SalsaNewyork.com is a site for New York style mambo dancing.
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There we all were in Eddie Torres' classes, learning New York mambo On 2 from the Mambo King. But when it came time to take it outside of the studio and into the clubs and socials, no one knew where to go dancing. And no one knew where all the other On 2 dancers from elsewhere were going either, the club dancers or the students learning mambo from other instructors. The students from each studio or clique would just party with their own little group. So when we did go out, there were only a few other On 2 salseros there to dance with. I decided there needed to be some way for all the On 2 dancers to know where the good salsa events were, so that enough of them would go and we'd all have plenty of partners to dance with. After all, we loved this way of dancing so much, and we spent so much time and money learning and practicing it, what could be better than having lots of partners to share it with?
I started out xeroxing information on where to go salsa dancing "On 2", and handing it out to dancers in classes and clubs. But whenever I heard about new events, I would have to revise the information, re-xerox it , and pass it out all over again. It was pretty clumsy and very labor-intensive. But dancers seemed to appreciate the info, and more of them began showing up at events. I decided a web site with a calendar that I could update frequently was the perfect solution to providing everyone with up-to-date information on an ever-changing salsa-mambo dance scene; I would keep the calendar current, and the dancers would each go to the web site for information on their own. And that's how this web site came to be. It's main purpose was to answer the earth-shaking and timeless question: "where can I go dancing mambo, and where will some of the other On 2 dancers be, so I'll have plenty of partners?" I get my reward when I'm in a room full of On 2 salseros having a ball, and I know they found out about that event because it was listed on this web site.
From the very beginning, there have always been a few negative people who have misunderstood and criticized the idea of a web site which focuses on just one way of dancing to salsa. They have stated that it was in some way exclusionary, arrogant, or suggesting that other ways of dancing to salsa were less legitimate or less enjoyable. This is totally not true. And I have never understood their criticism. Why is it OK to have a "NY Yankee fan club" which does not include Mets fans, or a "Ford Mustang fan club" which does not include Chevy owners, or a "Jennifer Lopez fan club" that doesn't deal with Puffy (anymore), or a merengue web site which doesn't cover salsa, or a salsa web site which doesn't include bachata and bomba-plena, but it's not OK to have an On 2 web site which doesn't cover other ways of dancing salsa? This On 2 web site offers people with a similar interest and passion the opportunity to share it with others, and to expand and deepen their involvement in this dance, and to widen their circle of friends....even internationally. That sounds pretty good to me! I am very gratified to see the numbers of people who enjoy dancing On 2 growing every year, and I consider expanding that growth to be one of the goals of this web site. We openly promote dancing On 2.
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Administrative:
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- New York NY
- US 10014-5144
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- (212) 242-2312
Registrant:
- Stephen Shaw
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- New York NY
- US 10014
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