Frankie Martinez: Comparison Video From His 10 Year Old Performance Routine

Frankie Martinez revisits one of his famous routines @ the Fusion Salsa Festival. It is hard to believe the routine was performed 10 years ago! Check out a comparison video from the 2004 LA Congress.
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[@danieldelacruz7305]

You can see the confidence he has built compared to his older self. I see the confidence in his newer version.

[@luisaallman4711]

Nice you are nominated one of the best in the world. God!!! You are an inspiration. I am here in the Dominican Republic. Love ya!!! Watching you always😇

[@ajToTheMoon]

Frankie is my favorite salsa dancer, and he is one of the best (if not the best). You can see that his body movements and styling is getting even better over the years, the latin-funk style comes out with a lot of musicality in his new routines. But I prefer the original routine. The movements were "larger", less holding back, better for a performance. In the old videos he could actually make the audience roar when he wished while dancing.

[@richsalsa]

This is awesome. I've gone back to compare various versions of this routine but never viewed them side by side. The one consistent factor is that he is always in the moment. He knows the routine but it never looks exactly the same. Artistically, he dances much different now. The biggest difference is he is much faster, has better control, and is more in his Latin Funk style. Because he is so fast, he has more time to slow down and milk some of the movements making everything more dynamic and he is able to show more musicality. When he actually tries to move his body, everything is much bigger and more powerful. When he doesn't, it gets too relaxed in my opinion. I wish he had a bit more of his older Latin style and a little less of his Funky style (just a tad less) so that it looks closer to traditional salsa but with all his current polish and knowledge of dance. He's probably still my favorite though.

[@TheMr007247]

+Richard Ortiz I agree with you until you got to the point about latin style and funky style. I think most dancers don't realize that traditional salsa and funk is basically the same thing. They are one and the same, and Frankie has (for most of his dancing career) came to the realization of that. In the end, there is really no such thing as styles. All styles tend to do is cause separation.

[@marcoberretta6187]

In generale i ballerini di new york non mi fanno impazzire ma lui e unico ho avuto il piacere di conoscerlo quando aveva 18 anni e non era ancora famoso ma era gia un mostro un artista forse intrappolato dalla sua stessa arte ma avanti anni luce

[@trungnguyenthe5038]

They say he is the best of the bests. To me they are still wrong, just don't compare orther dancers to him, my only salsa idol :)