The Singapore International Salsa Festival 2008 is confirmed! Jointly organized by JJSalsaRengue & Quebec Leisure International, the festival will be held at Downtown East from Friday 24 Oct to Sun 26 Oct 2008. Confirmed International Artists includes Tito & Tamara from Puerto Rico, Salsa y Punto from Venezuela, Super Mario from the UK, Susan Montero from the UK, Jaime & Liz from Australia, Bronx Horns - salsa band from New York, with members from the Spanish Harlem Orchestra! More artists to be confirmed soon! For ticket and accomodation prices and other details, pls see http://www.sisf.com.sg
New! Watch performances by the JJSalsaRengue Performance Team at the Malaysia World Latin Salsa Congress 2008 - click on the first video icon on our home page. Watch members of the performance team at U Festival - click on video links at bottom of the Performance Team page, or click here to access the page ...
Street Cha-Cha-Cha Beginner Workshop
(by Jackson & June)
Wednesday, 23 July
8:30pm to 10pm
Fees: $25 per person
Cha-Cha-Cha is a latin dance that evolved in the 1950s from Rhumba and Mambo. The dance consists of three quick steps and two slower steps danced to four beats. Street Cha-Cha-Cha has many moves that can be converted into salsa and vice versa, hence those who dance salsa will find this dance easier to learn. Street Cha-Cha-Cha is danced on-2 (i.e. on the second count of the music).
WE'VE MOVED into our new studio at 76A Peck Seah Street, Sin 079331, right outside Exit A of the Tanjong Pagar MRT Station, and just a 2-minute walk from our previous studio at Murray Terrace. Our telephone numbers, email and website addresses will remain unchanged. A location map is available on our Contact page.
Here're directions from the Tanjong Pagar MRT Station:
A 1-minute walk from the station. Use Exit A, turn right after exit, you'll see a row of shop house, we're at unit 76A Peck Seah Street - 1st unit on the 2nd floor.
Parking: Along Peck Seah Street; or open carpark behind the Red Dot Design Museum along Peck Seah Street; or basement carpark at Maxwell House.
Happy Salsa-ing & come visit our new studio soon!
WE'D LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU to Union Square and to all of you who supported in one way or another the workshops & performance by Pretty Boys & Girls Productions from San Francisco, World Champion - Team Division, Annual World Salsa Championship 2005. We are very fortunate to have invited them to teach and perform here. They had a great time and thorougly enjoyed teaching the workshops and their socials at Union Square; they said you all are one of the best audiences!! Cheers!
Webster's Farewell Party - Thursday 28 February @ DXO....
Dear Salseras y Salseros,
Most of you who has been dancing for the past years may be familiar or know Webster, one of the pioneering salseros largely responsible for building the salsa scene in Singapore since 1998.
Webster founded the first salsa forum (SalsaInSingapore) and has been instrumental in organizing many "Dancing Buddies" parties over the first few years when salsa was introduced in Singapore in 1998. Together, we organized a few Salsa Batam getaways, salsa parties, and the first Super Mario workshops back in 2004. We had also introduced salsa to Union Square in 2002, afterwhich the club dedicated 1 night a week to salsa, subsequently 2 nights a week, and eventually becoming a full fledge salsa club!
Webster will soon be moving to Shanghai with a new job and we're sad to see him go. Nevertheless, he has a great career opportunity ahead and we'd like to wish him all the best.
There'll be a farewell party for Webster on Thursday 28 February at DXO. To all of Webs' friends, please come join us to bid farewell to this big guy.
Cheers,
Jackson
JJSalsaRengue
SINGAPORE INTERNATIONAL SALSA FESTIVAL 2007
19th to 21st October at Downtown East 
Following a very successful Singapore International Salsa Festival in 2006, Quebec Leisure and JJSalsaRengue had again organized the second Singapore International Salsa Festival over 19 to 21 October in 2007! We enjoyed a great line-up of international artists including The Spanish Harlem Orchestra from New York, Junior & Emily from San Francisco, Hacha y Machete from Boston, Susana & Leon from the UK, Billie & Katie from Miami, Jaime & Liz from Sydney, Super Mario from the UK and many more!
Many thanks to all of you who were there for the workshops and/or parties, and we greatly appreciate all who have supported the event in one way or another. We look forward to bringing you another great festival next year! Website http://www.sisf.com.sg
JJSalsaRengue 6th ANNUAL SALSA PARTY
Saturday 1st September 2007
8pm to 1am @ The Pavilion on the Square
Come with a cool TATTOO to our annual SALSA BASH! Bring your friends for a night of social Salsa, Rueda, Merengue, Bachata & Cha-Cha-Cha, and a line-up of performances!!! Tickets are $10 each (includes drinks at party) and fully redeemable for classes at JJSalsaRengue from 2nd September 2007 to 31st January 2008. Tickets now on sale at JJSalsaRengue!
Party Venue: The Pavilion on the Square - 28 China Street, Far East Square, Sin 049570 (behind Planet Fitness)
SALSA SUPER NOVA 2007
Saturday 7th July at Orchard Road
Event: Tanjong Pagar GRC Fiesta @ Orchard
Thank you all Rueda dancers who were at Civic Plaza in Orchard Road on 7th July to dance in one of the largest circle of salsa casino rueda on this island! Jackson had fun calling the rueda and we hoped you all had a great time dancing it!
Thanks to all others who were there to support the event, and also a big congratulations to Grace & KC and Gaik Leng & Dennis for winning the 1st place in the team category for the Salsa Super Nova Team competition!! This group of 4 put up a great choreography & presentation of their item!
PERFORMING AT THE WEST COAST SALSA CONGRESS, LOS ANGELES
The JJSalsaRengue Performance Team was selected to perform at the West Coast Salsa Congress 2007 in Los Angeles this May!! It was a wonderful experience and we'd like to thank all who supported us in one way or the other. Mucho Gracias!
DAVE PARIS & ZOE KLEIN from New York were in Singapore the weekend of 13th April to teach a series of workshops at JJSalsaRengue titled Integrating Dips, Lifts & Tricks with Salsa! We'd like to thank all of you who supported the workshops and who were at Union Square to catch their show!!
We'd also like to thank Dave & Zoe for inspiring us with their classes and performance! They taught workshops in Techniques for Dips, Lifts & Tricks, Lifts for Intermediates, and Afro-Cuban Body Movement.
We were featured dancing Salsa Casino Rueda on 3rd August 2006 on "Hua Hua Dou Si", a channel 8 lifestyle program. The hosts also interviewed Jackson about Rueda. Thanks to Alexis, Gaik Leng, Melissa, Ben, Dennis & Darren for dancing a Rueda with us and for their time at the filming.
JJSalsaRengue Performance Team
Singapore Arts Festival 2005 - Arts-On-The-Move
In June 2005, the team performed at Singapore Arts Festival 2005's Arts-on-the-Move program. Their performance named Baila Salsa! was specially choreographed for the Festival to share an appreciation of this Latin American music and dance culture. The performance included a series of salsa dance showcasing salsa as a couple, a group, as well as the Casino Rueda style - which is group salsa danced in a circle with spontaneous partner exchanges. True to the culture of Latin American Salsa, everyone was encouraged to join in and dance after the performances! Salseras y Salseros included Alexis, Ee Lian, Gaik Leng, Grace, Joanne, June, Nelle, Andy, Daniel, Desmond, Jackson, KC, Raymond, Terence.
JJSalsaRengue on CNBC Asia - March 2005
Dear friends,
We were interviewed by May Lee of CNBC Asia recently to be part of a fun & fitness/health segment that will be aired on CNBC Asia on Wednesday, 9 March between 7:30pm to 8pm.
We'd like to thank those who are supporting us and especially to those who were part of the class during shooting :)
Cheers!
June & Jackson (Mar 2005)