Most Popular Male Cuban Salsa Dance Performer Award Winner Rafael, born in Havana, is widely recognised as the UK’s very best proponent of authentic Cuban Salsa, Mambo and Rumba dance style. He spent his formative years at the Cuban National School of Art and Dance (graduating with honours) spending a further three years with the [...]

Performed with internationally recognised artists including NG, Jose Luis Cortes and Juan de Dios Company (ex dancer of the National folk Group). including master classes, lectures and presentations in cultural centres. Salsa and Casino. A principal teacher to foreign students who are learning Spanish at the Havana University. This experience, added to giving lessons to [...]

Damarys is a charismatic dancer, choreographer and teacher. She is director of The Cuban School of Arts and in 2006 was nominated as one of the best female Cuban dancers in the UK. Graduate of National Ballet School in Havana. Completed a course in Art Management from UNEAC in Havana Curator and interpreter for Afro-Cuban [...]

Homero Gonzalez is one of the pioneers of the salsa in UK, He began teaching his own cultural interpretations and styles of salsa in London. Along with other Cuban, Colombians & UK based teachers, He is largely responsible for popularising the music and dance in the UK in the past decade and creating the huge [...]

Winner of Salsa-UK Lifetime Achievement Award 2006 A 2 times UK Salsa Champion (99/03), performer and teacher in the UK and abroad. Trained at “The London Studio Centre” and with the late William Louther Dance Theatre (one of the original members of the Alvin Ailey Company). Originally from Angola, a country in the south west [...]

Medals in ballroom and Latin dance as a youngster plus a healthy teenage passion for bop, jive and sharp funk moves led to Richard’s eventual abduction by salsa dance and music in 1997. Teaching and DJing since 2000 in a wide variety of London Clubs, Richard’s two-year stint with dance troupe Cudance saw him performing [...]