Allegro Dance Center

Ever since the interest in salsa started flourishing in Europe, Yanek Revilla has been committed to bringing the dance from his native island of Cuba and spreading it across Europe. He has worked as a director, choreographer, and leading dancer in the Cuban company Casino.com. He has won the International Festival of Son MatamoroSon in the categories of “Best Rueda de Casino” and “Best Dance Couple.” Also, he participated in the Cuban television program “Bailar Casino” and won the titles of “Best Cuban Casino Dancer” in 2004 and “Best Rueda de Casino” in 2005. He was on the panel of judges for a major international modern dance competition, and he also danced in the theatre performance “Obbalu Aye” at the Heredia Theatre, the second largest in Cuba.
He has won numerous awards in his native country and since 2003, when he made his international appearance, he has earned an undisputed place among the world-class. In 2004, for instance, he smoothly won the world championship of salsa in Italy.
In October 2006 he toured Russia and Ukraine, where he taught at various salsa festivals in Kharkiv, Kiev, St. Petersburg, and Krasnodar and was often invited to be a member of the panel of judges. The tour proved to be such a success that the Association of Salsa Societies awarded him the title of the best foreign instructor in Russia.
Yanek displays not only a captivating charm of perfect body control and an arresting passion for Cuban dances but is also highly appreciated for his extraordinary teaching skills. His greatest assets are the passion and ease with which he transfers his knowledge.

Last but not the least, the popularity of this attractive dancer is reflected in the incredible number of 600.000 admirers across the world who daily download his videos and performances from the Internet.

Emilito Herrera is currently living and working in the city of Augsburg, Germany. He has won a reputation as an amusing, high-spirited dancer and instructor who can boast of an enormous talent. He surely demonstrates how he puts all his heart and passion into getting people to move to the rhythms of Latin America. Apart from Cuban Salsa in general, his specialty is Rueda de Casino. In 2007, he and his group became Bavarian champions of Rueda. In the same year he won the World Congress of Cuban Salsa held in Munich and became German champion of Rueda de Casino. He has been engaged in various projects in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Munich thus greatly contributing to the development of Cuban Salsa in Germany.