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Tromsø Salsa the instructors page updated: 20.07.2009
Main instructors: internationally recognized professional dancers Erik & Consuela

 

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Recognized internationally for the quality of their performances and teaching.

Lær fra de beste! Våre hoved-instruktører har representert Norge og Tromsø på mange internasjonale konkurranser, dansekongresser og festivaler med oppvisninger og workshops. Paret har bakgrunn og erfaring som profesjonelle dansere, trenere og koreografer i mange dansedisipliner som Salsa/Mambo, Argentinsk Tango, Swing, Africank, Street Jazz, standard og latin selskapsdanser. De underviser også ZUMBA. Erik og Consuela var de første danserne fra Norge som ble invitert til å opptre på verdens største salsashow: World Salsa Congress i Los Angeles. Duoen er instruktørerene til de fleste som danser salsa i Tromsø. Paret har returnert til Tromsø etter to år i Kina ( Les artikkel fra avisa Tromsø).

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Erik and Consuela Roland from Norway/Mexico are award winning professional dancers that regularly perform and teach throughout Europe, Asia and North America. They perform such styles as Salsa, Latin Jazz, Argentine Tango, Flamenco/modern, Cabaret, Rumba, Chacha, etc. The couple is known for their elegance, unique connection and polished routines. The two met on the dance floor and have been married since 2003.

Bio:
Erik and Consuela have been teaching, performing and competing at many international dance events such as in Los Angeles, Puerto Rico, China, Taiwan, Sweden, Poland, Chez Republic, Finland, Germany, Spain, Philadelphia USA, etc. They have performed at several events in New York City, such as famous Club Cache on Times Square.
__ The couple recently spent two years in China teaching for the biggest dance school and performing for clients such as Sony Corporation, Mercedes Benz, Life Magazine and Creative Kingdom. The duo also worked as choreographers, dance teachers and appeared in music video for Motown legend and producer of "Jackson 5" Mr Bobby Taylor. They both play Latin Percussion (drums) and are membersof the salsa orchestra Canelazo

Dance Training:
Their dance training include multiple diciplines such as Salsa/Mambo, Argentine Tango, standard and latin ballroom dances, Swing, African dance, Dunham Technique, Flamenco, jazz ballet and Street Jazz, hip hop etc.
__ Erik and Consuela have received valuable training from some the best instructors in the world such as US champion of Mambo Edgar Osorio, Eddie Torres - 'the mambo king', Frankie Martinez (New York), Pasi and Maria (Finland), Ambrosia (Russia), Beijing Dance Academy, etc. They are certified instructors of standard and latin dances, and are listed as instructors on SalsaNewYork.com. Besides regular dance classes Erik and Consuelo are also known for their "Dance Core Technique"- classes that include pilates, yoga, ballet and african dance. "Don't miss the opportunity to learn from two of the Worlds top instructors!" [phoenix-dance.com]

Achievements:
Erik and Consuelo have qualified three times for World Salsa Championship. They placed among the top ten couples at the World Open Salsa Championship in Puerto Rico. In 2006 they won the Gemini US open Salsa competition. They are the teachers that educate and certify the salsa instructors in the Norwegian Dance Federation. Their dance team Salsa Frio, consisting of their own students from Tromsø, have performed at international congresses.

Here is the Beijing Erik and Consuelo website .

The couple
Erik is from Norway, Consuelo was born in Mexico and grew up in USA. They found each other on the dance floor in 2002 at the world Salsa Congress in Los Angeles. They married in 2003, moved to Norway and started dancing, and teaching together.

 

 

- Consuelo is a talented and trained dancer. -
Consuelo has been dancing since childhood. Growing up in California and Oregon, she started studying dance in highschol and performed ballet and Mexican folklore for many years. She later recieved formal dance training from college in Oregon where she studied ballet, jazz and hip hop. She is by many considered the best female salsa dancer in Norway. She master numerous dance diciplines and also pilates and yoga.

 

Consuela

- Erik also has his dance background from USA. -
However, he had no dance background or talent before he got involved in salsa in 2001. He discovered what salsa was during his phD training in Oregon, USA and decided that he HAD to learn this dance. Consuela was one of his first teachers... The passion for dance eventuallyt grew so big that Erik in 2007 jumped off his academic career to become a full time dancer/instructor. Using many years experience as a professor of economics at the univeristy, he is known for his ability to teach in a fun, easy and inspiring way. Erik also has a passion for latin music and is a talented DJ with years of experience from salsa clubs. He has been teaching many of the DJ's in Tromsø, including DJ frost.

Erik Roland

Bli venner med Erik & Consuela på

Latin Ballroom Competition Beijing 2008
Latin Ballroom competition, Beijing 2008Latin Ballroom competition, Beijing 2008Latin Ballroom competition, Beijing 2008

 

Dancing flamenco at Sony's camera exhibition Beijing 2008

 



World Open Salsa Championship
Puerto Rico 2006

 

performance at Tromsø Culture House

Winners of Gemini US Salsa Competition 2006
Oregon June 2006

 

 


New York June 2006.

Los Angeles May 2006.

 

  Portland 2007

Beijing 2008
Erik and Consuelo dancing flamenco

 

Warzaw, Poland Nov 2006

Beijing, China Aug 2007



Beijing 2009


E & C in the Lancel Cabaret, Beijing,Nov 2007:


 


Erik and Conseulo are popular instructors, but they are also serious and humble students of dance themselves:

Selected photos of some of the finest dancers and teachers of salsa/mambo in the world:
US champion of Latin Ballroom (mambo) Edgar Osorio
Frankie Martinez - simply the best
Eddie Torres: the teacher of teachers, the father of the New York style salsa, the mambo king himself
 
Edgar Osorio (NJ)
 
Alex Da Silva 
- known from the Tv show 'So you think you can dance'
 
Alex Da Silva & Monica Flores (LA)
Leon Rose (UK)
Luis & Joby Vasquez (LA)
 
 
Angel Ortiz (NY)
Ana and Orville (Canada)
Addie-Tude (NY)
 
 
Liz Lira (LA)
Fransisco Vasquez (LA)
Edie 'the salsa freak' (LA)
 
Hun er tidligere medlem av Abakua dancers og regnes av mange som New Yorks beste kvinnelige salsa danser. Hun er utrolig smart (og pen!), en fantastisk instruktør!
 
Super Mario (UK)

Joe Burgos, Piel Canela dance company (NY)

   
   
Victor and Gaby (Mexico)
 
Jason Molina (Puerto Rico)
 
3 times world Champion of salsa, Oliver Pineda, Australia
 
 
Oliver Pineda (Australia)
Ismael Otero, (NJ)
 
Brandy, Salsvaje Dancers (Arizona)
 
Santo Rico, New York
       
Thomas Guerrera, Santo Rico (NY)
       
 
 

 

Read about, and check out pictures from their popular classes in Tromsø here

 


LIST OF SOME ACHIEVEMENTS

- Aug 2003- present: Created the northernmost salsa scene in the world, teaching hundreds of students to dance every year (On2)
- Nov 2003: Formed Salsa Frio Dancers.
- Jan 2004: Salsa Frio first performance
- January 2005: invited to perform at worlds biggest salsa show: Los Angeles Salsa congress
- January 2005: Interviewed and performed on Tromsø's TV news channel.
- June 2005: Performed at salsa event in Bend, Oregon
- July 2005: Performed at 'salsa con sabor' event in Portland, Oregon
- May 2006: Performed in independence day parade, Tromsø
- May 2006: Guest instructors at salsa workshop at Sudio B, Eugene, Oregon
- May 2006: Performed at West Coast Salsa Congress, Los Angeles USA
- June 2006: Competed and won the North West Open Salsa competition, Portland Oregon
- June 2006: Invited to perform at 2nd Annual Mexico Congress in Acapulco
- June 2006: Chosen to teach workshop at Salsa Olympics in New York City
- June 2006: Performed at Salsa Olympics in New York City
- June 2006: Performed at Mambo Fateegz event in NYC
- June 2006: Performed at MAD ABOUT MAMBO event in NYC
- June 2006: Performed at Club Cache in NYC
- June 2006: Performed at Philadelphia International Salsa Congress
- July 2006: Performed at Descarga Latina' Salsa Cruise, New York City
- July 2006: Competed and placed among top 10 in Puerto Rico world Salsa Championship
- Aug 2006 Featured on the cover of "Pure Salsa" magazine
- August 2006: Invited to perform and Teach at China Salsa Congress 2007
- August 2006 Invited to perform at Salsa India Festival 2007
- September 2006: Invited to perform at New York City Salsa Congress
- September 2006: Performed and thaught at event Organized by Impulse Dance Company, Sweden
- October 2006: Performed for 1000 basket-fans at Tromsø Storm game.
- October 2006: Became certified trainers of standard and Latin by the norwegian dance association
- October 2006: Performed and gave workshops at event Organized by Impulse Dance Company, Sweden
- November 2006: Performed at Warzaw Salsa Festival
- November 2006: Invited to perform at 6. Bacardi Salsa Festival, Czech Republic
January 2007: Performed and gave workshops at events in Tampere and Oulu, Finland
January 2007: Thaught workshops in Eugene and Portland, Oregon, USA
May 2007 Performed at worlds biggest salsa show: Los Angeles Salsa congress
June 2007 Qualified for the Salsa World Championship in Orlando, Florida 2007, by placing 2nd in the Northwest US Open Salsa Championship, Portland, Oregon
- August 2007:

Erik and Consuelo performed and thaught master class workhsops at the 2007 International Salsa Congress, China. Their Dance Team from Tromsø (Salsa Frio) also performed there.

 

 

 

Selected videos

video: Salsa, Tango, Flamenco, etc

video:Practicing rumba at our studio in ChaoyangBeiLu

 

 

 

 

 

 

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