Woochifer
08-04-2006, 07:14 PM
Man, talk about a guy from the old neighborhood making it into the big time! I normally don't watch reality TV, but a friend of mine told me that she saw my former salsa dance instructor on So You Think You Can Dance, the dance competition series on Fox.
I looked it up on BitTorrent and there was good ole' Alex Da Silva preparing two of the contestants for a tango routine! He is apparently one of the Latin dance choreographers on the show and was one of the regulars last season as well. (Now, I'll need to download last season as well!) It was really funny watching the routine, because so many of those patterns include things that he teaches in his regular dance classes. This show seems a lot more interesting than some of the other dance/talent reality shows because it pairs the couples up at random, and the style of dance that they have to prepare for is also a random draw.
Being on a top 10 rated TV show is quite a far cry from the old days when a small group of us would meet up at Alex's home studio in San Francisco for weekly salsa lessons! That was my regular Wednesday night routine for three years until Alex moved down to L.A. in search of fame, fortune, and more chicks (not necessarily in that order). I would periodically see him on a TV commercial or a Spanish-language music video, but now he's on the network. Talk about trippy! :cornut:
For people in the L.A. area, he still teaches seven days a week, and his drop-in classes are a blast.
http://www.alexdasilva.com
I looked it up on BitTorrent and there was good ole' Alex Da Silva preparing two of the contestants for a tango routine! He is apparently one of the Latin dance choreographers on the show and was one of the regulars last season as well. (Now, I'll need to download last season as well!) It was really funny watching the routine, because so many of those patterns include things that he teaches in his regular dance classes. This show seems a lot more interesting than some of the other dance/talent reality shows because it pairs the couples up at random, and the style of dance that they have to prepare for is also a random draw.
Being on a top 10 rated TV show is quite a far cry from the old days when a small group of us would meet up at Alex's home studio in San Francisco for weekly salsa lessons! That was my regular Wednesday night routine for three years until Alex moved down to L.A. in search of fame, fortune, and more chicks (not necessarily in that order). I would periodically see him on a TV commercial or a Spanish-language music video, but now he's on the network. Talk about trippy! :cornut:
For people in the L.A. area, he still teaches seven days a week, and his drop-in classes are a blast.
http://www.alexdasilva.com