Salsa, Afro Cuban and HipHop Fusion in Japan !
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From African, Latin and Afro American origins, all these dances gathered in this short choreo that we did in Japan.
Dancers (instagram):
Saeko Sugaya (@salsaeko)
Fred Dancefloor (@freddancefloor)
Kouamé Dancefloor (@kouamedancefloor)
We had the opportunity to meet Saeko Sugaya during the Dancefloor Tour organized by Leo Kuo in Japan.
This girl is amazing. Originally a hiphop dancer she went to NY in order to dance hiphop and she discovered salsa there. After asking for information there, she was told the origins were partly from Cuba or Puerto Rico so she decided to go there in order to study deeply and learn from the roots. When she got Cuba in the early 2000s, she did not speak spanish and felt in love with Abakua style that was danced mainly by men, so nobody wanted to teach her. So she decided to learn rythms and music and then through that, she introduced the dance world and got the opportunity to learn about the huge cuban culture and the afro cuban dances and rumba.
She stayed there 2 years and a half surviving the way she could but staying there to learn her passion.
She is now developping her style mixing salsa and afro cuban dances with urban dances in Japan and won a Salsa HipHop battle in Paris when she came to visit her family (she was looking for a party to meet people and entered that battle by chance).
She is so talented, full of knowledge and humble, it was wonderful to meet such a person in Japan.
If you have the opportunity to visit that wonderful country of Japan, contact her and take her classes, you will learn a lot and meet a special person.
She is definetly Dancefloor Family !
Original Video
https://youtu.be/1nTkipYT9hc
