Welcome to the Guam Latin Dance 2020!

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Our website is dedicated to enhance the overall Guam dance community.  We strive to incorporate Latin Dance on the beautiful island of Guam.

Our mission is to entertain people by teaching and developing Latin dance skills of salsa, bachata, merengue, chachacha, reggaeton, and more.

Our vision is to expand our Latin dance family and to share the exciting activities that we do!

We will organize dance show cases from all of the Guam dance companies, social dancers, and international dance champion guests from around the world.  We will also provide workshops to teach the general dance communities the different Latin dances with the expectation that they will discover the joy of Latin dancing.

Current Events

Wednesday

Want to bring your Salsa dance to a new level?

Free dance class. [Wednesdays 7:00 to 8:30] Salsa fundamentals, footwork, musicality & shines. .  Note: Students are required to practice what they learn so we can build progress each week.  This is not for total beginners. They should at least know how to dance basic salsa. We can not progress the class if they have no experience. No partner needed. We spend 45 min on footwork. 30 min on fundamental partner work. This class is very useful for improvers.

PM Peter Wilkinson on FB for further information.

Friday

Kick off the weekends with early Latin dance class (Salsa, bachata, Cha Cha Cha) @KENTO’S 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Good friends, great music.

Saturday

Latin Night at Kentos Guam.   Dance the night away with live music and the hottest Latin DJ.

 

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Guam Rueda

History

Since the early 90’s, Guam dance companies and organizations have been steadily growing and evolving.  In the ballroom society for example, the events were hosted by local instructors such as Sonny Tolentino (Let’s Dance), David Peele Jr. (Guam Dance), and Apaul Quilantang (University of Guam Dance Organization and Guam Entertainment Society). These businesses and organization promoted dance groups such as Guam Latin Dance Group 2014, UOG Dance Group and Guam Latin Dance 2017. Most of the Guam local dance companies individually promoted their concerts.

The Guam Latin Dance pioneer was Mr. David Cooper Peele Jr. He has been a Guam Latin dance performer since 1992 and became a local dance instructor and is still teaching today. His performance partner is his wife, Mrs. Tomoe Cooper. Mr. David is a trained teacher and received a certificate from World Salsa Congress Organization from Miami, Florida.

Around early 2000’s another dance instructor continued and promoted the ballroom dance programs with the dance studio named, “Let’s Dance.” Mr. Sonny Tolentino promoted ballroom events with different international guest dance instructors around Asia like Philippines and Japan. In 2014, Let’s Dance promoted the Argentine Tango event and workshop with the international Argentine Tango performers and dance instructors from Argentina, Ms. Laila Resk and Leandro Oliver. On November 28 and 29, 2016, Let’s Dance also presented Lenny and Mio from VIDA LATINA Dance Co – Osaka, Japan. In 2015, Let’s Dance also invited and presented professional and international dancers from Dominican Republic.

From 2013 to 2016 at the University of Guam, Apaul Quilantang promoted the UOG Ballroom Dance Group (BDG) events each end of the semester and brought the dancers to Saipan in 2015 representing Guam. The UOG BDG provided a Salsa Dance Workshop to the Saipan residents.

In 2016, Ms. Quilantang founded the Guam Entertainment Society and presented the event and workshop “Yes! You Can Dance!” with the international Latin Dancer and World Champion from Hong-Kong, Ms. Sherman Mosquito. Ms. Sherman Mosquito was sponsored by Dr. Ibrahim Aburizik..

In 2018, Guam Entertainment Society hosted the first ever Guam Latin Dance Festival on April 26, 27, 28, & 29.  This 4 day event featured international artist from Singapore, Switzerland, South Korea, Japan, and USA.  The featured artist was the World Salsa Champion from Singapore, the beautiful & talented Ms. Starlin.  Check out her amazing skills.

Visit our Activities page to find out current events..

Meet the Guam Latin Dance Family

Ms. Apaul – General Manager

Event Coordinator and founder of the Guam Entertainment Society.

Mr. Daniel – Technical Director

Assistant Coordinator, Webmaster, Computer Graphics, Video Editor, Music Editor, Problem Solver, Handy Man and Salsa & Bachata teacher.  You need something done? Yea, I’m the guy!

Mr. Peter – Dance Instructor & Performer

Traveled around the world to take training from the most prominent Latin dance instructors available.

Ms. Linda – Kentos Manager

Salsa & Bachata