World Salsa Championship on ESPN2 tonight May 27th at 9 p.m.!

Posted May 27th, 2008 by ghyska
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Hello everyone,

I just received the below email....if you have a DVR or VCR, this would be the perfect night to tape Salsa as Salsa will be hitting Mainstream TV (well, cable TV at least) for the first time! Here are the details..THIS IS HUGE FOR SALSA!!!!

Media Alert

For the first time in the history ESPN2 network will Broadcast World Salsa Championships

Broadcasts will begin May 27, 2008 at 9:00pm EST.

ORLANDO, Florida, May 27 - The Salsa Seven Inc., the company producing the World Salsa Championships for the ESPN television network, today announced that the TV channel will begin broadcasting the most anticipated dance competition of the year.

What:

Broadcast of the 3rd Salsa World Championships, held last December at Walt Disney World's(R) Coronado Springs Resort in Orlando, Florida. Dancers from 34 countries compete at this major international competition, where they put their artistic skills to the test in the following categories: Salsa Group, Salsa Individual, and Salsa Group/Cabaret. The championship's grand prize is $80,000. Contestants from Australia, Colombia, Mexico, United States, Puerto Rico and Venezuela will be defending their titles.

Where:

On ESPN2, available nationwide in the U.S. to more than 90 million homes.

When:

Event broadcasts will begin Wednesday, May 27,at 9:00 p.m. EST (eastern standard time);6:00 p.m. Pacific time.

For the third consecutive year, the Third Annual Salsa World Championships have been produced by Rob Beiner, famed producer and winner of 12 Emmy Awards. Beiner has produced or directed more than 2,000 sports and Entertainment broadcasts for leading TV networks such as ABC Sports, CBS, NBC Sports, USA Network and ESPN. Beiner considers salsa competitions to be a new sport or "dance-sport", due to the rigors of training and the skills the dancers must demonstrate in order to qualify for a world event he calls "the Salsa Olympics".

For more information, go to: www.worldsalsachampionships.com

The 4th Annual World Salsa Championships will be celebrated at the Disney's Wide World of Sports from December 3-6,2008.

Contacts:

Albert Torres
310-445-9705
atevents@gmail.com

Rob Beiner

1-888-725-7274
salsaseven@gmail.com

Future air dates:

ESPN2 USA:

May 27 9:00 pm ET 6:00 pm PT

June 4 12:30 am ET

June 3 9:30 pm PT

June 19 2:00 pm ET 11:00 am PT

Glenn H

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Check out the History page

On May 27th, 2008 Geo- says:

Thanks for the article Glenn! I had forgotten about this - don't have cable so I'll have to see what I can do.

They have a nice write-up on the history with a description of the different styles:

http://www.worldsalsachampionships.com/history.htm

Geo-

Thanks for telling us about this!!

On May 27th, 2008 Jamin says:

I had no clue this was going to be aired tonight until you told us and I am really glad I watched it. It was a lot of fun to watch a competition that had real salseros competing.

I liked the comments Eddie Torres had about his observations when he first came out to the salsa clubs. Like he said, this dance brings together people from every nationality and all walks of life. It is an attribute of the dance that is very visible right here in Detroit and its probably one of the main reason I have been into it for this long!