's website www.mambopics.com. 
| DON'T MISS CASA DE LA SALSA's next social on Saturday, May 16, 2009 at Dancestudio101! Go to CASA SOCIALS for details, and don't forget to contact me about advance tickets. |
Casa de la Salsa is a “dance group” of individuals who are active in New York City’s unique and diversified salsa community. However, we are not simply a student group or a professional group, or any kind of group you can easily label with a set style, demographic, uniform taste or look. We are dancers, choreographers, writers, directors, performers, musicians, teachers, students, researchers, technicians and/or artists and we are from 5 continents; 4 boroughs and New Jersey; mixed-race, mixed-ethnicity, mixed-age, mixed-background. We live, work and dream in New York City – the pavement, concrete jungle and hyper-active rhythm of this island is our home. The group has performed all over the NYC area at benefits, various NYC clubs, events and socials, and Salsa Congresses in New York, Connecticut and Palm Springs! We’ve performed at events for HBO, the UN, C-N-B-Cn, Isabella Nursing Home, The Ralph Bunche School, Almyra’s Tsunami Fundraiser, Claudine Curry’s Mambo2Chacha Socials, Hope Iniciativa to benefit Casa Bernabe, and Patricia Chao’s book release party at La Nacional for “Mambo Peligroso.”
JOIN US ON MYSPACE! Our friends include some of New York City's top musicians and dancers, and we want our dance/music community to grow and network with one another. |
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Casa de la Salsa’s founder, director and choreographer for the past 5 years is Almyra. She is a professional salsa/mambo instructor raised in New York City and has been teaching salsa for over 8 years. She performs with the Carlos Konig Dance Company, and was co-founder and dancer in the all-female Latin dance ensemble called Dulce Bembe, directed by Ruby Espinosa. She has performed at most of the major New York City salsa venues, including Lincoln Center, as well as international salsa congresses and events in the Dominican Republic, New York City, Paris, and Rome. Almyra also organizes dance events and charity fundraisers, co-organizes a popular yearly dance event at Central Park’s Bandshell with veteran NYC teacher and performer Carlos Konig, and teaches workshops and styling classes. Her latest personal project involves fusing health education with salsa dance classes in the Washington Heights community – particularly among the elderly - to promote total mind-body wellness and fun for all ages.
CASA DE LA SALSA, Latin Dance Performance, Classes, Events and Benefits
Contact: Almyra at almyra@casadelasalsa.net Also, LET ME KNOW IF YOU EXPERIENCE ANY DIFFICULTIES VIEWING ANY PART OF OUR WEBSITE. I WILL ADDRESS THESE PROBLEMS WHEN POSSIBLE.
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