LA Salsa Congress this year was a blast.  We got a chance to spend time with our favorite friends Ava Apple & Rudolfo Guzman with the Latin Symbolics, stock up on Ballo shoes with Giuseppe, catch up with Junior and Emily, and say hi to our over seas friends from Malaysia, Japan, Mexico and UK.

 

We performed two pieces at LA congress.  Our first piece was our cabaret winning piece “No Air” on Sat night which we were thrilled to received a standing ovation.  Sunday night we performed a piece we were comissioned to choreograph for Salsorro November 2009, a salsa festival in Spain.  In Spain we had choreographed on Baila Society dancers in order to add more acrobatic dance group work to our duet.  The piece was performed to live music by Paloma Souanzes using harp, cello, guitar and vocals.  Albert was so impressed with the standing ovation we had received in Spain, that he requested we perform this same piece (without the live music, unfortunately), at LA congress.  The piece opened up the Sunday evening program and was received well.  Paradizo & Baila Society felt greatly the absence of Paloma’s beautiful partnership, but were please to get another opportunity to join forces, something rare in the Salsa dance scene.