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Browse salsa eventsAbout Salsa Vida
The home of Salsa Dance on the web
Find your next dance, learn the fundamentals, practice smarter, and understand more about the music and people behind salsa.
160K+
Monthly visitors
5,600+
Events listed
129
Countries covered
2014
Year founded
For the global salsa community
Everything you need as a salsa dancer
From finding tonight’s social to planning a festival trip, working on your timing, or finally understanding the clave, Salsa Vida has you covered.
Learn and improve
Start with the basics, build better timing and technique, and get more comfortable on the dance floor.
Read the Salsa GuideLearn the music and history
Look up the people, terminology, styles, instruments, and ideas that have shaped salsa.
Read articlesFollow salsa worldwide
Catch up on news, interviews, competitions, releases, and stories from dancers and organizers around the world.
Read the latestThe Salsa Vida platform
Building the world’s most advanced platform for salsa
Salsa Vida began as a local event calendar. Today, it is the largest platform for salsa dancing on the web, used by more than 100,000 people every month from around the world.
Our platform makes it easier for dancers to find events, for studios to reach new students, and for event organizers to promote festivals and congresses to a global audience.
For dancers
Find the right social, class, or festival without digging through dozens of accounts and outdated pages.
For studios
Make classes and recurring events easier to discover, both locally and for dancers visiting from out of town.
For organizers
Put festivals, socials, classes, and congresses in front of dancers deciding where to go and what to book.
How we make that possible
Human expertise, salsa-specific data, purpose-built software, AI, and agentic workflows help us cover more cities, maintain thousands of listings, publish across languages, and build new tools faster. Everything we publish is shaped by a team that loves salsa dancing.
About the founder
Takeshi Young
Takeshi Young—aka Salsakesh—is a dancer, coach, videographer, and founder of Salsa Vida, with more than 20 years in salsa.
He has performed with top Bay Area dance teams at events around the country, competed internationally in the Pro division, and founded Spartan Mambo at San Jose State University in 2010. The team now has more than 50 members and more championship titles than any other college team.
What keeps Takeshi inspired after more than 20 years is salsa’s unique combination of community, creativity, and human connection. Through Salsa Vida, he works to make the world of salsa easier to discover and strengthen the global salsa community.
It’s not just a dance. It’s a lifestyle.