Salsa Obsession

I'm a salsa dancer, and I LOVE dancing of all kinds, including Salsa, West Coast Swing, Zouk, etc. I obsess over dance every second of every day. This is my blog about my obsession. At most TWO posts a day to keep the dance blues away! 

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Dope kizomba/zouk remix of Back to the Start, original by SoMo, remix by Dj-chad Kizombasembasalsabachata.

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The internet belongs to all of us. It’s an open, fair, democratic place that we’ve all helped to create, together. On February 26, the FCC is going to decide whether to leave the internet in our hands…or whether to turn it over to the cable companies.

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I try to keep my tumblr posts strictly about dancing, but this is important enough for me to make an exception. On February 23rd, the FCC will vote to save Net Neutrality or let Comcast and other ISPs create Internet slow lanes. Some members of Congress, on behalf of their corporate cable donors, are trying to stop the FCC from protecting the Internet we love. Hate slow internet while streaming videos on Netflix and YouTube? You can help fight against it by contacting your congressmen and women and arguing for protecting Net Neutrality, to keep an open and equal Internet!

Go to battleforthenet.com!

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Performed by: Haley Fitzgerald and Kyle Hanagami

Number: “Sweater Weather”

Choreographers: Haley Fitzgerald and Kyle Hanagami

Style: Lyrical Hip Hop

From: “Sweater Weather  I  Kyle Hanagami & Haley Fitzgerald” (2015)

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This is really beautiful...

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Very sexy hip-hop(?) (or would you describe it as burlesque?) choreography by Jersey Maniscalco to Partition Part II by Beyonce.

My favorite part of the choreography are the little hops around 1:39-1:41 :)

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Cool salsa performance by Santo Rico dance company to a non-salsa song. I dig the musicality :)

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Awesome hip-hop choreography by Kyle Hanagami to Feenin by Lyrica Anderson.

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Megan Batoon Choreography | “NAUGHTY GIRL" by Beyonce

Santa’s daughter, Christine Kringle, goes on a mission in Santa’s workshop and stumbles upon something unexpected.

Writer/Editor: Megan Batoon @meganbatoon Director/Editor: Ian Eastwood @Ian_Eastwood Director of Photography: Gerald Nonato @geraldnonadoez Santa’s Helper: D-trix @d_TRIX Dancers: Amanda Suk @Sukiestyles Kelley Pahamotang @Sheskp Madison Duncan @MadieElizabeth_ Samantha Caudle @samanthacaudle9 (and also my makeup-thanks!) Shay Konyha @ShayKonyha Shell Griffith @ShellGriffith

Be sure to LIKE I Won’t Dance on FACEBOOK!

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My favorite parts of this choreography:

1. Megan brushing the back of her hand with her lips around 1:45-1:47.

2. The leg sweep/swivel around 2:03-2:05.

I don't know why I like those so much. I guess I'm a weirdo :P

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That moment when you go back to dancing after a long break…

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So true.

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Super awesome feel good ‪hip-hop‬ choreography to Bruno Mars' Locked Out of Heaven by the super-talented Kyle Hanagami...

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Smooth hip hop choreography by Kyle Hanagami.

Song 1: That Girl by Justin Timberlake.

Song 2: Don't Hold the Wall by Justin Timberlake.

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Blog Plans: Pruning Posts to Improve Quality

I haven't been posting stuff for quite a while (at least a few months), and coming back to my tumblr now, I feel like I let the quality of the content go really downhill. So I'll be removing some posts that I feel aren't worth most people's time, so if you're looking for something that I've posted in the past but can't find it, I probably removed it.

I'll probably be removing a lot of the photo posts as well, for the same reason, particularly the ballet photos. There are already a lot of ballet tumblrs out there, that probably do a better job at curating content than I do. Plus dance is an art form that you really need to see in motion, in a video, so I want most of the content on my tumblr to be videos.

My goal again is to improve content quality on my tumblr, so I hope that these changes are for the better.

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Smokin' HOT hip-hop choreography by Tricia Miranda to That's Me Right There by Jasmine V.

One of my favorite things in this choreography are the badass neck isolations near the end.

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Salsa is sometimes described as simply "walking with style". I like to think that's true in a lot of dancing, not just salsa.

I think Sara Lopez demonstrates "stylized walking" perfectly in this Kizomba demo at 2014 Feeling Kizomba Festival in Spain. She doesn't do anything flashy, extravagant, or over-the-top, but that's exactly what makes her dancing so sexy: it's the perfect subtlety to her movement, her precise muscle control that makes her stylized walking so damn HOT!

Song is Zaho - Tourner La Page (Kizomba Remix By Nindja).

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Truth.

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Truth.