Cali Salsa Festival
The Cali World Salsa Dance Festival (Festival Munidal de Salsa, Cali) is one of the most exciting Salsa competitions in the world, where hundreds of Salsa dancers from the Cali Salsa schools and other cities in Colombia, plus international participants from other countries compete for the prized trophy.
With thousands of Salsa dancers from the 60 plus Salsa schools from Cali, this event has become almost an entirely Cali affair, with the winners also winning the right to represent Colombia in the World Salsa Championships later in the year.
The Festival has various categories: Teams, couples ON 1 and Cabaret, plus the children Teams division. This special event also includes many Salsa activities, such as workshops in Cali Salsa style and Salsa on 1 and Salsa on 2 with important international guest instructors from the US and Puerto Rico. The Festival also includes conferences, exhibitions and concerts.
Past winners include, 5 times Team world champions Swing Latino, world Runners-up Pioneros del Ritmo, previous Cabaret world champions Jhon Genner Vasquez & Yudy Aguilar and reigning Cabaret World Champions Jonathan Landazuri and J Lorena Rodriguez Tangarife. The winners of the Cali World Salsa Dance Festival, have gone on to win the World Salsa Championships in the Cabaret and Teams competitions in the last two years, establishing Cali Salsa dancers and their amazing dance style in the world stage.