CARLOS MORA

Born in the Dominican Republic, Carlos Mora has taught Casino and Rueda style salsa for the past eight years.
Carlos been dancing all of his life, but he first learned Rueda when he was living in Miami in the 90s. It was there, at a restaurant in Little Havana, that he saw the Rueda in action. The dancers seemed to be having the time of their lives, and Carlos knew that he had to join them. So he signed up at the famous Miami Latin dance school, "Salsa Lovers," and studied for 2 years with its founder, Rene Gueits.
Life eventually brought Carlos to Las Vegas, New Mexico, where he discovered there was a strong demand for Latin Dance instruction. He ended up teaching Rueda all over the city: Luna Community College, Robertson High School, West Las Vegas High School, The United World College, New Mexico Highlands University, and even in the middle and elementary schools. As word of Carlos's fun-loving and de-dicated teaching style spread throughout the New Mexico salsa community, he also found himself teaching in Santa Fe at Odd Fellows Hall and as far as Albuquerque at Selah

Studio and the University of NM.
The more Carlos taught, the more he saw that his students wanted to continue their Salsa and Rueda steps outside the classroom, so Carlos founded a salsa dance performing team, "Los Rumberos Salsa Club."
"Los Rumberos" toured all over Northern New Mexico and were twice invited to compete in Miami at the Salsa Rueda Congress of the Americas, where, amidst stiff competition, "Los Rumberos" earned third place one year and sixth place another.
After that, Carlos felt sure that New Mexico was destined to be a great salsa state, so in 2005 he organized the first Latin Dance Festival in Las Vegas, which which attracted musicians and dancers from all over New Mex-ico. Word of the festival spread, and in 2006 it attracted an even larger audience with plenty of out of state dancers who came to celebrate the special "sabor" of New Mexico salsa.
Carlos now bases  himself in Santa Fe where he is teaching salsa rueda and bachata. He has also taught at Moving People Dance Social Dance Program, Desert Academy and Santa Fe High School. His performing

team, Santa Rueda Salsa Dance Team has performed at the Santa Fe Art Institute Annual Fundraising, Southwest Health Care Annual Fundraising, Santa fe Reporter Annual Block Party, Santa Fe Fourth of July Bandstand Celebration 2008, Santa Fe Summer Bandstand as part of Moving People, at Grants, NM People fair, Albuquerque Salsa Festival, at the Creativity For Peace Fundraising, etc.
The weekend of July 4th, 2008, Carlos organized the First Salsa Rueda Mini Congress of Santa Fe.  Dance students from several states came together to take workshops, dance socially and share their love for salsa rueda dancing.  The event was a total success and has now been established as a regular Santa Fe event. 
Finally, besides New Mexico, Carlos has taught salsa workshops in Savannah, GA, Austin, TX and Minneapolis, MN. Carlos currently teaches rueda as well as bachata dancing at Pomegranate studio in Santa Fe, NM.  He also teaches salsa rueda one credit classes at New Mexico Highlands University and a rueda class at the Plaza Hotel in Las Vegas, NM.