My daily routine of scouring the interweb consists of: checking facebook (darn it) checking work email checking personal email checking my RSS feeds on Bloglines My uncle Reno has a photography blog which is included in my feeds. What do I find in my feed today but a number of his shots of salsa dancing [...]
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return to salsa.
I think I do this every year: I go for a few months of the winter being sick of salsa, only to be rejuvenated by the onslaught of spring and spurring a hectic schedule of dancing non-stop. 2007 is no different. I was working overtime, had started to miss swing, and was getting tired of [...]
salsa-less wednesday evening.
So I get a new haircut and am all psyched to go dancing tonight…and arrive at an empty studio. Crap. Called Jason to see if there were any other salsa venues open. No luck. Now I’m home and trying to compensate by blaring salsa music out of the laptop. (pout)
change of lindy plans.
My grandmother’s birthday party is on Saturday, so rather than risk her awesome wrath at being a no-show, lindyhopping is rescheduled to … tonight! Lumi and I are going to the Legion on Commercial Drive. I’ll be there from 9pm onwards. Give me a call or an email if you can make it. If I [...]
anybody for lindy hopping?
I have been ignoring one of my two dance passions. It’s been nearly two years since the last time I went swing dancing, and the pain of withdrawal has been slowly but surely building. And since Jason sent me this amazing lindy video, I’m thinking that it’s time to ditch salsa for a couple of [...]
fun afternoon with rueda.
When Kurt and I lived in Winnipeg and took salsa lessons, part of the advanced course was to learn a bit of rueda (wheel) salsa. Think of it as Latin square dancing: several couples form a circle and a caller is selected to shout out the different patterns to execute. It’s fast-paced and very exciting [...]
more sunday afternoon salsa.
Raf and I made it out to the free Sunday salsa at Robson Square this weekend, and this time I was armed with my trusty Canon S2. I’m in the middle of uploading the videos to youtube, so in the meantime, please enjoy the photos on Flickr. Below are some highlights. Raf decides to be [...]
wednesday salsa folks.
Raf, Bruce, and I went to visiting LA instructor Josie Neglia’s salsa workshop, hosted by Urban Beat Dance Co. Some interesting combo patterns later, the usual salsa mixer started up, and this time I had my camera handy. Besides the video clip of my salsa dance with Vinod, we stuck to say-cheese shots with the [...]
Happy salsa birthday party, Daudi.
Dominic and Daudi’s cameras took lots of photos at Daudi’s birthday at the Polish Hall on Friday. It was the first time I had returned since I became addicted to Fridays at the Law Courts. It was also the first time in a long while that I got to dance with some of my favourite [...]
Some more Urban Beat promotion.
I found out that one of my favourite dance partners, Laureano, is the author of an article on the history of salsa that I had posted to my other blog. It’s part of a larger article by Urban Beat Dance Co, written for beginner salseros. You can jump directly to Laureano’s section if you like–very [...]