Testimonials
Great words from all over the world!“I respect so much your efforts to promote authentic music and dance that have soul and substance, here in Romania, everywhere, especially in our times when music and dance are fused and most of them are made to sell and be easily ‘digested’ … Thank you!”
“Hi Josué, we met in your musicality workshop in Croatia. You talked directly to my heart, you name quite exactly, what was that missing part and why – to the detail. Your comments about the bass in the music were just perfect. Pass on your gift of waking up dancers from being technicians to becoming true dancers!”
“Hey Josué, so I watched your film on Sunday and I have to say that for me it was really one of the highlites of the festival! I discovered the whole new, very interesting dimension of Salsa! And thank you for introducing me to the Palladium style on the dance-floor. It was quite a pleasure! It felt so natural! I hope that you had a great time in Croatia!”
“Hi Josué! We’ve met here in Budapest! I want to say thank you to participate on your classes and to see your films. What you gave us is hard to write down. I’ve been dancing for five years. It’s my life, but after I saw your La Época movie I feel something different. You open my eyes and I see the roots and I will dance a different way. Thank you again!”
“Hola Sr. Josué! You’ve made quite an impact on me since you visited us in Michigan! I’ve been interested in dance and musicality but didn’t know who to seek. Your documentary is a giant step in the right direction. The amount of what I have yet to learn can be overwhelming but you have given me hope again and excited me to want to learn more!”
“Hola! I heard about La Época a while ago, and after viewing some of your work all I can say is wow wow wow! My husband and I were so happy to hear that someone else, you and the legends in your movies, feel the same way we do about the music! So inspiring to feel the rhythm!”
“There are no words that can express the gratitude I have for you coming and presenting your documentary here in Alabama! It has given my husband a better understanding of where I was coming from because it is not easy for me to express in words what is in my soul He couldn’t understand why my style of dancing was so different than others here. You have reignited my fire!”
“La Época !!!! If you are a dancer, u got to see those movies and sacrifice one night out and purchase his movies! It is culture, legacy, knowledge, and very inspiring! As a salsa teacher, u must see it!! Greetings to La Época for monster work! Contact them! Don’t forget his very real and true words: knowledge is movement!!!!”
“Thanks to La Época! Your movies were very inspiring and the musicality masterclass workshops were mind-boggling, but I found it a great day! Keep up the good work! Amsterdam will be different, now.”
“Thank you La Época for the music knowledge that you shared with us here in India! I’m sure it will take me a long distance.”
“Dear Josué, I have to confess that you’re the festival!!!!! More than that, my kids felt wonderful on the workshop held by you!!! Come again to Bucharest!!”
“Hello Josué, Was a pleasure to meet you! It is unique how you express and how you feel music and dance. Unique way of being is what sets us apart from others!!! It is a risk that we assume, as artists, when we expose our creations on stage. Continue to do what you do because you do well and most important about you is HOW YOU DO IT IS UNIQUE!!! Ps: excuse my English.”
“Hola hola! It was a great pleasure meeting you; a beautiful person! I really enjoyed the weekend, but sadly not as complete as I wanted. Come to Bucharest, I will have all the time to dedicate! Plus, dancers here really need to understand that having a well-based cultural knowledge in this area is as important as our dance skills. You know, I heard about you from when you visited Romania some years ago. Thank you for everything. You were great!”
“Most people think that learning complex ‘moves’ will make them dancers and most teachers respond to this demand when in fact, what they teach is sophisticated gymnastics. You are one of the few explaining that dancing means interpreting a music and telling a story.”
“OMG reading now some of La Época’s notes just gave me so much life! damn! He goes hard! That’s a passionate individual right there!”
“La Época’s workshops were a positive experience for all who were there! I found myself reflecting and replaying large parts of the lectures in my heat today at work. Thank you for opening my eyes! Like so many have already said, my mind was blown in a good way!”
“That musicality workshop was one of the best workshops I have ever attended! I enjoyed it very much.”
“Thank you, thank you, thank you for the opportunity to participate in your genius workshops!!! I have no words to describe my admiration of Josué (La Época) and his knowledge! One Man Band is an understatement! Damn clever man! It is an honor for me that I could learn from him! I could in these workshops to attend even a hundred times, and it still would not be enough!”
“My passion for Latin music and culture grew after seeing La Época films and inspired me to create my blog. If you want to learn the history of ‘salsa’ music and the dancers who laid the groundwork I HIGHLY recommend La Época.”
“I’m glad I’m surrounded by people who understand and who are contributing to the overall progress of dance by teaching the concepts and theories of musicality. I personally do not take a musicality class unless it’s with the likes of La Época, Carlos Cinta, Eddie Torres, and few others.”
“The knowledge you passed to us is more than valuable! Forever changing the way we listen to music and transform our steps and movements For that and for being such a beautiful person with a lovely way of being and treating/teaching others, you may consider yourself more than welcome to Romania any time!”
“Thank you for such great workshops. It was really inspiring to see you dancing! In my country nobody dance like you. I’ll now have to work on myself and learn how to listen music.”
“Thank you!!!! It was an amazing time… Thanks a lot for all. It was a really great pleasure to meet you, to look at your moves when you were dancing. You didn’t feel the music that time…YOU WERE a music”
“Josué, you replaced many artists that used to accompany me. Your music is my sanctuary and my every day light. I’m not a musician but I appreciate good music. Simply you are a great artist and yet humble. Big congratulations to your parents definitely! I wake up to your song ‘Mejoraré’ and I play on repeat ‘Vale Más’ and ‘Verás’ as they do miracles inside me and my head.”
“I’ve been watching Josue’s videos on facebook and youtube, and recently had a great pleasure to meet him in person. You rarely have a chance to see such passion, commitment, knowledge, and desire to share it all with others.”
“Hola Josue Sir. I was one of the attendees at the International Dance Festival who was privileged enough to attend your workshops. Your workshops were of immense help and have literally changed the way I look and feel about Salsa! You made me realize that Salsa is much more than what I have learnt in terms of shines and turn patterns. I know that your workshops were not even the tip of the iceberg and there is loads and loads to learn. I have become a big fan and admirer of yours.”
“Hello, Josue Joseph. We met at the Mambocity 5 Star Congress in London. I’ve seen Part I of La Época and taken your musicality workshop and loved it! They got me even more inspired to learn about the music that I love and dance to! Quite an eye-opener!”
“I’m an alien in the Salsa world. I want to learn how to move and stop being blocked. After your workshops in Split, Croatia, I realized that there is so much more to dancing than counting steps. I did not feel confident because I couldn’t relax in dancing, but your presentation gave me another point of view. Thank you, and I wish you all the best.”
“Thank you again for the weekend in Cluj, Romania, and for all the wonders you taught us! We danced together and I told you are amazing, unique, and that you gave sense to everything I do. I just wanted to hold the time still every five seconds to absorb everything! Thank you! I enjoyed every moment! Something got stuck in my head!”
“Hi Josué, I started thinking very much about the music after your workshops here in Vilnius! What you did for us here in Lithuania was wow!! After you taught, much more instructors told us to follow the music not only work on stops, and I think that this is thanks to you! By the way, I am now listening to your sister’s song – one of my favorites these days!”
“You know, I was very shy in coming and telling you that it’s me to whom you talked on FB, and it took me Friday and Saturday to finally come and invite you to dance. Thank you for making us realize the great rhythms of each song! On my way to the airport, I listened only to your soundtracks! You, your father and your sister are unique and legendary!”
“I checked your website! I want all of it! it’s sad that we as dancers don’t have a freakN clue as far as the different rhythms in music! Your films will help me know which rhythm I’m dancing to! Don’t want 2 be a Salsa robot like I see A LOT! My heart beats clave n I know so does yours!”
“Hello! and WOW!!! Thank you so much for your words and appreciation… you have really given me a boost of confidence in myself! I am so glad that you came to Cluj to teach us and show us your movies! Now I try to find the exact rhythm in every Salsa or Cha-Cha-Cha, and I am still listening to the songs from the soundtracks every day! Because you gave me so much confidence in myself, I know what I will do!”
“So blessed to have had the opportunity to take part in a day of workshops with La Época today and hear the expert knowledge he had to offer on musicality, history, and lost rhythms in Salsa!! Really opened my eyes! Amazing day! Thank you so much for providing the Irish Salsa community with such an invaluable opportunity!”
“We thought we knew Salsa… Matrix showed us there is no spoon. Josué showed us that there is no Salsa but instead only a mixed bag of rhythms. La Época really opened our minds. Thank you for coming to Romania to teach us!”
“Thank you for teaching us! Your workshop was full of technical knowledge, which was off great help! Awesome experience!”
“Hello Josué. It was such a great pleasure! We are honoored in India and I have been following your YouTube channel religiously and I am hooked on La Época!!!”
“I must say, I was just introduced to La Época a couple of hours ago and since then I’ve been watching the trailers and I’m amazed! As a dancer and former musician, I finally found something that explains things that I naturally feel! Thank you so much!! I’m learning more so I can be only an instructor, but an educator of history and culture, as well!”
“Hola, Josué. I was very touched by your presence, by your knowledge, by your work, a titanic work… For me, you are one of the ‘I have to meet this person’ because of all what you are. Meeting you is the answer of my prayers. I remembered that everyone was interested to touch you, to talk to you, to be observed by you … I felt that you are for us more than the author, the musician, the dancer! Thank you, God! Thank you, Josué. Hope to meet you again!”
“Had it not been for documentaries like yours, many of us would still be walking around oblivious to the obvious facts about the relationships between music and dance. It’s definitely changed my approach to teaching and to my personal growth as a dancer!”
“I applaud La Época for taking a difficult path in helping dancers connect the DANCING with the MUSIC. AAMAZING!!”
“I learned so much yesterday. What stands out to me is how the dance connects to the music in a very real way. And I really appreciate the breakdown that La Época gave about the varying Latin rhythms and how they play with the basic format of the song.”
“OMG! This was such an amazing workshop!! I’m glad that there is someone like La Época taking the time to REALLY educate us on Salsa!”
“I understand you’re constantly teaching festivals and congresses around the world and spreading your own in-depth knowledge about Musicality and Salsa Rhythms, so I will be lucky if you reply or even read this, but could you suggest any hits or tips for me? I feel I’ve only dipped my toe into and I want to fully immerse myself in this. Hope you’re enjoying your travels!”
“i saw you at other congresses. i was at the Saturday event and i saw your performance. The words and the music truly moved me – you touched my heart. The performance got to me. a lot of realizations. i am moved by an amazing artist”
“Being a leader, being, an artist, you are by definition pushing the boundaries… every day. It takes guts, talent, it takes LOVE! When you’re in your flow, you become like a mirror and people see their own shortcomings more clearly in the face of a glowing person and artist – YOU!”
“It was a pleasure meeting you at the festival! Dancing with you was a refreshing experience! Your style is so different than any other dancer I danced with. It is very nice that you decided to educate people and share your knowledge! And thank you for the compliments and the advice that you gave me! I enjoyed!”
“Josué, I have so much respect and adoration for you! You are truly masterful and brilliant. Thank you for sharing yourself and in doing so, motivating and inspiring others to their potential!!”
“Josué, you are a GOOD person….good good good Josué. You have a sweet and deeply heart, a deeply soul and i feel who you are…and you are ‘deeply pure. remember this and put it your heart body and soul.”
“OMG… Josué!!!!!!!!!! Your music is sooooooooooo BEAUTIFUL that it took my breath away when listening .. and I wanted to do it again and again and again not to lose any detail, any instrument .. amazing experience!!!! Your father must be with a beautiful soul. Definitely this is peace. It touched me so deeply! Touched .. these are the moments that remain in the heart forever”
“Thank you La Época for your performance. My face was soaked with tears. I needed that perspective from heaven. I keep listening to your music. I looked deep down why I was brought to that event, and your performance was it!”
“When I first met this person, I felt something awkward. He is a star for me (professional musician, movie producer, dancer), but yet so humble that he talked to me like with someone as equal as him. I was shy to say my ideas regarding history and music and dance because I thought that a great artist like him would not be interested. Yet, I have found one of the most supportive and professional persons in my life! I hope you will all see him as I know him: artist, professional, musician, dancer Josué, La Época.”
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