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There will be over 24 hours of classes to choose from which will cater for all levels. Salsa, Rumba, Cha Cha Cha, Tango, Soca Arobics, Street Jazz etc.

We are pleased to offer a truly first class teaching and entertainment team of choreographers and teachers Marchant Birch , Hakeem Onibudo and Robert and Jean White of Mambocity.

Marchant Birch: Marchant Birch started his formal dance training at the age of seven studying Ballroom and Latin American. He trained in these disciplines for ten years winning over one hundred trophies in various competitions. Marchant moved on to "Boogie" dancing (similar to street jazz) and in 1988 won all three major competitions in Cape Town, South Africa with the dance team called the Cool Boys. In 1999 He won the Cape Jazz Championship ( South African interpretation of salsa) beating over four hundred couples .
In the year 2000 he moved to England and started training and performing salsa with the London All Star Latin dancers. In 2001 he won the World-open amateur salsa championship. In 2002 Marchant started teaching and rapidly became an international teacher teaching in countries like Spain, Holland and France.

Hakeem Onibudo: Hakeem “Mr Impact” Onibudo & Impact Dance has taught and performed for MamboCity at our 5 Star London Congress and all our Salsa Splash Weekend events to date, he teaches Street Jazz, Hip Hop and Soca Aerobics, Hakeem is a Bsc (Hons) graduate in Applied Biology, from the University of Hull. On completion of his degree in 1992, he began teaching dance and fitness in 1995 forming his company Impact Dance. His work has enabled him to work with children, young people, amateurs, semi-professionals and professionals in projects varying from school workshops to TV performances. These include work with the BBC TV, Millennium Dome, Nickelodeon, BBC Clothes show Live, BBC Blast, Carlton Television, CH4 (Endemol) ITV, Cosmopolitan Show, Hit Machine chart show (France), Central Connexions “successful young people” Kensington & Chelsea Special Projects and Breakinconvention to name but a few. He is the originator and teacher of the unique street-style class, Xpress Yo’self. In addition his teaching has allowed him to travel and teach all around the country as well as abroad in Portugal, Lanzarote, Norway, Turkey Dubai and USA.

Robert and Jean White of Mambo City:  Robert and Jean White of Mambo City say about themselves - "Our first Salsa experience, was at a night club in Toronto Canada called Berlins, where the Salsa night was hosted by Josie Neglia, it wasn’t until we returned to London, that we decided to take lessons in 1992, with the first generation of UK Instructors, Xihomara Granados, Nelson Batiste, Ramiro Zapata and Zina. we were first introduced to cross body style dancing by Pedro Gomez and have since gone on to work with and learn different styles from, such salsa luminaries as Eddie Torres, Nelson Flores (Descarga Latina), Thomas Guerrero (SantoRico), Frankie Martínez and many others.   Owing to these influences, we have experienced styles ranging from Columbian and Cuban Salsa, to the Cross Body styles "On 1" / "On 2" and Cha Cha Cha, It was in May 1999, on a visit to the first SalsaWeb Convention (which was hosted in Washington DC), that we really got inspired, the amount of talent there amazed us, this plus encouragement from Nelson Flores and some friends who wanted us to teach them, prompted us to start MamboCity, which we did in August 1999, our first class had about 15 of our friends and steadily grew, we held our first party in October of that year, which was a Halloween Fancy Dress/Mask Party, we like themes as it keeps the party atmosphere.  The following month (November), we got involved in promoting a New York dance group who wanted to come to the UK, Luis Zegarra of Fuerza Latina and Ismael Otero of Caribean Soul, This happend by chance, due a promoter who was responsible for organising the event pulling out, Luis Zegarra persuaded us to go ahead with the promotion."
 
Shelly & Lee:

With their combination of infectious enthusiasm and highly technical partnerwork, Lee and Shelley are widely acknowledged as rising talents on the UK scene. Both are established performers. Shelley is a member of the Manhattan Mambo Dancers and also performs with Iris de Brito and her Latin Soul Sisters, appearing on stage at the UK Salsa Congress 2003 and 2004. Lee forms part of the South of England Latin Formation Team (the British Champions) and has performed with the Diablo Dance Company.

As a dance partnership, they have proved a captivating combination, winning the national Murderous Instincts talent-spotting competition and being invited to teach at the London Salsa Congress 2004 within one month of teaming up. They have also recently been invited to join the Leon Rose Project on the strength of their performances. This young couple’s routine, “Azulito” has been exceptionally well received across the UK since they first performed it at the finals of the Tropicana Professional World Salsa Championships 2004.

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