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during? body isolations or solo shines if music's good, chatting if music's bad. asking new people can help...if theyre all awful, hopefully you showed them a nice time at least. or cut losses and go home. or combo of all above. after? depends on why i had a bad time...try to address...

thrilled to have missed 1,000 texts telling you that Sean Penn was in Tahrir today, probably... ;) he looked like he was auditioning for 'Braveheart', lol...

it's raining you said? really heavy, cold, driving rain? oh, im so sorry... ;) :raisebrow:

that's it! :mad: i hate you all. ;) and i hope it rains. ;) ;)

wore a calf-length swishy chiffony/meshy skirt and pale pink chiffon shirt...then realised i was channelling 'Baby' in 'Dirty Dancing', lol. skirt kept spinning up and adding wind resistance, thus excusing slow spins... ;) had a nice on2 dance with one of my regulars...who took me over to the...

seconded! it was a really tough time. the local black-market pizza places that nowadays do really yummy fried pizza for around 10CUP ($0.50) (hey, dont knock it til youve tried it, lol), had no cheese...so they would melt a plastic bag on top of the pizza instead! :eek: people were...

different strokes... :cool: though i think you might be overestimating some of your beginners. most beginners go to one class a week, assuming they miss one class in 3 months (almost inevitable in a busy city), i'm giving them 4 songs 11 times each over a 3-month period. even with simple...

:( hope you all have fun! :cool: see you at the Istanbul Congress, I hope... :)

seriously! you have to eat it - it's nomilicious! :cool: Egyptian food is some of the best in the world, imho. i keep hearing that Lebanese is better, but so far havent found it to be true (only exception is the mohallibeya in Marouch on Edgeware Rd, which is really fine and delicately...

i agree with the rest, but i think the above depends on your definition...? i'd play 4 songs in an hour-long lesson, all different from each other, but usually the same 4 carefully-chosen tracks for a 3-month period, so that the beginner's ear could start to hear more depth in all of them. i'd...

lol...i was firmly on the side of the german neighbours in that story (needing to get up for work at 7am, with loud parties all night for a month!). i can understand the culture shock to the cuban though - if your neighbour's having a party, you join in. then if you feel like calling in sick to...

all seconded. :cool: now youve actually memorised the choreography, it's too late for me to share my trick of dividing it into sections as suggested to me by the music or moves, rather than by bars. like episodes of 'friends', lol ('this is the one where...') so in my head, it might go...

thank you! :) i dont mean to sound cynical, but.... ....to give one example of 'good intentions' i had a lovely (to me) cuban salsa teacher in havana who had a series of tourist girlfriends even though he was actually gay, and went on to marry a german lady. as of a few years ago, he would...

i'd agree and go waaaaaay beyond that. without the music, do not dance. there is no point. the only reason for any dance whatsoever to even exist is to express the music it comes from. i like to think im no kind of salsa snob at all - happy to dance with beginners, drunks, on any beat, in any...

i was in a very modern fast-food place in cairo, high up with a great view of a very modern, busy street, with lots of shiny offices, international cafes and traffic. was watching the world go by, when amongst the taxis, mercedes, fiats etc... ...trots a horse and cart. more correctly, a...

great! :D and that reminds me... snowflake, if you know a Cuban - or can find one through a friend sit them down and watch them listen to salsa music (doesnt always work, but will 99+ times out of 100 if theyre 40 years' old or more and grew up in Cuba, since music is non-stop and...

please dont feel bad! i think it's an absolutely normal evolution for a salsa dancer to go from first struggling to find the beat at all, to being able to tell the difference between salsa/merengue/cha cha, to being able to tell the difference between individual salsa songs, to starting to...

doh! feel your pain, and raise you one... ...i used to go to a regular weekly night where the DJ was an iphone. which had one playlist exactly the length of the night. same songs, same order every single week for 6 months. :eek::car: one of the songs - trauma has blanked out the name, lol...

hmm, maybe. do yours involve oil at all...? ;) :twisted: :raisebrow:

in general, i think that would be good advice, thank you. :cool: in this particular case, back when i lived here and before he actually descended into criminal activity, i tried every variation of being nice, trying to chat, trying to smile, asking to dance, holding meetings, giving him free...