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JORGE CAMAGUEY Y YAMIRA SANCHEZ BATISTA

Jorge Camaguey is unmistakably Cuban and great fun. He has a unique style of Mambo Salsa/jazz/afro-Cuban fusion that has to be seen to be believed. He has many years experience in performance (music/dance videos, dance troupes) and teaching. Some of his Salsa contemporaries have hailed him as the best dancer in Europe.

Jorge was born in Havana, and was engaged in Cuban folklore since childhood. He is the famous international instructor of afro-Cuban dance, choreographer, and dancer. He taught in Germany, France, England and Spain. He lives in Barcelona since 1997 and is the head of "Asisebaila" school. He has worked with such famous people as: David Civera and John Secada, Rusia and Fangia de Mireli. Acted in commercials for "Coca-Cola","Mango" and"BBVA". His remarkable talent, inexhaustible energy, and also his personal style of work that is based on mixture salsa with hop-hop and Cuban son with rumba make his choreographies unique.

 

Yamira is a professional dancer and choreographer from Cuba, now living and working in Barcelona in

Spain. She gained her vocation as an instructor of salsa, ballet, Cuban and Latin-American folk dances, as well as modern dance in Havana at the National School of Instructors of Art-“ENIA” (“Escuela Nacional de Instructores de Arte”). She was teaching as a professional instructor all over the world: in Stuttgart, Berlin, Cuba. etc.. She was the member of the famous ensemble “Cubamemucho” in London and Madrid.

Apart from that, Yamira worked in Spain and Venezuela with the household names from the sphere of Latin music such as: Celia Cruz, Chayanne, Oscar de Leon, DLG, Thalia i Jerry Riverra. In addition to performing at numerous dancing manifestations, Yamira can be seen in various video clips of the Latin music, such as “Bulías”, a big Spanish hit.

 

Nowadays, she teaches in her school in Barcelona the following dances: Cuban salsa, Rueda de Casino, “free steps”, Cuban rumba, Afro Cuban rhythms, Yoruba (orishas), Kongo (Palo, Yuka, Makuta). Yamira also teaches modern dance. No doubt that her grace and vast knowledge will contribute to the quality of the festival !

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