salsa blogger’s guaguanco journey begins
An incredible capturing of the Guaguanco from Susan Matthews' gallery: http://users.lmi.net/susanmat/index.html Look at the spilled peanuts. Talk about dropping whatever the hell you are doing and going right into a Rumba!!
Check out Loo Yeo’s Salsa diary where he describes the beginning of his personal journey with learning the Guaguanco.
http://salsadiary.blogspot.com/2009/08/personal-journey-with-guaguanco-prelude.html
He ends up using Jose Carrion’s DVD and we must say that after training with Jose and his wonderful wife down in Seattle, he is in our opinion, the foremost authority on Afro-Cuban folkloric dance in the United States.
Not to mention he spent decades as the head professor of Ballet Folklorico Cutumba which totally kicks ass on the authentic side of things.
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It’s a beautiful painting.
Interesting that you mention Jose Carrion because I was looking on YouTube for some examples of Orisha to post and one of his performances came up. I’m trying to find something that illustrates the dance to include with announcements for the Orisha workshop you are doing later. If you know of any please let me know. Also any online text that describes the folklore behind the dance. It seems a little more obscure than guaguanco.
You should see the rest! They are really out there.
Here is some interesting rendered work of Orisha art that really made my eyes pop out of socket. I’m going to order a print I think: http://www.redbubble.com/people/bogart137
I just wrote a post on the Orishas and we will be trickling out more info the next few weeks.
We set the workshop for September 27th, but I really want to keep putting out word early…you know how it is, people -including myself- never make it to things we want to because of late notices.
The Orishas are definitely a little further down the hole than the Guaguanco.