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Dear SF friends in London, I'll be in London Monday and Tuesday for work and am planning to check out Bar Salsa on Monday. Is that the best place for On2 dancing on a Monday night? Hope to meet you soon. Cheers, Antonio

Try setting up the copa with a mirrored open break, rather than a squared open break. A mirrored open break will allow you to align the follower parallel to your body early in the move, thereby reducing the chances that she'll over rotate. This is in contrast to initiating the copa with a...

It is grammatically incorrect, indeed! "Conguero sabroso" might have been more appropriate.

We Puerto Ricans have been doing that for years!

While I usually dislike Salsa in English, I do like Mambo of the Times and of course, Joe Cuba's boogaloos.

Thanks, let's see how it goes... I'll keep you updated.

Thanks for the kind words, MAMBO_CEC. I also appreciate our conversations about Salsa, dance, and SF shenanigans! I will miss you, lidiap, Salsa Student, and the rest of the crew. Thanks for making me feel welcome in Seattle! We'll certainly keep in touch!

Bobby Cruz says, "Oye, quien les toca no es Stravinsky." (Listen, who's playing is not Stravinsky). I think he's complimenting Richie by alluding to Igor Stravinsky.

That's unfortunate. Good dance shoes should be quite durable. I bought a pair of Diamant's suede-bottom dance sneakers 7-months ago, and have found them to be worth every penny. They weren't cheap, but fit well, are comfortable, and have remained in good condition in spite of heavy use. The...

Try to emulate Tuntuneco (frilly outfit not required)! As Eddie explains, imagine you're a puppet. Strive to use fluid weight transfers and subtle joint articulations to achieve the desired movement. When people try to force it, they end up looking mechanical. Eddie has several videos where...

Bomba and plena are by far the most popular Puerto Rican rhythms that appear in Salsa music. To a lesser extent, seis & aguinaldo music from the countryside and the danza, a high-society genre, are also represented. Below are some examples. "Si la ves por ahí" El Gran Combo 0:09 - 0:28; 0:46...

Well, people that are accenting everything aren't dancing musically in my opinion. An integral aspect of music interpretation is to know which elements to emphasize and which to leave out; i.e. exercising restraint. To illustrate with a cooking analogy, the master chef knows when to stop...

Nice post!

A bit off-topic, but I doubt that Plena and Bomba could be considered main roots of the music that we colloquially now call Salsa. While one can sometimes hear Plena and Bomba passages in Puerto Rican and NY Salsa, I hesitate to consider them roots. Their musical structure and instrumentation...

Ah, yes. I call it Photo-gate...

lol! For sure, this is a fine example of Gilbertito as a solo artist singing a dura track. I am torn. I prefer Tito's vocals but the horns in Gilberto's version.

Two versions of 'Abarriba cumbiaremos'.

Es cierto. El foro tiene muchos miembros europeos, y particularmente, británicos. ¡En unos cuantos meses contribuiré a esa demográfica!