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Videos of the Week - Tomas Guerrero |
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Written by Allan Tabilas
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Tuesday, 24 March 2009 |
Tomas Guerrero
Over the past three years, we have accumulated a large variety of videos, from interviews, highlights, social dances, and performances. We have been entertained by the likes of Al "Liquid Silver" Espinoza, Oliver Pineda and Luda Kroitor, Tropical Gem, and many others. Each week (or two) we will profile a selection of videos, ranging from the very popular to the rarely seen.
This week we feature Tomas Guerrero, who helped build New York based dance school Santo Rico (founded by Wilson Beltre) to an internationally acclaimed dance company. He was recently honored in March at Edwin Rivera's 2009 Dancers Night Out event. Below is a brief quote from the Santo Rico website.
To date, Santo Rico hasn’t stopped working toward pursuing their current status in the business as the longest-standing performance team in the world. Since launching their first choreography in 1996 Santo Rico has worked relentlessly on its art, spanning 5 continents, over 25 countries and over 40 US cities during this fabulous trajectory. To date, they're recognized for their dazzling choreographies and their world-famous "Santo Rico spinning technique" initiated in 1998 by Tomas Guerrero himself. Santo Rico's training methods have influenced, inspired and trained many dancers all over the world, including dancers from dance companies like Karisma and Yamulee, which were formed from training and dancing under Santo Rico. Santo Rico’s achievements also include performing with many Salsa Superstars such as Gilberto Santo Rosa, Tito Puente, Jose Alberto "El Canario", Marc Anthony, La Sonora Ponceña and Victor Manuelle to name a few.
| Tomas Guerrero & Edwin Rivera at the 2009 Dancers Night Out 
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Tomas Guerrero & Janet Trotto at the 2007 Punta Cana Congress 
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| Tomas & Mario Gonzalez at the 2007 David Melendez Tribute Event 
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Tomas and Alina at the 2007 David Melendez Tribute Event 
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