This chapter analyzes the tenth Berlin Salsa Congress (October 2010) to demonstrate the transnational circuits of Latin American music and dance. This annual gathering of salsa aficionados from across the world, the forms of salsa it propagates, its self-proclaimed internationalism, and the interpersonal encounters it enables between individuals with diverse transnational histories are examined alongside an understanding of the history of salsa as itself born out of the encounter between European and African diasporic groups in the Americas under conditions of slavery and imperialism. The Berlin Salsa Congress allows us to interpret the relationship between this older history and the contemporary transnationalization of salsa in urban spaces worldwide to shed light on a ubiquitous but little-understood phenomenon of our transnational world: collective, kinesthetic, and corporeal pleasure as a vector for cultural transactions and transformations that were born out of originally traumatic diasporic processes.
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