ENGLAND 19 Jul 2009 Salsa dancers aim to break Guinness World Record

The organizers of the "Summer of Salsa" have called for 2000 people or more to come to the stadium of the Worcester Warriors Rugby club in Worcester on Jul 19 for an attempt to break a Guinness Record for Salsa dancing. There are almost daily attempts on Guinness records. On Mar 17 A video game called "House of the Dead: Overkill" won the honor as the most profane ever, dropping the F-word 189 times. And on St. Patrick's Day in New York, 3,163 participants won the largest pub crawl record.

The group organizing the Salsa attempt broke the Guinness World Record for Belly Dancing in Nov 2008.

Summer of Salsa, in aid of the BBC Children in Need Appeal, will be launched on 9 Apr with a Salsa party in Worcester.

Salsa, which mixes Latin and Afro-Caribbean dance moves is similar to Mambo. Both have a pattern of six steps danced over eight counts of music.

The New York huge pub crawl spanned five miles, 100 bars and three days. Mar/09

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Salsa event: mandi.harris@bbc.co.uk