World Salsa Solos 2025

The Latin Fire team travelled to the Gold Coast for the 2025 World Salsa Solos. The Kiwi schools did amazingly well throughout the competition and our teams and soloists achieved some amazing results!

Placings for the Latin Fire Competitors were:

1st Place Professional Salsa Solo - Natasha Frost

1st Place Professional Bachata Solo - Natasha Frost

1st Place Amateur Salsa Solo - Jorja Dann

1st Place Amateur Bachata Solo - Jorja Dann

1st Place Amateur Cha Cha Solo - Jorja Dann

1st Place Youth Salsa Solo - Salisha Wright

1st Place Youth Latin Solo - Zara Harrington

1st Place Amateur Cha Cha Duet - Lauren Proud & Jorja Dann

1st Place Youth Duets - Zara Harrington & Salisha Wright

1st Place Youth/Adult Duet - Salisha Wright & Joey Tan

1st Place Youth Salsa Shine Team - Latin Fire Youth Salsa Team

2nd Place Youth Salsa Solo - Zara Harrington

2nd Place Youth Latin Solo - Phoebe Harris

2nd Place Amateur Salsa Duet - Amelia Woods & Jorja Dann

2nd Place Youth Duets - Lucy Wall & Phoebe Harris

2nd Place Amateur Bachata Shine Team - Latin Fire Escenia Team

2nd Place Open Salsa Shine Team - Latin Fire Descarada Salsa Team

3rd Place Youth Salsa Solo - Judd Cattermole

3rd Place Youth Latin Solo - Lucy Wall

3rd Place Youth/Adult Duet - Zara Harrington & Gabby Zhen

X-Factor Team Award - Latin Fire Descarada Salsa Team

Additionally, Lauren, Amelia, Joey and Gabby all competed in the hotly contested amateur solo divisions and while they didn't place this time we couldn't be more proud of them for putting themselves forward to compete!!

And just to top it all off, our director Donna Frost was presented with an Award of Excellence in recognition of her contribution to the Latin dance scene in Australia and New Zealand. This is an amazing accolade for the work Donna has done over the past 30+ years in the industry as was (in our humble opinion) so well deserved!!

Congratulations to all those who competed and placed, it was an honour to share the stage with you all. Big thank you to Carlos, Elli and the WSS team for the well run competition, we will be back again next year!!