Eric Caty
DAVID JOSEPH | KELLY CATY | ERIC CATY
Eric Caty, Kelly Caty and David Joseph, Professional Instructors at Alberta Dancesport.
Eric, Kelly, and David perform and teach all over North America, but call Alberta Dancesport home. Come and be part of their FUN and INFORMATIVE classes!
Eric is a former Open North American Ten-Dance Champion, and has traveled the world competing at some of the worlds most prestigious dance events including the Ohio Star Ball, which has been broadcast on television for the past 20 years, and at the Blackpool Dance Festival, which is the largest dance competition in the world. This experience has allowed Eric to coach many of Albertas’s top professional and amateur couples including some national and World Champions. Eric is the co-director of Salsa Rica Dance Company who in 2002 represented Canada with 22 Alberta-based professional dancers and won the WSF World Salsa Team Championships in Miami.
Eric has competed and performed at events worldwide for over 20 years and has been a feature dancer and choreographer for television, and events of over 50, 000 people.
Eric began his dance training at the age of six in Montreal, and received training in the Latin and Ballroom dances from some of the worlds’ top instructors and coaches. He moved to Calgary in 2000 to pursue a very successful professional ballroom career, and here he was introduced to Salsa in the clubs. Eric quickly fell in love with salsa because of its free and fun social style. Eric has become one of salsas most recognized faces performing in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Vancouver, Montreal, Mexico and Las Vegas.
Eric and Kelly were very proud to be invited to teach and perform at the World Salsa Congress in Acapulco, Mexico, in December of this year, and were extremely proud to win the Canadian qualifying competition and represent Canada at the World Salsa Championships by Albert Torres for ESPN in the Cabaret division where they placed 6th in the world. This event will be the most widely broadcast dance event in history going out to 200 Million homes in North Central and South America in April 2006! Eric and Kelly are also very proud to be the new owners with Vincent Fung of Alberta Dancesport.