Kelly Lannan and Eric Caty are the directors of Salsa Rica Dance Company in Calgary, Canada. With David Joseph, they are the producers of the 4th Calgary International Salsa Congress, February 4-6, 2011. They have represented Canada 3 times at the ESPN World Salsa Championships where they have placed as high as 6th. Eric and Kelly were feature choreographers on So You Think You Can Dance CANADA and danced on the Calgary tour stop of Dancing with the Stars.

Kelly has represented Canada 4 times at the ESPN World Salsa Championships where in 2009 she placed 6th in the World. Kelly has been a finalist at many other professional salsa championship events including twice at the prestigious Mayan World Salsa Championships. Kelly is a choreographer on SO YOU THINK YOU CAN DANCE CANADA, and was a featured dancer on the DANCING WITH THE STARS tour stop in Calgary.

Kelly has been invited to perform and teach all over North America, including the World Salsa Congress in Los Angeles, which is the largest salsa event in the world (hosted by Salsa legend Albert Torres). Kelly is the co-director of Salsa Rica Dance Company: Calgary's only touring professional salsa company, and a producer of the Calgary International Salsa Congress. Kelly has been a feature dancer and choreographer on television, film, for events with crowds of over 50,000, television events broadcast to over 200 million homes on international networks such as Bravo! Television, ESPN, and CTV. Kelly is also very proud to be one of the owners of Alberta Dancesport - Calgary's best place to dance!

Eric has represented Canada 4 times at the World Salsa Championships where he is currently ranked 6th in the World, having placed 6th at the 2009 World Championships. Eric is a featured choreographer on So You Think You Can Dance CANADA, and was a featured dancer on the DANCING WITH THE STARS tour stop in Calgary. Eric is a former Open North American Ten-Dance Champion, and has traveled the world competing at some of the world’s 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 Alberta's top professional and amateur couples including some national and World Champions. Eric is the co-director of Salsa Rica Dance Company, the co-producer of the Calgary International Salsa Congress, and this year has become a certified International Standard (Ballroom) and Latin adjudicator.

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 world's 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, Chicago, Philadelphia, Mexico and Las Vegas.