These are a few of our favourite things

I love this track because….. Music sets all of us off in different ways, we love things for different reasons, and sometimes we cant quite work out why or how….but if a few different notes and instruments makes us feel something, there must be something in...

Shine blindness

LOST IN TRANSLATION I have been dancing salsa for four years now, and there is always something new to learn, a move to improve on, some styling to add. But there is one element of the dance that has defeated me; my as yet unconquered frontier. My Salsa Everest. It is...

Salsa therapy

IT’S January, it’s grey, it’s cold, it’s S.A.D., and we take up a little more space than we did in November; what to do? The papers are full of de-tox diets to get you over Christmas and lift your spirits, TV is awash with pundits talking about mood-enhancing...

Out of the comfort zone

As someone once said, a Salsa Congress is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you gonna get…well you do, but at one and the same time, you don’t. If you see what I mean. Let me explain: You get used to going to your regular classes, seeing your friends,...

I love clothes!

Anthropologically speaking Thriving only in that small salsa bubble found in dimly lit salsa clubs, the salsa diva (lat: dancus et dancus…et dancus) looks and feels out of place in the outside world. Her bright plumage and sparkly tops displayed to coax even the most...

In the beginning there was music

Little did I know when I hesitantly walked through those Salsa doors for the first time that I was at the beginning of what has become a serious addiction…I honestly did think before I embarked on my first mambo that I could just dabble in this salsa stuff...