{"id":2838,"date":"2017-01-01T03:20:14","date_gmt":"2017-01-01T03:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2017-12-09T04:20:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-09T04:20:32","slug":"don-puerto-ricotexas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?p=2838","title":{"rendered":"The Don &#8211; Puerto Rico\/Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=2840\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2840\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-2840\" src=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"620\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-1.jpg 533w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-1-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 413px) 100vw, 413px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damian Guzman (The Don) is best known for his social dancing admiration and focus thru the world. During his childhood in Puerto Rico, he developed he developed a special passion for salsa and bachata Caribbean-style. This passion led him to take his skills beyond the Caribbean style feeling to a more technical level since 2006. In 2011, he developed a special passion for Bachata Sensual which led him to pursue further understanding of this emerging style of bachata developed in Europe leading him to further training and dancing in Spain, France, Italy, and Germany. He&#8217;s also the founder of The MOB Dancers Group which comprises over 6,000 dancers in the US focused on Salsa &amp; Bachata Social Dancing. As a dancer and DJ he has taught and shared his love for Bachata all around the world including multiple dance Congresses in the US and England, Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and The Aventura Dance Cruise, The Largest Latin Dance Cruise in The World.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=2842\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2842\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2842\" src=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"543\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-3.jpg 800w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-3-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-3-768x541.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 543px) 100vw, 543px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=2841\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-2841\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-2841\" src=\"http:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-2-682x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"523\" height=\"785\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-2.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/The-Don-His-Page-2-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 523px) 100vw, 523px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Guzman (The Don) is best known for his social dancing admiration and focus thru the world. 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As a dancer and DJ he has taught and shared his love for Bachata all around the world including multiple dance Congresses in the US and England, Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Vietnam, and The Aventura Dance Cruise, The Largest Latin Dance Cruise in The World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2018-djs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Don - Puerto Rico\/Texas - Texas Salsa Congress<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?p=2838\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Don - Puerto Rico\/Texas - Texas Salsa Congress\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Damian Guzman (The Don) is best known for his social dancing admiration and focus thru the world. 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