NZ dancers crowned World Salsa Champions

NZ dancers crowned World Salsa Champions

On March 11-13, 2016 New Zealand salsa dance representatives and One Tree Hill (AKL) residents Giancarlo & Masha Johansson took out the top prize at the World Salsa Championship Professional category at the Hong Kong Salsa Festival.

Quote from DANZ magazine; "This is the first time New Zealand has had a Professional World Salsa Champion couple. The world-title journey has been a long and arduous one for the couple - since 2011 in fact! A combination of fierce competition, different competition formats and illness held the top spot just out of reach. But, now, the team's hard work and dedication has deservedly seen them take it away!"
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In 2012 the couple took out 2nd place at the same competition featured in The Aucklander;
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/aucklander/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503372&objectid=11058201

Since the article above, they have competed at 3 world championships being just outside of the top spot, placing in the top 4 (3rd, 4th and 4th).
Giancarlo & Masha have been dancing competitively together since 2006 (10 years) and are multiple national and international salsa dance champions. In fact New Zealand’s most successful salsa dance couple of all time.
Taking out the 2016 World Salsa Championships in Hong Kong is the result of lots of hard work, persistence and dedication.

The couple are begin featured tonight on TV show “The Beat Goes On”;
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Up next for the duo is the FANIA World Salsa Championships 7-11 December, 2016 in Atlanta, USA.
The FANIA World Salsa Championships is a closed competition where only the world’s elite salsa dance couples who have won recognised world competitions and other international competitions, are exclusively selected by the organising committee and approved by the head judge of the competition. No other New Zealand dancers have ever been invited to such exclusive competition.

Below is a link to an article on our website with photos and video;
http://salsadance.co.nz/index.php/latest-news/latest-news/world-salsa-championships

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