{"id":3318,"date":"2018-09-01T14:33:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-01T14:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2019-01-29T14:34:02","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T14:34:02","slug":"damian-don-puerto-rico-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?p=3318","title":{"rendered":"Damian &#8220;The Don&#8221; &#8211; Puerto Rico\/Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=3320\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3320\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3320\" src=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-1-682x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"539\" height=\"809\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-1.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-1-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Damian Guzman (The Don) is best known for his social dancing admiration and focus through the world. During his childhood in Puerto Rico, 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, becoming one of the first Bachata Sensual dancers in the United States.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=3321\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3321\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3321\" src=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-2-682x1024.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-2.jpeg 682w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-2-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Eventually, his love and passion for this dance also led him to train to become one of the first certified bachata sensual instructors in the United States. The Don is also the founder of The MOB Dancers Group which is comprised of over 6,000 dancers in the US, focusing 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 over 80 dance Congresses through the United States, England, Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Australia, and Aventura Dance Cruise, the Largest Latin Dance Cruise in The World.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=3322\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3322\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-3-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"458\" height=\"305\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-3.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-3-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-3-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 458px) 100vw, 458px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/?attachment_id=3323\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-3323\" src=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-4-1024x682.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"456\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-4.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-4-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/txsalsacongress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Damian-\u201cThe-Don\u201d-His-Page-4-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 456px) 100vw, 456px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damian Guzman (The Don) is best known for his social dancing admiration and focus through the world. During his childhood in Puerto Rico, 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, becoming one of the first Bachata Sensual dancers in the United States. Eventually, his love and passion for this dance also led him to train to become one of the first certified bachata sensual instructors in the United States. The Don is also the founder of The MOB Dancers Group which is comprised of over 6,000 dancers in the US, focusing 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 over 80 dance Congresses through the United States, England, Japan, China, Thailand, Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, Russia, Vietnam, Australia, and Aventura Dance Cruise, the Largest Latin Dance Cruise in The World.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3319,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2019-djs"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Damian &quot;The Don&quot; - 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=3318\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Damian &quot;The Don&quot; - 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 through the world. 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