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Luis Salgado

Luis Salgado by Lindsay Dreyer

Luis Salgado: Reaching New Heights Through Dance
by Lindsay Dreyer — May 27, 2008

It’s easy to look at dancer Luis Salgado’s life story and attribute his success to luck or simply assume he was always at the right place at the right time. But as we chatted at the famous Brooklyn Diner in midtown Manhattan, I discovered that there is so much more to this Broadway and film star’s success than serendipity.
Throughout his life, Salgado, who you may recognize from the film “Step Up 2: The Streets” or the Broadway hit “In the Heights,” never believed for one second that he could not accomplish whatever he set out to do. He visualized his goals, told himself he would achieve them, and then went for them with all his heart, even when others were skeptical.
“There were people who said dance does nothing but give fun, but dance has given me everything, opportunities to see the world, go to Japan, Germany, Italy, Greece. Being in New York City on Broadway, paying my rent. I bought my mom’s first car,” he reveals. “And they never imagined it would be that way, but I pursued what I wanted to do and that is what opened the doors.”

Luis Salgado break dancing in PeruPhoto: Alexandra Molina

Even his mother encouraged him to pursue something more conventional, like law or medicine, but Salgado refused. The moment he set foot in a dance studio at the age of nine, he knew immediately that his life would be far from conventional.
“Right then in that moment, the second I set foot on that stage, I thought, ‘Wow, I can do this!’ I discovered this passion very, very early on. I didn’t see myself doing anything else at that moment. So, I watched all the music videos and tried to learn the routines by myself and reinvent them into my style.”
On his journey, Salgado encountered a few key teachers who helped him find his way, one of the reasons he loves giving back and teaching young kids today. When he met his first mentor, José Javier “Pepito” Rivera, he was nine years old and had just moved back to Puerto Rico after spending a difficult year living in Hawaii with his father.
Salgado explains, “Dance was my savior. It allowed me to relearn who I was at that age. Coming back from Hawaii, where I didn’t speak English, and having all these differences in my life, I discovered freedom and who I could be through the arts, thanks to this teacher.”
Rivera was running a small arts program at Salgado’s public school. While participating in the program, which included weekly acting and dancing performances, his schoolwork improved drastically as well as his disposition and outlook. Through dance, he was able to discover and come to terms with his identity at a crucial time in his life.
Salgado, who knows firsthand the importance and power of the arts, especially in the lives of young people, laments the loss of arts programs in public schools in his native Puerto Rico, in the United States and around the world.

“The bottom line is that there were more opportunities in dance in the public school system back then, but now I feel like there are less and less in Puerto Rico and here,” Salgado reveals. “Everywhere I go I think, ‘What is happening to the arts?’ People are just trying to make money fast and we respect and value less and less the arts. I think that disconnects people with themselves, but people need to discover who they are.”

After completing Rivera’s after-school program, Salgado continued to train with his mentor, but also took advantage of the opportunities at a nearby studio. Doors began opening, and at the age of 17, he landed his first gig as a backup dancer for singer Jailene Cintrón. And in the midst of this hectic schedule, between performing and training, Salgado realized he owed everything to Rivera, his first mentor, and wanted to give back in the very same way.
So when the opportunity to teach jazz at the local studio came his way, he jumped on it, even though there were only eight students enrolled at the time. After teaching a few lessons, Salgado grew frustrated with the direction of the failing school and gave the owner a business proposition. A natural leader, he said, “Give me the opportunity to run things for two months. If I develop this and get more students, then you give me the opportunity to pay the rent and make it my own dance school.”

The studio owner took a chance on Salgado, who surpassed every expectation. He took those eight students, rented out a theater, and put on a successful Christmas production. Word spread throughout the community, and after a few months, the young, optimistic teacher had acquired 200 new students.
Inspired by his positive attitude, kind spirit, and most importantly his passion, aspiring dancers from all over the community flocked to take class with Salgado.
“I was in college and I was working, so people started to know my name, but I think people came to my class because I loved it and I wanted to be there,” he professes. “I loved being in a room where I could create stuff with students, to have bodies to play with. I was somebody they could play and create with.”
Through teaching, Salgado began learning more about himself and the kind of dancer he wanted to become. “Who was I to be teaching jazz then?” Salgado asks with a laugh, looking back on the experience. “I started dance in public school and I never had a strong, technical foundation, but it’s what you do with it. I had the opportunity to learn and discover with my students.”
Salgado’s no-holds-barred attitude carried him through the rest of his career, ultimately taking him to New York City at the age of 22 to pursue his dream of dancing on Broadway. A risk for sure, but one that Salgado knew was necessary to achieve his goal.
“Leaving my mom behind was hard, but not the hardest thing to do,” he reveals. “It was hardest to leave my school behind. I was attached to 300 students who were with me, trusting what I was doing with them, seeing them grow and develop their own path. It was a journey I wanted to be with for them, but I also had to follow my own heart and grow for myself. If I didn’t take that risk I wouldn’t be doing what I came here to do, which is Broadway.”
After only three weeks of work/study at Broadway Dance Center, Salgado landed his first gig dancing at Madison Square Garden with pop stars Thalía and Paulina Rubio. Shortly after, he received his first musical theatre job in the Rockland County production of “Evita.” And according to Salgado, that is when everything really started to fall into place.
Not long after, he was selected to appear in the Broadway show “The Mambo Kings.” The show was ultimately cancelled, but the experience led Salgado to the most important connection in his adult life, Sergio Trujillo, the original choreographer of “In the Heights” who brought him on board with the production.

For Salgado, those connections and mentors have been the most important part of his journey through dance. He explains that some people in the business network incorrectly, throwing their resumes and headshots at every teacher and choreographer they happen to meet. But Salgado did things differently; he made his most significant connections in a pure and honest way.
“You just have to do your thing,” explains Salgado. “If you’re doing your own thing with all your heart, your light is shining and people will see it. Now I’m friends with so many beautiful people from all over the world.”
Many of those connections he made along the way have opened doors beyond the Broadway stage. Salgado has appeared in a few feature films including “Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights,” “Enchanted,” “Across the Universe,” and “Step Up 2: The Streets.” Working on films has helped him discover another world of possibilities with dance, one that he would like to continue developing and exploring.

“When you add the camera to your work, it adds so many more possibilities as a choreographer,” Salgado confesses. “The camera can do so many things. When I was assistant choreographer in ‘Enchanted,’ I saw the whole process and everything that’s behind it. I thought it was brilliant. So, it’s a new passion of mine.”
However, nothing compares to dancing on the Broadway stage for a packed house, Salgado revealed to me. When he gets that immediate response from the audience as he dances underneath the Puerto Rican flag in “In the Heights,” he feels more alive than ever.
But Salgado’s passion for life goes beyond the stage and the camera lens. A dedicated humanitarian, he believes in giving back to the Latin American community. Recently, he spearheaded a program called Revolución Latina, which he describes as “an open invitation to experience the greatness of an active Latin community” as well as “an artistic movement with the means of strengthening, educating and collaborating with each other through their art.” More information about Revolución Latina can be found on their Myspace page at http://www.myspace.com/revolucionlatina.
Luis Salgado exudes passion, not only for teaching and performing, but for every aspect of life. A risktaker, a dreamer, and a true artist in ever sense of the word, he is constantly aiming higher and reaching new heights. And the only way to reach those heights is to risk the fall.
“You have to be willing to risk it all, to give that extra mile, to go beyond because that’s what it takes. If you want to commit to something you have to commit to something,” Salgado states emphatically. “I’m not saying I’m the best. There are so many talented people out there with all the technique in the world, but dance was my passion. And the drive to do what I want to do is what has allowed me to accomplish all of this.”
And with his sights currently set on acting, there are certainly more accomplishments on the horizon for Luis Salgado.

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Janet Dacal shares her heart with R.Evolución Latina

Janet Dacal shares her heart with R.Evolución Latina:

Luis Salgado (Director of R.Evolución Latina) Interviews the adorable Janet Dacal.

In This interview Janet speaks about the joy of performing. Learning from watching people like Shakira, Gloria Estefan, John Secada and others and much more.

JANET DACAL Now playing (Carla; u/s Nina, Vanessa) at the Best Broadway Musical 2008 "In the Heights". Other Broadway work; Good Vibrations. Off-Broadway: In The Heights (Drama Desk Award), Byzantium. Regional: Señor Discretion, Himself (Arena Stage); 5 Course Love (Carbonell Nomination); Four Guys Named Jose; Annie and others (Actors' Playhouse). Recordings and tours for various Grammy winning artists including Gloria Estefan, Jon Secada and Luis Enrique. Los quiero mami, papi, my brothers and sister, nieces, family and supportive friends. The Heights family, I'm grateful for you and thank you for making our journey beautiful.

R.Evolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.




Janet Dacal will be playing the Role of (MAYA a girl on a boat & YEMAYA a young festival performer) at the R.Evolucion Latina's reading of "Yemaya's Belly"

Date From July 21, 2008 6:30 PM
Until July 21, 2008 9:30 PM

Location: Repertorio Español
138 East 27th Street
New York, NY 10016

Website: www.revolucionlatina.org

Contact: Luis Salgado / Denisse Ambert
PO BOX 20590 Columbus Circle Station
New York, NY 10023

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Monday, July 21; 2008

Description:


R.Evolucion Latina is presenting the reading of:"YEMAYA'S BELLY" a PLAY FROM Tony Award Nominee Quiara Alegria Hudes.

This is a FUNDRAISING event to help provide a free Arts Summer Camp during the month of August.

With:

Robin De Jesús,
Michael Balderrama,
Tony Chiroldes,
Gabriela García,
Janet Dacal,
Doreen Montalvo,

Special Guest:
Carlos Gómez


Directed by: Luis Salgado and Michael Balderrama,

When:

July 21; 2008
6:30pm

Where:

Repertorio Espanol
138 East 27th Street
New York, NY 10016

Donations:

$10 open seating
$25 reserved seating

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Raw from NYC: R.Evolución Latina & Jon Rua at DRA CROSSROADS

In our mission to celebrate art and Latino artist, R.Evolución Latina presents the work of Jon Rua in a piece entitle: "Coming to America".

Luis Salgado interviews Jon Rua before and after the event at cross roads in time square.

Raw from NYC: R.Evolución Latina & Jon Rua at DRA CROSSROADS:

Dos Mega Artistas en Revolución Latina:

Learning from Priscilla Lopez:
(part I)



Luis Salgado interviews Priscilla Lopez for Revolucion Latina. This was an amazing opportunity. There was so much to learn from this incredibly experienced but humbled talent.

Revolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.

Priscilla Lopez is an American singer, dancer, and actress.

Born on February 26, 1948 in the Bronx, Lopez has the distinction of having appeared in the Broadway landmark, the highly-acclaimed, long-running A Chorus Line,

Lopez graduated from Manhattan's School of Performing Arts (PA), where she majored in drama; her experience as a drama student are played out in the musical "A Chorus Line."

She appeared last season in Nilo Cruz's Beauty of the Father at MTC City Center. Her previous appearance on Broadway was in Cruz's Pulitzer Prize-winning play Anna in the Tropics. Ms. Lopez won a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a musical for her portrayal as Harpo Marx, in A Day in Hollywood a Night in the Ukraine. She received a Tony nomination and an OBIE Award as Diana Morales in A Chorus Line where she introduced the show's hit song "What I Did For Love."

She is a recipient of the Rita Moreno Hola Award and the Raul Julia Award, awarded by The Puerto Rican Family Institute. Her Off-Broadway credits include: Paula Vogel's The Oldest Profession at the Signature Theatre; Class Mother's 68, a six character one-woman play by Eric Weinberger; the musical revue newyorkers; The Passion of Frida Kahlo; Antigone in New York; Other People's Money; Extremities; Key Exchange; Buck; Your Own Thing.

On Broadway she appeared in The Sisters Rosenswieg, Nine the Musical, Lysistrata, Pippin, Company, Her First Roman, Henry Sweet Henry and Breakfast at Tiffany's. Regionally she has played Los Angeles in Vanities at the Westwood Playhouse, and Irma La Douce at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion; Death and the Maiden at Santa Fe Stages; Roman Holiday at the Muny in St. Louis. Television audiences may have caught her in "The Annisa Ayala Story," "All in the Family,""Cosby," "Family," "Law and Order," and last season on NBC's "Conviction." Her film credits include Maid in Manhattan with Jennifer Lopez, Center Stage, "Revenge of the Nerds II, Cheaper to keep Her and Tony and Tina's Wedding at the Tribeca Film Festival in the role of Josie Vitalie.

10 minutes with Lin Manuel Miranda:



Luis Salgado interviews Lin Manuel Miranda, Actor, Writer & Composer of the Hit Musical In The Heights.

Revolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.

LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA (Usnavi/Music/Lyrics) wrote the first incarnation of In The Heights his sophomore year at Wesleyan University, CT. Received the Georgia Holof Lyricist Award for In The Heights at the 2005 O'Neill Music Theater Conference. Composed commercial music for Fernando Ferrer and Eliot Spitzer. A co-founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, a hip-hop comedy group that tours comedy festivals all over the world. Love to Luz, Luis, Lucecita y Mundi. Dedicates In The Heights to the memory of Abuela Eva.

A composer is a person who writes music. The term refers particularly to someone who writes music in some type of musical notation; thus, allowing others to perform the music. This distinguishes the composer from a musician who improvises or plays an instrument.

Comments:

-Que muchacho tan talentoso!!!
Asi es que debe de ser!!!
Representando los jovenes, los Hispanos que se van a estudiar... they go outside their circle and experience a world of possibilities! That is freedom and that is In the Heights.


-this was so inspiring. especially the freestyling at the end. can't wait to see the show!
mirandel91

E questo sarebbe quello ke porta il mio stesso nome??? Ma è un ricchione e non porta alto L'ONORE DEI MANUEL MIRANDA!!!

Lo que el "aburrimiento" de este nino a creado es BOMBA! Lin Manuel eres un verdadero ejemplo para la juventud.
Elmero78

Yessssss. Here's to us bored little kids who just needed to create something!!!

We should fallow our hearts... "you never know" CONGRATULATIONS LIN! Eres un GRAN ejemplo!

maravillosa entrevista. el ser uan persona con sueños y metas y cumplir tus deseos, es algo de entrada fantastico.

compartir esta entrevista, es algo motivante para muchas personas con actitudes artisticas. me incluyo. y me parese super chevere poder ver gente hablar realmente de lo lindo k es alcansar algo y seguir y seguir y comentar inicios y los sueños k se tienen y se alcanzan.


-Thank you so much! Its so wonderful to here Priscilla talk about the accent issues (when it's necessary and not), and material that highlights Latinos and it being just GREAT material! That's why I love "In The Heights", it and it's cast is simply amazing! Also, Priscilla is so RADIANT. Great interview :)

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Revolución Latina Desde Perú

Pasión, Sudor y Mezcla junto a Vania Masias:



Luis Salgado(Director de Revolución Latina) entrevista a Vania Masias directora de D1 Dance y del espectaculo Mezcla.

Revolución Latina es un movimiento que quiere celebrar las acciones positivas y logros de los artistas latinos que sirven de ejemplo y nos ayudan a ser cada día mejor. Buscamos crear una motivación para los artistas actuales y aquellos en formación. No es necesario ser un miembro registrado sino dar el ejemplo y actuar de la manera más profesional posible en cada trabajo realizado sin importar donde sea.
Revolución Latina te invita a que seas tú la diferencia.

Vania estudió en el Colegio Villa María. Se inició en el Ballet en la escuela de Lucy Telge en 1987. Participó en el Concurso Latinoamericano Infantil de Ballet en dos oportunidades, ganando la primera vez Medalla de Plata y luego la Medalla de Oro. A los diez años fue enviada a Cuba a estudiar con Laura Alonso. A partir de allí paso la mitad del año estudiando en Lima y la otra mitad en Boston y en Chicago bailando.

Egresada de la Facultad de Administración de Empresas de la Universidad del Pacífico, ha sido alumna de intercambio de la Universidad de Maastricht en Holanda. Actualmente comparte su vida profesional con el ballet y la danza. Recientemente ha sido reclutada por el el Cirque du Soleil.

"Vania Masias y Luis Salgado, coreografo y bailarin de Broadway, han preparado el espectaculo MEZCLA, que estara presentando en el Teatro Peruano Japones (Av. Gregorio Escobedo 781, Res. San Felipe, Jesus María) del 15 de noviembre al 2 de diciembre.

MEZCLA es una produccion de Raquel en Llamas de RocioTovar, que justamente mezcla varias disciplinas artisticas como la acrobacia, el circo, la danza clasica y el hip hop, todas ellas interpretadas por un grupo de cerca de 40 jovenes que reune a integrantes de D1 Dance, la ONG Angeles y el Ballet Municipal de Lima.

Revolución Latina vive la pasión de César Aedo:


Luis Salgado (Director de Revolución Latina) entrevista a César Aedo quien ha regresado a su patria en Perú para entregar todo su talento. César Aedo, es un peruano que ha radicado 28 años en el extranjero, demostrando su talento como actor, mimo y comediante, y presentándose por todo el mundo con sus espectáculos. Fue Alumno de Marcel Marceau y Etienne Ducrox . Este mimo peruano presenta ahora en el norte de Perú su espectáculo "El vuelo del cóndor", bajo su propia carpa del Circo Etno. En esta ocasión nos honramos en compartir la historia, pasión y sabiduría de este genio del arte y celebramos la vida y el orgullo por nuestra Cultura Latina.

La Carpa de Circo Etno cumple con los reglamentos internacionales de Europa y Estados Unidos con salidas de evacuación y los requisitos de Defensa Civil. Además cuenta con una zona especial para personas discapacitadas a fin que puedan ver el espectáculo con comodidad desde su silla de ruedas.
Luego de pasear su arte por diversos países, ahora César Aedo se alista a enfrentar el reto de estrenar su propio espacio itinerante con el que paseará su propuesta por todos los rincones del país y el extranjero.


Revolución Latina es un movimiento que quiere celebrar las acciones positivas y logros de los artistas latinos que sirven de ejemplo y nos ayudan a ser cada día mejor. Buscamos crear una motivación para los artistas actuales y aquellos en formación. No es necesario ser un miembro registrado sino dar el ejemplo y actuar de la manera más profesional posible en cada trabajo realizado sin importar donde sea.
Revolución Latina te invita a que seas tú la diferencia.

Revolución Latina junto a Lili y Neizma (Ganadoras viaje NY)

Luis Salgado (Director de Revolución Latina) entrevista a Lili González y Neizma Ávila. Estas dos talentosas chicas ganaron un viaje a New York para ver el musical "In The Heights" cortesía de Jaime Camil.

En esta ocasión logramos hablar un poco del baile, de la vida y de las cosas a celebrar en este movimiento de Revolución Latina que poco a poco va tomando las fuerzas y el empuje con gente que hace la diferencia. En este caso El (actor) Jaime Camil se interesa por el desarrollo de la comunidad de la comedia musical en México y a invertido en colaborar con el entrenamiento de estos jóvenes talentos.

Celebramos tanto a Liliana como a Neizma además que agradecemos y felicitamos a Jaime Camil por su interés en el arte y su gran labor.

Jaime Camil es uno de los actores mas conocidos en América Latina. Ha demostrado su talento en radio, cine, televisión y teatro. Fue el primer mexicano elegido para formar parte de un musical original de Broadway (Mambo Kings). Gano la Diosa de P lata 2006 como Mejor Actor de Reparto por la película 7 Días. Estuvo nominado al Ariel como mejor Co-actuación Masculina por la misma película. Fue nominado en los MTV Movie Awards de 2005 como Mejor Actor por la pelicula Zapata. Gano el premio Las Palmas de Oro como Mejor Actor Masculino en un Musical por su participacion en Amor Sin Barreras. Es el co-fundador del festival de cine Shortshorts. Tiene dos discos, los cuales alcanzaron ventas de Platino y fueron producidos por los ganadores del Grammy Rudy Perez y Kike Santander.

Revolución Latina es un movimiento que quiere celebrar las acciones positivas y logros de los artistas latinos que sirven de ejemplo y nos ayudan a ser cada día mejor. Buscamos crear una motivación para los artistas actuales y aquellos en formación. No es necesario ser un miembro registrado sino dar el ejemplo y actuar de la manera más profesional posible en cada trabajo realizado sin importar donde sea.
Revolución Latina te invita a que seas tú la diferencia.

Apoya a Jaime Camil en esta gran causa de Unicef:

Revolución Latina entrevista a Axel Serrant

Luis Salgado entrevista a Axel Serrant. En esta ocasión celebramos al actor puertorriqueño Axel Serrant, quien posee vasta experiencia en el campo artístico, fue voz principal del grupo H2O y recién acaba de llegar del proyecto "Made in América" de Irving Berlin en Estados Unidos.

Revolución Latina es un movimiento una filosofía. Más que nada, queremos celebrar las acciones positivas y logros de los artistas latinos que sirven de ejemplo y nos ayudan a ser cada día mejor. Buscamos crear una motivación para los artistas actuales y aquellos en formación. No es necesario ser un miembro registrado sino dar el ejemplo y actuar de la manera más profesional posible en cada trabajo realizado sin importar donde sea.

Comments:

-Me encantó la entrevista. Conozco del talento de Axel pues por años compartí con él como bailarina en H2O. Me siento orgullosa de sus éxitos y el talento siempre ha estado ahí. Sigue pa'lante. Te quiero, Jeanessa.

- Luis te felicito por tu dedicación y esfuerzo en hacer esta revista tan interesante. Te quiero, Jeanessa.

Revolución Latina conoce a "La viuda de Rafael"

Luis Salgado (Director de Revolución Latina) entrevista a Luis Daniel Estrada Santiago (autor de la novela La viuda de Rafael).

En Revolución Latina queremos celebrar y disfrutar de nuestros talentos Latinos al máximo. Por esta razón hoy me honro en presentar a un escritor que ha publicado con mucho esfuerzo y con éxito su primera novela, La viuda de Rafael. Esta es nuestra primera entrevista en español.Espero la disfruten!

LS

Luis Daniel Estrada Santiago:
Nació en Bayamón, Puerto Rico. Hizo su bachillerato en la Universidad de Puerto Rico, Recinto de Río Piedras con concentración en Teatro y un Minor en Comunicaciones. Ha laborado en televisión como guionista en especiales: Noche Buena en Puerto Rico y Julito y la Magia de la Navidad.
Ha tomado cursos de dramaturgia teatral con Roberto Ramos Perea. Como guionista con José Ignacio Valenzuela y también cursos de portugués.
En teatro se ha desempeñado en diversas ramas. Productor y adaptador de la obra infantil Caty la Oruga donde también escribió todos los temas musicales. Regidor de Escena y Asistente del Director en Club de Solteros y El Cuernito 2. Trabajó en el área de Publicidad y Mercadeo en El Cartero de Neruda, Feliz Ano Nuevo con Lucy Perrea Gordons y laboró como Asistente de Producción en el 1er, 2do y 3er Festival de Teatro Infantil de Plaza las Américas y recientemente en el cortometraje Pasión Cibernética para Acuarela Productions, Inc. y Trébol Pictures.
Incursiona en el campo de la dramaturgia con la novela La viuda de Rafael que estará disponible en las librerías desde el 6 de diciembre de 2006.

Sinopsis:

La viuda de Rafael narra un suceso común pero muy poco comentado en nuestra sociedad. La muerte de Rafael Jiménez es el comienzo para apuntar sobre un tema de mucha actualidad y que está en la mirilla pública. Un suceso triste, trágico es enmarcado en una narrativa jocosa, liviana, llena de mucha picardía. La narradora nos va llevando de la mano y nos cuenta a partir de la muerte de Rafael todos los sucesos que le acontecen a la viuda quien es su mejor amiga. Así conocemos su vida, a través del punto de vista de la narradora. Ela (mejor amiga de Nina La viuda de Rafael) levanta su voz de protesta ante la injusticia, ante la desigualdad social como seguramente cada uno de nosotros defendería a quien amamos, respetamos pero a veces también intercedemos en defender a quien no conocemos sencillamente por el sentido de justicia. Tal vez por eso cuando conozcan a Nina, a Ela, a Cristi, a Susi, a Tomás, a John Cuevas, a Berta, a Fernando, a la Soldadota y hasta la Sargenta sentirán que en algún momento han conocido a estas personas, porque la imaginación sólo contribuyó para adornarlos, pero la realidad se ha encargado de presentarlos y estoy seguro que cada uno de ustedes como yo los han conocido anteriormente.

The power of Antone Pagan

Luis Salgado interviews J'Lo's brother in the film "El Cantante" Antone Pagan. A proud 'Bronxite',member of the famed Actors Studio since the late 80s, as well as actor's unions: SAG/AFTRA and AEA.

Current SAG Indy film to be released in 2007 is: Mulberry Street www.mulberrystreetmovie.com, selected as the 3rd film in the opening of Dark Films', "8 Films To Die For " sponsored by Fangoria Magazine.

This film successfully was the Opening-Gala Film on October 19th, 2007 in The Toronto After Dark Film Festival. Antone sent all well wishes in Toronto and stayed in NYC for a this positive and uplifting interview with Revolucion Latina. He was thrill to have this interview conducted by a fellow Boriqua (Puerto Rican-actor/teacher/dancer/choreographer ) Luis Salgado of the upcoming 2008 Broadway Latino Musical, In The Heights. A story that shows Latinos living, dancing, playing, loving together within the sruggles of life, but on a positive tip. "It is time for a change!" says Antone "May "In the Heights" do well."

Revolución Latina is an artistic movement that celebrates the lives, careers, triumphs and existence of all Latino Artists in and out of the New York Performing Art Community. This exciting and very promising new movement brings Latin Artists together in the hopes of continuing to demonstrate our talents through professional and high quality exposition to a broad audience.

The Colors of Robin De Jesus

Luis Salgado (Director of Revolución Latina) interviews Robin De Jesus. The colors of robin are been shared with you all... Enjoy...

ROBIN DE JESÚS (Sonny) B'way: Rent. NY and Regional: Kander and Ebb's Skin of Our Teeth, Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie, NJ Shakespeare, McCarter, The Public, and Films such as Camp, Pet the Goat and Fat Girls.

Revolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.

From the streets of NY with Michael Balderrama

Luis Salgado interviews Michael Balderrama (Swing, Dance Captain and Understudy)of the Hit Musical "In The Heights".

Revolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.

MICHAEL BALDERRAMA (Swing; u/s Graffiti Pete, Piragua Guy; Dance Captain) Broadway: Hot Feet (Anthony); Movin' Out (u/s Tony); Urban Cowboy (Featured); Saturday Night Fever (Cesar). Regional: West Side Story (Bernardo); The King and I (Simon).

The Dance Captain is a member of the company who maintains the artistic standars and/or musical staging in a production.

An understudy is a theatrical term for someone who learns the lines and blocking/choreography of a leading actor or actress in a theatrical play. Should the lead actor or actress be unable to appear on stage because of illness or accident, the understudy takes over the part. Usually, when the understudy takes over, the theater manager will make the announcement prior to the start of the performance. Several actors made their name in showbusiness by being the understudy of a leading actor and taking the role over for several performances (for example, Anthony Hopkins with Laurence Olivier).

In musical theatre, the term swing is often used to refer to a member of the company who understudies several chorus and/or dancing roles.

Comments:

-nice!!. is good to see people to fight and because his dream and glds come true.
un aplauso y gracias. me agrada ver estas entrevistas siempre dejan algo k inspira

-Lo mas que me encanta es lo educativo que tienen estas entrevista. Gracias por la informacion compartida.

From the Pit with Alex Lacamoire

Luis Salgado interviews Alex Lacamoire (Music Director/Arrangements/Orchestrations)of the Hit Musical "In The Heights".

Revolución Latina is a movement that celebrates human success and growth in Particular the Latino Artist who with their choices and actions set's up a great example for others.

ALEX LACAMOIRE: was most recently Music Supervisor and Co-Orchestrator High Fidelity on B'way. Other credits as Music Director, Arranger, and/or Orchestrator: Wicked, Bat Boy: The Musical, the 2001 Nat'l Tour of Godspell, Stephen Schwartz's Captain Louie, Legally Blonde. "Para toda my familia, aquí y allá".

In musical theatre, the music director is in charge of the overall musical performance, including ensuring that the cast knows the music thoroughly, supervising the musical interpretation of the performers and pit orchestra, and conducting the orchestra.

Conducting is the act of directing a musical performance by way of visible gestures. Orchestras, choirs, concert bands and other musical ensembles often have conductors.

Comments:

Muy cierto; todo lo que ha dicho de la pasion es lo que me para los pelos. Debe ser porque existe en mi. Quisiera algun dia ser tan talentosa como ustedes lo son. Seguire creyendo en mis suenos. Gracias Revolucion Latina.
udfox1

Great interview and heart felt words. Genuine.
Dennis Fox

"Thank you for that interview by the way. It was very informative, and what we need to hear as performers, when auditioning. Whenever a song isn't going my way at auditions, I'd never think to stop, and ask if it's ok to work it out with the accompanist I hope to hear from you soon"

-Ramon

The part about "passion" ummm.. I love it! Keep up the good work Alex, Como dices; REPRESENT!

Luis Salgado Visitara Mexico junto a Jaime Camil

Regalará Camil taller coreográfico

MÉXICO, D.F. (Agencia Reforma)La VozJunio 15, 2007

Con el fin de incentivar a los bailarines de comedia musical mexicanos, Jaime Camil les regalará un taller de tres días con el coreógrafo puertorriqueño Luis Salgado, quien ha trabajado en Broadway y ha sido maestro de figuras como Denise Quiñones. La idea, dice el actor, le surgió pues considera que muchos de los artistas nacionales no tienen la posibilidad de viajar al extranjero y tomar cursos para mejorar su técnica. "De repente algunos compañeros están conformes con su chamba y no siento las ganas y fuerza que tienen los bailarines en Broadway, que van a hacer una audición y saben que si no hacen su mejor esfuerzo, hay 300 detrás de ellos que lo pueden hacer igual o mejor.

"Entonces, se me ocurrió regalar a 80 personas un taller con Luis Salgado, quien vendrá el 2,3 y 4 de julio". En el curso del puertorriqueño, quien trabajó con Camil en la puesta Mambo Kings y al inicio de su carrera se desempeñó como bailarín de cantantes como Jailene Cintrón, Olga Tañón, Paulina Rubio y Thalía, los bailarines aprenderán a preparar una audición, además de diferentes estilos de danza y técnicas de calentamiento. El actor aclara que todas las personas que participen en el taller lo harán a través de invitación. "Queremos invitar a buenos bailarines que estén activos, como también a bailarines que sean una promesa para la comedia musical, que estén empezando, pero que tengan aptitudes. Dos coreógrafos que trabajaron conmigo en Amor sin Barreras me van a ayudar a escoger a las personas indicadas".

Latino Leaders & Broadway

Latino Leaders & Broadway
THE SAY THE NEON LIGHTS ARE ON BROADWAY
THEY SAY THE NEON LIGHTSARE ON...ON BROADWAY, AND OFFLATINO LIGHTSON BROADWAY
In a special edition of our acclaimed portfolio section, we bring you the hottest names that you have never heard from in the world of professional theater: our Latino stars on Broadway.
By Wendy PedreroPhotos for Latino Leaders by Jennifer MacFarlane

"They say the neon lights are bright on Broadway, they say there's always magic in the air..." - From the Song "On Broadway"
Like the famous song, Latinos have been making magic in this theater Mecca from the start. Names like Rita Moreno, Chita Rivera, and more recently Sara Ramirez and others are clear prove that Latinos have long made their mark in this high-spirited industry.
The following are some examples of Latinos whose work, both on and off Broadway is helping to establish beyond reasonable doubt that when it comes to the stage, Latinos are simply there to stay.
From the founders of New York's most prominent Latino Theater Festival -TeatroStageFest, to the cast members of off-Broadway's hottest new show, the Latino-themed In the Heights, here are the faces of Latinos on Broadway today, and you should acquaint yourself with them, because no doubt you will be seeing them again in the future.
Our special thanks to Sharon Jensen at Non-Traditional Casting and to Wayne Wolfe and Matt Stapleton at Bartlow & Hartman P.R. for their invaluable help in putting this project together.

Susana Tubert Executive Producer, Director
Who she is: Susana is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Latino International Theater Festival of New York and Executive Producer of TeatroStageFest. TeatroStageFest began in 2003, when Mayor Michael Bloomberg appointed José W. Fernández as a Commissioner on the NYC Latin Media & Entertainment Commission.
Why she's here: Susana is the recipient of the prestigious Theatre Communications Group/National Endowment for the Arts Director Fellowship, and has been recognized as one of the 50 Most Influential Latinas by El Diario/La Prensa. Susana has directed at major regional and New York theaters, including last summer's Viva la Vida!, starring Tony Award-winner Mercedes Ruehl, and the hit musical Four Guys Named Jose.
What the critics are saying about her: "Susana Tubert's direction is excellent. It manages to give the play a dynamism that sustains the show's rhythm without gaps and the audience always involved and entertained." Mario Rojas - Comunidad


Lin-Manuel MirandaActor, Playwright
Who he is: Lin-Manuel is a writer and actor who works in New York City. As a founding member of Freestyle Love Supreme, an improvisational comedy and freestyle rap group, "Lin-Man" has toured internationally to high acclaim.
Why he's here: Lin-Manuel's first feature musical, In the Heights, an original hip-hop salsa musical, premiered on February of 2007 to rave reviews. It is still being staged successfully at New York's Theater 37.
What the critics are saying about him: "Heights is a tour de force for composer Miranda's virtuosic musical skills, and a valentine to both the old neighborhood and his family. His lyrics and flow are revelatory. His presence gives the musical specificity." Jerry Weinstein - Curtain Up


José W. Fernández Co-founder and Chairman of the Board,TeatroStageFest
Who he is: José is a partner at the law firm Latham & Watkins, LLC, and he heads Mayor Michael Bloomberg's NYC Latin Media & Entertainment Commission, which was formed to promote New York City as a center of Latino entertainment.
Why he is here: As commissioner of Latin Media & Entertainment, José joined Susana Tubert, and together they founded the Latino International Theater Festival of New York. As an attorney, José has handled some of Latin America's most complex acquisitions for corporations and private equity firms and has advised on financings, privatizations, securities offerings, arbitrations and joint ventures.
What he's said about the festival: "Bringing this festival to fruition has been a dream come true. The time has come for a celebration of theater from three continents that will appeal to Latino and non-Latino audiences alike. We are grateful to Mayor Bloomberg and our visionary sponsors for helping to make TeatroStageFest a reality."


Luis SalgadoDancer, Actor

Who he is: Luis started his dancing career at a young age and developed a passion for theater and dance that led to the creation of his own company and dance school in Puerto Rico when he was only a teenager.
Why he is here: Luis has worked as a dancer with renowned Latin artists such as Paulina Rubio, Thalía, Yerba Buena, Gilberto Santa Rosa, Olga Tañon, and many others. On Broadway, Luis has participated in: Evita, Aida, Fame, 42nd St., and The Mambo Kings.
What the critics are saying about him: "If you don't notice him for his mop of curly hair, you do because of his eye-popping dance moves, especially in the club scene, when he comes between would-be sweethearts Usnavi and Vanessa." Adrienne Onofri - Broadway World

Gypsy o Gipsy

GYPSY OF THE MONTH: Luis Salgado of 'In the Heights'
Tuesday, April 3, 2007; Posted: 9:46 AM - by Adrienne Onofri

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This is the first story about Luis Salgado written in English. In Spanish, it’s another story. Check out these headlines: “Luis Salgado saborea el éxito teatral” (“Luis Salgado savors theatrical success”), Primera Hora newspaper. “Línea ascendente” (“Rising star”), El Nuevo Día. And when it looked like he’d have his first Broadway role, in 2005’s The Mambo Kings, the newspaper Hoy Nueva York proclaimed, “El debut de un grande” (“A great one’s debut”).
He’s known in places where they speak other languages too. The German telecommunications giant Arcor twice hired him for an industrial, first as a dancer and the following year as choreographer. He’s gone to Japan three times to be the guest artist with a dance company.
Here in New York, where he’s lived for the last five years or so, Salgado currently has his most prominent role to date. In off-Broadway’s In the Heights, this season’s most ingratiating new musical, he’s one of the denizens of that barrio up near the top of the subway map—i.e., Washington Heights. If you don’t notice him for his mop of curly hair, you do because of his eye-popping dance moves, especially in the club scene, when he comes between would-be sweethearts Usnavi and Vanessa.

Salgado, 26, first heard about Heights from its original choreographer, Sergio Trujillo, with whom he’d worked on Mambo Kings. About a year and a half ago, Trujillo told the previously close-cropped Salgado to start growing out his hair for a role in the new show. Though he ended up passing on the In the Heights workshop to be dance captain for a regional production of Aida, Salgado let his hair grow all last year, even while he was filming two movies and playing other parts on stage—including prissy Bobby in A Chorus Line. “It gave it a comedy thing—like a little psychotic Bobby,” he laughs.Salgado was billed as a “special guest star” in Chorus Line, which was presented for six performances last fall at Centro de Bellas Artes de Caguas, outside San Juan. He was, after all, returning to his native Puerto Rico with some Hollywood credentials—dance double for star Diego Luna in 2004’s Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights and parts in scenes with Russell Crowe and Patrick Dempsey in, respectively, American Gangster and Enchanted (both scheduled for release this November). In 2004, Salgado had made another heralded return—for his hometown’s annual Carnaval Vegalteño, which was dedicated to him in recognition of his accomplishments and the example he set. Salgado grew up in Vega Alta, a city of 38,000 on Puerto Rico’s north coast, about 25 miles from San Juan. Coincidentally, it’s also where the family of In the Heights’ creator and star Lin-Manuel Miranda hails from. Miranda, whom Salgado hadn’t met before working on the show, wrote a lyric—sung by Daniela (Andréa Burns)—about “the hills of Vega Alta” for Heights.When Salgado was still a teenager, he started a dance academy in a local gym. He notes that, ironically, the government which would honor him with Carnaval after he’d left the island wasn’t that forthcoming with financial or logistical support during the five years his school operated. But it had 300 pupils—children and adults—and put on a show every six months. In the spring of 2001, Salgado and his students were invited to perform at New York’s Puerto Rican Day Parade (Vega Alta was one of that year’s parade honorees).

That trip led to Salgado’s decision to move to New York, and by the following year he was living in la Gran Manzana and working pretty regularly. But he’d arrived in the city without the childhood indoctrination most of his colleagues have had. “I was pretty much unaware of the power of musical theater until I came to New York. I didn’t grow up seeing Mary Poppins, I didn’t grow up seeing The Wizard of Oz,” Salgado says, though he does recall being profoundly affected by a nonmusical stage production of Pinocchio as an adolescent. “When I moved to New York, my first voice teacher told me ‘See more!’ and I’m like, ‘Who’s Seymour?’ And he was, ‘No. See more shows. You’ve got to go and study, you’ve got to learn.’ So I was in Blockbuster every week, renting movie musicals.”

Before he left Puerto Rico, he produced one last show with his school—“Por Amor al Arte” (“For Love of the Art”), the story of a Puerto Rican boy who goes to New York to pursue his showbiz dreams. “In a way it was an apology, because I was leaving,” says Salgado. Then and now, however, people around Salgado must know how important following one’s dreams is to him. He had named his school Ensueños—In Dreams—and his bio in the In the Heights program concludes “Dare to dream.” Last May, he co-choreographed and danced in Starting Today Dare to Dream…, a show performed in Jackson Heights, Queens, with students of the Lexington School for the Deaf.

“I am a dreamer, and I will always be a dreamer,” Salgado says, er, dreamily. “We can all dream; it’s free. If nobody wants to support it, you can go to your room and still dream.”
For the Starting Today job, he’d been referred by Maria Torres, who was his dance partner in The Mambo Kings and choreographed off-Broadway’s Four Guys Named José. She also was associate choreographer for Enchanted, Disney’s live-action/animation mash-up due out later this year, and Salgado assisted her on its Central Park scene. The film’s cast includes Hollywood stars Patrick Dempsey, Susan Sarandon and Amy (Junebug) Adams as well as such Broadway faves as Idina Menzel, Brian D’Arcy James, Judy Kuhn and Gregory Jbara.
Salgado also performs in a ballroom scene in Enchanted, one of three fall films in which he appears (barring any prerelease edits). In Julie Taymor’s Vietnam-era Across the Universe, which also features some animation as well as a score by the Beatles, he plays a hippie in the “Come Together” number and a sergeant in a dream sequence (the movie should be out in September). In American Gangster, a 1970s-set Ridley Scott opus about heroin smuggling, starring Russell Crowe and Denzel Washington, he dances in a club scene.His stage work since moving to New York includes ensemble roles in Fame off-Broadway, Aida at Westchester Broadway Theatre, and Evita (starring Felicia Finley) at Helen Hayes Theatre in Rockland County. He’s danced in Madison Square Garden concerts by pop stars Thalía and Paulina Rubio and in the free outdoor “Dancing for Life” performances presented in summer by Dancers Responding to AIDS. He’s also worked for SEA, Sociedad Educativa de las Artes, a bilingual youth theater company and arts education program. He performed in SEA’s revue of Latino music, ¡Tropical!, and choreographed its original musical Los Desertores/The Dropouts.
One of Salgado’s first jobs in New York was a role in “Broadway Workshop,” a 2002 miniseries starring Wayne Cilento, Amy Spanger and Alan Thicke that was created for PBS’ Egg: The Arts Show. “Broadway Workshop” chronicled the fictional development of a Broadway musical about lobstering, Traps!, but only one episode was televised before Egg went off the air.
A few years later, Salgado would be involved in another aborted project—the attempt to bring The Mambo Kings, a musical adaptation of the Antonio Banderas/Armand Assante movie (which had been based on an Oscar Hijuelos novel), to Broadway. He did the workshop in New York and the spring 2005 production in San Francisco. Then the company came back to New York, put up a marquee on the Broadway Theatre, announced an Aug. 18 opening, and gave the cast a week off. A few days into their paid vacation, they got the call that the Broadway run had been canceled.

“It was devastating, the hardest experience of our lives,” Salgado says. “The cast was so united, so committed, and we were all so proud because it was something that spoke our language, that was representing our people. That period—the ’50s—was beautifully represented. And suddenly it was gone, done, just out of the blue.”Despite Mambo Kings’ collapse, Salgado came away from the show with something valuable: a “new mentor.” That would be Sergio Trujillo, the choreographer, for whom he later did preproduction—helping to work out choreography—on All Shook Up, Kismet for City Center Encores! and a piece for Ballet Hispanico. (Trujillo left In the Heights after the workshop and was replaced by Andy Blankenbuehler for the actual production.) Salgado had had a childhood mentor back in Puerto Rico, a dance instructor named José Javier “Pepito” Rivera. “After Pepito,” he says, “I hadn’t had a person who challenged me, who gave me love within the art, who told me ‘You’re capable of doing that and I love it, but I want you to do this other thing.’ Sergio gave me all of that again.”
Salgado had found his first mentor at a crucial time. When he was 9, he went to Hawaii to live with his father, who’d divorced his mother when he was a baby. “I had a pretty difficult time because I didn’t speak English and I was pretty much living alone because my father was in the Army, my stepmother was very young—she wasn’t really taking care of me—school wasn’t in my native language. I had D’s and F’s in school. It was a tough change, because my mother always took so much care of me, I had A grades [in Puerto Rico]. I went from everything to nothing.”He moved back in with his mother in Puerto Rico the next year, but was still reeling from the painful time in Hawaii. A new afterschool arts program proved his salvation. It was run by Rivera, who became “like my father figure,” Salgado says. “Thanks to that program, I started finding again a lot of hope and things to do and focus on. My grades started coming back up, and I became again to be Luis, the same Luis who left town. But now this Luis had another hunger that I’d discovered and that allowed me to be myself.”

Rivera taught the kids dance, acting, poetry, and had them put on a performance every week. When Luis and his classmates were moving on to high school—and therefore would no longer be in the school with Pepito’s program—Rivera created a company to keep them as students. Around that time, Salgado began his formal dance training at a studio. Rivera introduced him to professional artists, and the connections led to jobs. At age 17, Salgado became a backup dancer for merengue singer Jailene Cintrón. He performed on her TV show, A Reír y a Gozar, and on other Puerto Rican television programs, including Voces en Función, Vale Mas, Eso Vale and De Noche con Iris y Sunshine.While Salgado was performing and running his own school, he was also enrolled at the University of Puerto Rico in Rió Piedras as an acting student. All the while, his mother was wary of this dream of his. “It was pretty much taboo,” he says. “In Puerto Rico, in the United States, no matter where you are, they don’t teach us to do what we love. They teach us to do something that can give you money.”

He moved to New York before he could graduate from college but has continued taking acting classes. He has plans for putting all the dramatic training to use. “Eventually I want to move more into acting,” he says. “Just plays.” His role models are Raul Julia and José Ferrer, two Puerto Ricans who were respected dramatic actors in U.S. But this dream is being deferred at present. “I feel I still have a long way to go, with my accent, with many other things,” Salgado explains. “When that time comes when I’m going to focus on that [acting], I will have had developed a name and a résumé that will support me and I will have the abilities.” Besides, he adds, “I am way too happy dancing at this moment!”
His happiness is due to not just what he’s doing but where. “I am so in love with In the Heights,” says Salgado, who’s the only cast member (besides veterans Olga Merediz and John Herrera) who was born outside the States. “Nothing in New York City has brought what it has. It’s not creating a stereotype; it’s creating the story of people, and that’s where the honesty’s at. This show just grabs the music and just grabs a story of people who are struggling.”
He’s not as effusive about the most famous Manhattan-set musical about Hispanics, primarily because of the image it has fixed in people’s minds. “When I step into an audition, I’m not always allowed to step in as Luis, but I have to be Bernardo. I have to represent what someone put out there that the Latino community was. It’s been accepted because it was so powerful and beautiful and has so much greatness to it. Yet West Side Story f---ed us up, I’m sorry to say. We have to now become a character that people understand.” The authentically puertorriqueño Salgado says he’s been told in auditions that he doesn’t have the “right accent” by people accustomed to the fake accents of actors who’ve played Bernardo. Despite his gripes, that was Salgado at last year’s Tony Awards, “playing” Bernardo when characters from shows produced by Hal Prince appeared on stage during a tribute to Prince.Salgado is so satisfied with his current gig, he turned down a role in a new musical adaptation of Carmen, being staged by Cirque du Soleil director Franco Dragone for a June-July run at La Jolla Playhouse. He does moonlight from In the Heights, though: He’s choreographing recording artist Jimmy Flavor’s performance at the Miss Dominican Republic USA pageant, to be held May 5 in the Bronx, and is restaging SEA’s 2002 show The Dropouts for performances at Manhattan’s El Museo del Barrio on May 24 and 25.

Salgado, whose yen to perform began with childhood magic tricks using cards and “pañuelos” (handkerchiefs), keeps honing some offstage talents as well. He’s an avid photographer, still loyal to 35mm, and has painted art for his apartment—which is in Harlem, not the Heights. And “I love writing,” he says. “I write thoughts, I write quotes, I write plays. Hopefully I’ll be able to give more effort to do that and I’ll have some good material there to publish someday.”Photos of Luis in performance, from top: in a Puerto Rican production of Chorus Line last fall; in off-Broadway’s Fame; with Maria Torres in The Mambo Kings; in In the Heights, with Andréa Burns and Eliseo Roman. [Heights photo by Joan Marcus]

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Luis Salgado: ‘Gitano boricua’ en Broadway

El actor y bailarín puertorriqueño Luis Salgado acaba de ser destacado como “Gypsy of the Month” en Broadway.(Foto suministrada)
El actor y bailarín puertorriqueño Luis Salgado fue seleccionado “Gipsy of the Month”, por su ascendente trayectoria en la meca del teatro musical: Broadway. Como sugiere su título en inglés, el reconocimiento es otorgado a artistas que han logrado destacarse en más de una de las áreas artísticas que involucran la presentación de un musical. El honor coincide con la doble participación de Salgado en el musical “In the Heights”.
“Esta selección me honra sobremanera porque ‘In the Heights’ es una obra que se está presentando off-Broadway y llevo poco tiempo radicado en Nueva York”, destacó el vegalteño, que reside en la Gran Urbe desde 2002 y que recientemente formó parte del elenco de “A Chorus Line” en Puerto Rico.
Como “Gipsy of the Month”, durante este mes aparecerá una entrevista del actor y bailarín en la página de Internet www.broadwayworld.com, primer recurso informativo de Broadway, en la que Salgado hablará de sus comienzos, su trayectoria, sus planes y sueños.
“In the Heights”, su graduación artística-
En el musical “In the Heights” (de los productores de “Rent”), que se presenta en el teatro 37 Arts, Luis Salgado interpreta el personaje de José así como forma parte del equipo creativo, precisamente como asistente de coreógrafo en todo lo relacionado con los ritmos latinos. De esta forma, su creatividad se ejemplifica al compás del merengue, la salsa y el reggaetón; ritmos que en el musical enmarcan escenas en las vidas de los latinos de la comunidad Washington Heights de Nueva York.
“El 8 de febrero fue la apertura oficial del musical, luego de un mes de prueba (‘previews´). Estoy satisfecho con el resultado pues esta pieza teatral, de una forma honesta, apela mucho a nuestra gente latina, tanto por su contenido, su música como por la escenografía”, expresa el artista.
El musical y su elenco han recibido críticas muy positivas de la prensa especializada en la Gran Urbe. El periodista Juan Fernando Merino, de El Diario de Nueva York, escribió recientemente: “Ha sido un sueño esporádico... y esquivo. Desde el enorme éxito de ‘West Side Story’ en 1957, de vez en cuando, muy de vez en cuando, un musical con tema y protagonistas latinos aparece en Broadway, off-Broadway o en algún teatro experimental... ¿(Será éste) un exitoso Upper Upper West Side Story de nuestros tiempos? El sueño no es inalcanzable a juzgar por la excelente música, la vibrante letra, el elenco de excepcionales cantantes y bailarines —que incluye una ganadora del premio Tony (Priscilla López) y varios nominados— así como el apoyo decidido de unos productores que han creído en el proyecto y le han brindado su apoyo para un lanzamiento por lo alto y en un teatro, el 37 Arts, con capacidad para un público numeroso”.
Si bien la reacción de la prensa y del público (en especial la de la comunidad Washington Heights en la que el musical se concentra) motiva sobremanera a Luis, la del coreógrafo de la pieza (Andy Blankenbuehler) lo emociona de modo especial. Cuando vio el musical, Blankenbuehler tuvo palabras de elogio para la labor de Salgado en la pieza teatral.
Luis Salgado forma parte del elenco del nuevo musical “In the Heihts” que actualmente se presenta en el circuitoteatral off Broadway de Nueva York.(Foto suministrada)
“Con sus cabellos rizados y su innegable carisma, yo sabía que Luis Salgado iba a captar de inmediato mi visión, cristalizándola hábilmente sobre el escenario... Luis es un artista sumamente creativo. Y ya sea en o fuera del escenario, él captura la magia del momento, convirtiéndola en puro oro”, apuntó elexperimentado coreógraf anglosajón.
Para el actor y bailarín vegalteño cada elogio es un espaldarazo a su determinación de abrirse paso en el difícil mundo del espectáculo. Y con cada aplauso de reconocimiento el artista contempla los frutos de las 13 horas diarias que, durante cuatro meses, estuvo ensayando preparándose para este proyecto que confía llegue eventualmente a los escenarios de Broadway.
“Más que un reto, ‘In the Heights’ me ha brindado la oportunidad de cambiar, afinar, ensayar y participar en una historia que me toca como patriota. Y por eso reconozco que ésta ha sido mi graduación”, apunta Luis Salgado exhortando al público a no perderse “un espectáculo de gran calidad que representa al latino de forma honesta”.
Trayectoria y planes de Luis Salgado-
La exitosa puesta en escena de “In the Heigts” es un nuevo acierto en el resumé de del actor y bailaín puertorriqueño, que incluye intervenciones previas en musicales como “Fame on 42st”, “Evita”, “Aida” y “The Mambo Kings” (este último presentado en California con actuaciones estelares de Albita y Jaime Camil). Más recientemente, a finales de 2006, Salgado encarnó a “Bobby” en el musical “A Chorus Line”, presentado en Puerto Rico. Para su sorpresa, a sólo cuatro días antes de la que sería la séptima y última presentación del musical, tuvo que prepararse para interpretar a uno de los personajes principales, “Paul”, recibiendo nuevamente el aplauso del público y de la crítica.
Luis descubrió su interés en las artes escénicas a los nueve años. A los 17 años comenzó a desempeñarse como bailarín de figuras como Jailene Cintrón, Olga Tañón, Paulina Rubio y Thalía. Para esos años inició sus estudios universitarios matriculándose en el Departamento de Drama de la Universidad de Puerto Rico (U.P.R.). Ya en una etapa posterior se convirtió en maestro de baile y actuación, fundando en su natal Vega Alta la academia Ensueños. Pero, según expresa, “con mucho dolor” tuvo que cerrarla para ir tras sus sueños artísticos. No obstante, siempre que regresa a Puerto Rico o viaja alrededor del mundo – como hizo en Japón al participar en “Zap II” - ofrece talleres de baile y actuación a niños y jóvenes, para invitarlos a que hagan del arte un vehículo de expresión.
Así, el sueño de Luis es seguir nutriéndose de experiencias para en su momento regresar a su patria y contribuir al desarrollo de las artes, ya sea actuando, dirigiendo teatro o cine o colaborando con un guión. Mientras tanto, este año podremos verlo a través de la pantalla grande en la cinta “Enchanted”, de los estudios de Walt Disney, y en la cinta animada “Across the Universe”.

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Escrito Por: José Acevedo Negró

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Luis Salgado puertorriqueño reconocido como el Gipsy of the Month en Broadway. Reconocimiento que se le otorga a artistas que han logrado destacarse en mas de un área que involucran la presentación de un musical, más bien reconociendo su participación en la pieza musical "In the Heights".

El artista que para el mes de Noviembre estuvo en Puerto Rico su isla natal presentándose en la pieza musical, "A Chorus Line" presentada por Dramadaza Platinum donde este artista en los ensayos se preparaba para presentar el personaje de Bobby y cuatro días antes de la séptima función tuvo que prepararse para interpretar los movimientos y líneas del personaje Paúl, en conversación y indagando por los acontecimientos de esta pieza el productor y coreógrafo de la puesta en escena Waldo Gonzales nos menciona que Luis es un joven muy "Fajón" y que le alegra que un joven como el aya llegado a lograr los logros ya que el talento de Puerto Rico trabaja con unas limitaciones, y un joven como Luis que se levanta temprano para bregar con miles de cosas al día hace que se vea que es un ser humano impecable como luchadora, además nos menciona que este es muy conocido por la Salsa y luego por el Jazz.

En estos momentos Luis se esta presentando en la pieza teatral "In the Heights" en el Teatro 37 en Broadway, piesa teatral de los creadores del famoso musical "Rent" en la cual se destaca presentando el personaje de José y además es asistente del coreógrafo en todas aquellas areas del ritmo latino ya que en esta pieza teatral se resaltan los ritmos de la salsa, merengue y el Reggaetón cuyos ritmos enmarcan las vidas de los latinos en la comunicad de NY. Este musical se esta presentado desde el mes de Febrero y el artista menciona que esta muy satisfecho con el resultado que a tomado la producción, y que apela mucho el publico latino.

Luis Salgado le suma a su lista de participaciones en musicales que a formado parte como: Fame On 42'ST, Evita, Aida, The Mambo Kings y A Chorus Line. Luis empezó desde los nueve años de edad, y ya a los 17 años comenzó a formar parte del cuerpo de baile de figuras como Jailene Cintrón, Olga Tañon, Paulina Rubio y Thalia, cuyo joven para ese tiempo fue estudiante del Departamento de Drama en la Universidad de Puerto Rico (U.P.R.). Luego este crea su academia de baile llamada Ensueños en el pueblo donde nació Vega Alta, cuya academia fue cerrada ya que este deseaba lograr sus sueños y lograr las metas que se había ejemplado. Y como podríamos visualizar los a logrado pero no todo esta en las tablas sino que para este próximo año se podrá ver en la pantalla grande, en dos producciones de Walt Disney Studios, como "Enchanted" y "Across the Universe". Mientras tanto podrán ver las entrevistas que le hacen al artista durante todo este mes en http://webmail.talentopuertorriqueno.com/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.broadwayworld.com%2F como también podría conocerlo mejor visitado su portal cibernético http://webmail.talentopuertorriqueno.com/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.luissalgado.com%2F y para los residentes latinos de NY podrá comprar los boletos para "In the Heights" que se esta presentando en el Teatro 37 Arts, ubicado en el 450 Oeste de la calle 37, en Manhattan entrando a http://webmail.talentopuertorriqueno.com/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ticketmaster.com%2F o llamando a (210) 307-4100 y/o (800) 755-4000

Luis Salgado destacado en Broadway

Luis Salgado destacado en Broadway

La biografía del actor puertorriqueño será publicada en la página de Internet que cuenta los acontecimientos más importantes de la industria de cine estadounidense. (Archivo Primera Hora / Ana María Abruña Reyes)

viernes, 30 de marzo de 2007
Aixa Sepúlveda Morales / Primera Hora

El actor puertorriqueño Luis Salgado ha sido seleccionado como el “Gypsy of the Month” del espacio cibernético www.broadwayworld.com, en el que se reseña la trayectoria de los talentos que habitan en el sector teatral de Broadway.
Este boricua, radicado en la ciudad de Nueva York hace cinco años, se ha destacado como coreógrafo y actor en distintos musicales de Off-Broadway, más recientemente en “In the Heights”, pieza que ha logrado excelentes críticas.
En esta historia, que relata vivencias de jóvenes adultos en los clubes nocturnos del sector neoyorquino Washington Heights, Luis Salgado, además de tener un pequeño personaje, trabajó como “mano derecha” del coreógrafo estadounidense Andy Blankenbuehler. Después de este trabajo, su nombre ha ganado muy buena reputación en el mundo de Broadway. Tanto así, que fue llamado del espacio cibernético para decirle que sería “el gitano del mes de abril”.
“Me siento gitano porque tengo muchas pasiones y, de cierta forma, siento que me paso viajando entre esos distintos mundos y aprendiendo de ellos”, dijo a PRIMERA HORA.
Cuando se otorga este espacio a algún actor, por lo general, el trabajo aumenta pues están ante el ojo de más productores. Cuando un actor es seleccionado el “Gypsy of the Month” se publica una entrevista que recoge detalladamente su trayectoria, convirtiéndose en una especie de resumé.
“Esto te expone, no importa el trabajo que haya hecho en el momento, lo hace accesible a toda la comunidad de Broadway”, añadió el vegalteño, quien conoció que había sido seleccionado hace dos semanas.
El espacio broadway.com informa sobre los acontecimientos en la industria de Broadway, más presenta variadas entrevistas.
Además de sus presentaciones este año en el musical “In the Heights”, Luis Salgado se prepara para los estrenos de las películas “Enchanted”, de los estudios de Walt Disney, y “Across the Universe”.