His most recent salsa teaching is called Salsa Challenge, an intensive technique and fundamentals based course to train salsa dancers ( Professor Gill is a frequent blogger on a wide variety of topics. SalsAmigos was recently awarded a multi-year grant from the Youth Opportunities Board of the City of Boulder. In 2006 Sam founded SalsAmigos, a non-profit devoted to teaching salsa (rueda de casino style) to teen agers (see Through his work with young people, Sam has developed an approach that teaches all dancers both “lead” and “follow” parts-a significant innovation in the form and in the benefits to the participants. Sam has also taught rueda de casino sessions many times at New Vista High School in Boulder. The Salseritas has now become an all-ages women’s salsa performance group. In 20 the Salseritas took fourth place at the annual “Cuba Baila!” international rueda competition in Vancouver (see videos of the Salseritas). They do the rueda de casino form of salsa. In 2003, Sam organized and began coaching a group of teenage girls-Salseritas-who performed widely and competed internationally. For the last six years, Sam has taught salsa in several forms to hundreds of dancers of all ages and levels. In 1999, he co-founded, with his daughter Jenny, Bantaba World Dance and Music in Boulder, where thousands have been offered dance, music instruction and performances from dozens of cultures throughout the world. His recent writings on dance are “SalsAmigos: Teens Dancing Health and Happiness” and Dancing: Stepping to the Rhythms of Life. Sam Gill has researched and taught world dance history for more than a decade at the University of Colorado at Boulder.
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