• About Media Noche Salsa

• About the collection

• Clubs pages (want your club here?)
  Levels pages of clubs which use the Media Noche collection (Club pages coverage statistics)
  
  
  • Media Noche Salsa (Classic page)
  
  
  Israel
  • Media Noche Tel Aviv (MENTA)
  • Media Noche Givat Ram (Media Ram)
  • Media Noche Ariel (currently using the classic page)
  • Media Noche Kiryat Shmona
  • Summer Salsa (external)
  • Latino Beat
    • Old page (2004-2010)
  • Salsa4Fun
    • Salsa4Fun Rueda Collection (Hebrew. With english variation names.)
  • Latino del Mundo - Focus club (active till 2005)
  • Latingate - web page
    • Old (printed) page
    • Latingate Rueda Dictionary (Hebrew. With english variation names.)
  • Havanaway
    • Havanaway videos for rehersal - temporarily unavailable (Hebrew. With english variation names.)
  
  Germany
  • Rueda 18 (Munich)
    • Rueda 18 variations page at their website (with links to youtube)

• About Media Noche Lindy Hop

• About Media Noche Bachata

• About the collection

Media Noche (AKA Media Noche Social Club) is the group of Initiatives (mostly Salsa related) cooperating under the Media Noche title.

The two basic principles of Media Noche are:

1. Those who know teach those who don't know
2. If you won't do it, it won't happen.

Media Noche currently has several groups running weekly Salsa events. In all Media Noche Salsa evenings those who know teach those who don't know (even to the point that the advanced group teaches the beginners part of the time, etc.).

Media Noche and the Jerusalem (Mt. scopus) group (origin of French hill group) was established on November 22nd 2005 by Ofer Waldman and Nufar Grinshpan.

The Haifa group was formed in 2010 by Gaby Shaar and Itay Rosental.

The Tel Aviv group was formed in 2010 by Nir Krakowski and Anna Reznikovski

The Givat Ram (Jerusalem) group was formed in October 2010 by Yossi Margoninsky and Nir Weiner. it's establishing group members were (in alphabetical order): Lior Bar, Yotam Katznelson, Avital and Yoel Krupnik, Sigal Maon, Yossi Margoninsky, Alon Milchgrub, Michael Morozov, David Taub, Ofer Waldman and Nir Weiner.

The Kiryat-Shmona group was formed in March 2011 by Ofer Waldman and Nofar Avrahami.

The Seoul group was formed in October 2nd 2011 by Chen Eliskewitz.

The Shanghai group was formed in October 28th 2011 by Meodi Cohen.

Our collection of variation clips documents the standard way of performing these variations, in Israel and abroad, and is meant to allow people from different places dance in coordination in Ruedas, and remember elements they learned.

As we got help from people abroad - Denmark, Venezuela, USA, Argentina, Peru and more, we hope our clips will help people from all around the world get aquinted with new elements of the Cuban/Miami style.

The Media Noche Collection contains demonstrations, with no explanations.

It is meant to assist students who want to recall what they have learned, or instructors who look for some new moves. It definitely isn't a replacement for an instructor! No collection can give the personal comments, insights and emphasis that an instructor gives.

Using the collection is under the user's responsibility, and at your own risk.

Whether you are a club owner, or a simple dancer, We will be happy to add your club levels/variations page to the list, with all relevant links to the Media Noche collection clips.

The first requirement is that we will have the page creator's permission for this (usually the club/academy owner). Once this permission will be sent to vars.collection@media-noche.org, we can start working on it!

1. Pages made by the collection team: The collection team can create a copy of your club's page for you, add links to it, and maintain it here, at media-noche.org. We will make sure to add links to this page when we upload new clips or replace clips, so it will remain up to date.

   This option is good for all clubs, whether they have their own website or not, and even if have their own variations collection (it's free publicity).

2. External pages: Clubs with actively maintained sites of their own, sometimes already have a levels/variations page in their site, with their own design, and they just want to add links to the media noche collection.

   In this case, once they finish the linking, we create a link in the list to the relevant page on their site.

   We will also be happy to provide them with a comfortable list of the links they need for their page (so nothing will be missed). Yet, it's their responsibility to check for new or replaced clips, since we have no way of processing and analyzing their page.

Comments:

• We don't mess with inter-club politics. Any club who will want to have his linked page in the list, will get our help.

• The pages can contain extra information on the club, if desired.

• The collection is not commercial, and all activity is done by vulenteers. So no payment is involved, or will be involved.

Feel free to contact us at vars.collection@media-noche.org with any further question or request.

different Salsa clubs sometimes have different versions of variations. The club pages links to the clip which shows the closest version taought in the page's club. This means that sometimes a certain variation name in the page will link to a clip with a totally different name. This is OK, since the name in the clip is a unique name used in the collection (to avoid confusion), while the name in the page is the name which the page user probably knows and prefers.

For example: Clubs from Venezuela will usually have "Setenta Y Cinco" linked to the collection's "Setenta Complicado" clip, since it is identical to their local version of "Setenta Y Cinco". The variation "Setenta Complicado" in their page will be linked to the collection's "Setenta Complicado Latina".

Second example: Club pages from israel will usually have "Setenta" linking to the collection's "Setenta (Israeli)", while most other clubs will have it linked to the collection's "Setenta (Miami)".

Third example: the names "Enchufla", "Enchufle", "Enchufe", "Deshecho" in club pages will usually all link to the collection's "Enchufala" clip, since these are all different names for the same variation

Maybe, as time will go by, different clubs will start using the standard collection's names, or maybe they'll just be aware that they are called differently in other places. Both are good options.

1. It is not a combination - meaning it has contains least one element which doesn't appear in other variations. There are countless combinations, and new ones are invented and forgotten all the time, documenting them is meaningless

2. It is well known - it is known in several clubs, or well based in a certain club, for a considerable period of time. meaning it is not expacted to disappear.

3. It appears in a collection of variations known to a considerable group of dancers - meaning that even if forgotten, it is well documented and has the option to become relevant again.

4. It appears in a club page - if it is taught by any club which has a club page in the Media Noche collection club pages list, it should be in the collection.

Any variation that doesn't answer to any of these conditions will not appear in the Media Noche colection.

We ran into several cases in which a club has a local version of a certain variation, differet by only minor elements.
For example: Setenta has at least four different versions.
On the one hand we try to be a helpful tool for the dancers, reminding them what they have learned.
On the other hand we don't want countless versions of the same variation in the collection, with negligible differences.

So there are several possible solutions for a local version, which we choose after advising the relevant club's team:

1. If the club see the version differences as negligible, or the club simply want their dancers to be coordinated with the rest of the salsa scene, we'll link the variation name to the main version in the collection, commenting in the variation page comments on the possible version differences.
   
2. If the club wants their local versions documented:
   1. If the version already has a clip under a different name, we will link to that clip. By using the page the dancers will know it's a local version. By using the clip they'll have a globaly unique name for it.
      
      
   2. If the version has no clip, it will be filmed under the name scheme "variation clubname" such as "Kentucky Complicado Latinobeat" or "Setenta Latingate".
      

Our collection of Line dances clips documents people dancing various line dances known in Israel.

The Media Noche line dances Collection documents people dancing for their own pleasure, with no further claims.

It is meant to assist dancers who want to recall or get to know line dances. It definitely isn't a replacement for an instructor! No collection can give the personal comments, insights and emphasis that an instructor gives.

Using the collection is under the user's responsibility, and at your own risk.