SALSANAMA
Welcome to the international competition “Salsanamá - One vs One” that I created with the aim of promoting, valorizing, respecting and spreading “Salserity”, that is the free interpretation of a salsa dancer at 360 degrees in his/her improvisation.
"Esta no es la competencia del bailarin, si no del bailador!"
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Fernando Sosa
PREMI
1° PLACE GOLD WOMEN
1° PLACE GOLD MEN
SPECIAL GRAND PRIZE
-PAID TRIP
1° PLACE GOLD WOMEN
1° PLACE GOLD MEN
1° PLACE A MI MANERA
SPECIAL GRAND PRIZE
-PAID TRIP
-FULL PASS
-ACCOMODATION
1° PLACE IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE
SPECIAL GRAND PRIZE
-FULL PASS
-ACCOMODATION
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PROGRAMMA
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PUBLIC ENTRANCE HALF AN HOUR BEFORE COMPETITIONS
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COMPETITORS' ENTRANCE AN HOUR BEFORE COMPETITIONS FOR REGISTRATION
THURSDAY
2 february
h. 14.00 AMATEUR WOMEN FIRST TIME
h. 15.30 AMATEUR MEN FIRST TIME
h. 17.00 UNDER 17 FIRST TIME
h. 18.30 UNDER 12 (NEW CATEGORY)
h. 22.30 PRE PARTY
FRIDAY
3 february
h. 11.00 AMATEUR WOMEN
h. 12.30 LUNCH
h. 14.30 GOLD WOMEN
h. 16.00 UNDER 14
h. 17.30 AMATEUR MEN
h. 22.30/4.00 SOCIAL PARTY
SATURDAY
4 february
h. 10.30 UNDER 17 MEN
h. 12.00 A MI MANERA
h. 14.00 LUNCH
h. 16.00 UNDER 17 WOMEN
h. 18.00 GOLD MEN
h. 22.30/4.00 SOCIAL PARTY
SUNDAY
5 february
h. 11.30 IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE QUALIFICAZIONE
h. 13.30 LUNCH
h. 15.30 A MI MANERA UNDER 16 (NEW CATEGORY)
h. 17.00 IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE FINALE
h. 21.30/2.00 SOCIAL PARTY
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GUIDELINE
This system is valid for all categories (excluding IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE) and it is valid for both the eliminatory phase and the final.
There’s no more a list of songs.
All songs will be unknown to competitors. Every time a song is extracted, it will no longer be reintroduced into the song urn.
NATURAL REPÊCHAGE: if the odd number of the participants names put in the urn in question leaves a participant without an opponent, the judges will have to draw his/her opponent from the eliminated participants of that same round.
MANDATORY REPÊCHAGE: the judges are obliged, if there is no need for a natural recall, to choose a pair of participants, just discarded from the last round, which with a further challenge will play a place in the final.
In a foreign eliminatory, only the first comer has the right to access directly to the final that will take place in Milan.
RULES OF COMPETITION
1. The challenge takes place with a one VS one way, at improvisation.
2. The title of the track used will be drawn directly at the time of the round
3. The two challengers have 40 seconds each to improvise, twice a round.
4. Contamination from other Caribbean styles is permitted (rumba, afro, pachanga, reggaeton, etc...)
5. Jumps may be made by detaching the two feet from the ground, with the only purpose of correctly interpreting a musical break. A sequence of jumps, performed at a random point, even if technically perfect, will not be valorized by the judges, as the "SALSERITY" is the prerogative of this competition.
6. The selected tracks will belong to various salsa styles.
A line fundamental performed on a timba salsa (for example), or vice versa, will be considered correct. According to one’s own interpretation, one can move from a dance time to another, but always remaining coherent with musicality.
This is to give life to the maximum freedom of improvisation of the competitor.
7. Heels are compulsory for women, except for the category "A Mi Manera"
8. You cannot touch the opponent during the challenge.
9. While the challenger dances, one must remain in his own space.
10. A participant may enroll in several categories, going up the scale of categories. So an amateur can try the Gold category, but a Professional can not decrease to the Amateur category.
DEVELOPEMENT of the CHALLENGE
1) The competitor "A" (the first to be drawn from the urn) will be the first who dances for his first 40 seconds.
2) The competitor "B" (drawn per second) will dance immediately after the sound of the shift change, for 40 seconds.
3) Competitor "A" will respond to competitor "B", dancing for an additional 40 seconds.
4) The competitor “B" will have to do the same thing (this means that he will dance for the last 40 seconds).
The final of the categories Under 17, Amateurs and Gold will take place in this way:
• The two competitors who arrive in the final must have prepared a one-minute song (original, unmodified. The minute can start from any point of the song).
1) The competitor "A" will dance on the minute of the song presented by the competitor "B"
2) The competitor "B" will dance on the minute of the song presented by the competitor "A"
3) the competitor "A" will dance the minute of the song he/she chose
4) the competitor "B" will dance the minute of the song he/she chose
"salserity" will be considered the common key for each participant in order to win this competition.
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IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE
This category borns to “defend” couple freestyle, in which we can perceive the best of CONNECTION, FEELING AND COMPLICITY between man and woman, without losing TECHNIQUE, MUSICALITY AND SALSERITY.
GUIDELINE
- The interpretation must be made totally as a couple. You can leave your partner only for turns or transition steps, but you can’t stay separated for more than one musical octave.
- We’re looking for the 70% of partnerwork, that is technical work, in which we can see your ability to lead and follow. The remaining 30% can be made of couple musicality.
- Pasitos and tricks are forbidden.
- Musical accents and breaks must be interpretated as a couple. If interpretated with figures, they will be even more evaluated.
- Gestuality and style will positively condition the vote. A man who leads well, has a good musical interpretation and has style and a good posture will be positively judged.
- For the woman too, if she follows and interpretates music in a good way, it will be appreciated if she puts variations without losing style and Salsa technique.
- Each change of time is permitted, as it has always been in Salsanamà, but the change must be made in a conscious way, with musical coherence.
REGISTRATION:
The partecipant, be a man or a woman, will inscribe INDIVIDUALLY. The organisation will care about taking the inscriptions in order to reach an equal number of men and women.
Incriptions will NECESSARILY close in the morning of Saturday February 4th.
DRAW:
On Saturday, February 4th, H 9.30 PM there will be the draw for qualifications. Competitors will be drawn (always with an equal number of men and women) and put in one of the two turns of qualifications that will take place on Sunday (Sunday, February 5th, h 10 AM - qualif. A / Sunday, February 5th, h 13 AM - qualif. B)
The final step will take place on Sunday, h 6 PM.
Convocations will take place one hour before the beginning of the qualification.
Before the qualification begins, the draw to create couples for the first round will take place.
QUALIFICATION, ROUND AND FINAL
During the first qualification round, depending on the number of inscriptions, couples will challenge, dancing at the same moment (there could be three or more couples at the same time and, if there will be an high number of inscriptions, the stage will be divided. This will be decided right before the beginning of the qualification)
Couples will have one minute to improvise together. Then, the alarm will sound and couples will have to change. It will be the woman who will change the man.
During the first round, judges will vote by SCORE each dancers individually. It Will be task of every comptetitor to dance at his/her best since he/her will be judged individually.
Dancers with the jighest score Will pass to the next round.
During the second round, another draw will be made to create the new couples of the round (you can’t plan who you will dance with! Each partecipant Will have to change a lot of partners and give the best of himself/herself to reach the final!).
At this point two couples will challenge. Each couple will have one minute to dance, for an amount of 4 minutes, as Salsanamà system dictates.
After the two couples danced one minute apiece, they will invert. Teh second man will dance with the first woman (in this way, each woman will have one minute to rest, while the second man will dance 2 minutes consecutively.
From the second round on, the vote will follow the classic Salsanamà system. Men at first and then women will be judged with the classic system by hand. In this way, men and women will alway pass singularly. For every round, a new draw will take place to create new couples and the classic Salsanamà system will be used until the final. A predetermined number of men and women will pass each round, until reaching the final one.
We thus arrive to the final with the two men and women who demonstrated to be versatile and to be able to dance, lead and follow every dancer they met.
The last drow will take place to determine which woman will dance with which man. Teh couples will challenge AS COUPLE until the end, so they won’t invert after the first two minutes.
We chose this system because we believe that a couple (and not single dancers) must win. Moreover, this will create a cooperation between the man and the woman to win the first place.
At the moment of the vote, the first couple will stand on a side and the second couple will stand on the other one : judges will decide which is the winning couple.
GIUDICI
UNDER 12 WOMEN/MEN
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Sono ammessi partecipanti fino ai dodici anni compresi. Se sono nell’anno dei tredici devono passare alla categoria under 14. Per età è intesa anno di nascita, e non compiere gli anni prima o dopo l’edizione della competizione.
UNDER 14 WOMEN/MEN
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partecipants who already had the 14th birthday are admitted. If they are in their 15th year, they have to partecipate in the under 17 category. By “age” we mean the year of birth and not the age you turn to before or after the competition.
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Based on the number of registrations, it is assessed whether to divide into the two categories Men and Women
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Dance heels are mandatory for girl
CATEGORIES
UNDER 17 FIRST TIME WOMEN/MEN
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Participants are allowed up to and including seventeen years, if they never took part in Salsanamà. If they are in the year of their 18th birthday, they must move to the amateur first time category. By age it is understood year of birth, and not the age you celebrated before or will celebrate after the competition.
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Based on the number of registrations, it is assessed whether to divide the category into the two categories of Men and Women.
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Dance heels are mandatory for girls.
UNDER 17 WOMEN/MEN
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Participants are allowed up to and including seventeen years. If they are in the year of their 18th birthday, they must pass to the amateur category. By age is understood the year of birth, and not the age you celebrated before or will celebrate after the competition.
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Based on the number of registrations, it is assessed whether to divide the category into the two categories of Men and Women..
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Professionals, people who are over 18 years old or those who turned 18 in 2023 can not participate in this category.
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All the other competitors can subscribe to this category..
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Dance heels are mandatory for girls.
AMATEUR FIRST TIME WOMEN/MEN
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This category is dedicated to competitors facing Salsanamà for the first time.
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Professionals cannot participate in this category.
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Amateur competitors who have already done at least once Salsanamà can not partecipate in this category.
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Children under the age of 18 who have already done at least once Salsanamà can not participate in this category.
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Dance heels are mandatory for girls.
AMATEUR WOMEN/MEN
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We consider as amateurs people who are not yet professionals in the sector: students, novice dancers (who already perform with companies and/ or with their teachers), dancers who don’t do this as a first job.
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Professionals are not allowed to participate.
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All the other competitors are admitted to this category.
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Dance heels are mandatory for girls.
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The man/woman who wins this category must, in the next edition, move to the Gold category.
GOLD WOMEN/MEN
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This highest level category of the competition.
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All the competitore, be professionals and not, can partecipate in this category.
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Dance heels are mandatory for girls.
A MI MANERA
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This special category is dedicated to total freedom. The judges will not take into account the gender of the competitor, who may use the style he/she prefers, while remaining in "salserity" and musicality.
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You can use any type of footwear. (heels, tennis, low, high, etc...).
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Outfits that don’t relate to the world of dance are not allowed.
A MI MANERA
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This special category is dedicated to total freedom. The judges will not take into account the gender of the competitor, who may use the style he/she prefers, while remaining in "salserity" and musicality.
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You can use any type of footwear. (heels, tennis, low, high, etc...).
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Outfits that don’t relate to the world of dance are not allowed.
IMPRO SOCIAL COUPLE
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Every competitor, be a professional or not, is admitted to this category.
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To win the category you will need to dance with more than one dancer.
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You will registrate to this category individually and not as a couple.
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We recommend you to check the specific rules of this category to know all the info about draws and news.
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Couples will be made of a man and a woman.
N.B.
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As PROFESSIONAL dancer we refer to people who live thanks to dance as MASTER or PERFORMER and to people who compete at PRO LEVEL in international competitions. In any case, we reserve to ourselves the right to assess it on a case-by-case basis.
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PROFESSIONAL dancers can only access to the categories "Gold", "A mi manera" and "Impro Social Couple".
FAQ
IS THE EVENT SUITABLE FOR ALL AGES?
For sure it is! There are different categories to participate in depending on your age. Your age will not prevent you from participating in this competition!
WHAT IS A PROFESSIONAL?
A “Professional”, according to this competition, is a competitor candidate whose main occupation is dance, be him/her a performer (shows, events, etc...) or a Dance Master (teaching, training, etc...).
Professionals have their own category and cannot enter the Amateur category.
HOW MANY CATEGORIES CAN I SUBSCRIBE TO?
You can subscribe to more categories!
Check the rules of each of them to be sure you can participate.
SHOULD I USE A COSTUME?
No, it’s not necessary, but you can wear it if you want! As this is an improvisation competition, you can dress, get ready and dance as you want!
For the footwear, check the rules of the various categories.