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Good point! In Puerto Rico we have a delicious dish called 'guineitos en escabeche'. It's essentially a salad made with boiled, pickled green bananas, onions, garlic, black pepper, and olive oil! So the moral of the story is that one can combine seemingly disparate things with a sensible...

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¡Lo que se hereda, no se hurta!

White pants are the new red pants, and red shoes are the new white shoes! One can also mix it up by wearing red shoes, red pants, and a white shirt/top. The salseros from Milan might think they're fashion forward, but Switzerland, the Red Cross, and Santa Claus were doing the red and white...

Hi Cecil, this is Antonio. Do some explore other dances? When I lived there, there were several advanced dancers that did WCS. My impression is that kizomba has made it to MN. Has it affected attendance to pure Salsa/Latin events?

While I largely agree with your sentiment, as I have expressed in previous posts, I don't think things are as bad as you think they are. My impression is that the more experienced dancers rarely attend the BDS social, Monday CB practica, or the SDS Wednesday social. Have you considered going...

Lol. A qualified 'good'.

I agree. Several of the more experienced dancers have branched out into tango, bachata, and kizomba, thus reducing the time they spend dancing salsa. Others burn out from intense dancing (e.g., in a team) and take a break from dancing altogether or just make it to 'special events'. Another...

I'm trying to remember what I do. My apologies if it's off... I think I prep her on the 1 (towards me), on the 2 (away from me), she turns on 3 and 4, and exits on 5. I've found that it's easier to lead the double inside turns with a bottom-assisted lead with the right hand (starting the...

Orquesta Narváez is back, and both their debut and recent albums are available on iTunes! Check out 65 de infantería, a nice aguinaldo-son fusion in tribute to the 65th Infantry, the Army unit of Puerto Ricans deployed during the Korean War.

It will come with practice. Focus on expressing feeling in your dancing and polishing your technique. By improving your technique, you'll be better equipped to express what the music is making you feel. Since movements will become second nature, you'll be able to improvise, be playful, or be...

I vote for Jae's.

I'm in! However, a 30-minute dinner will feel a bit rushed... :troll:

You can add me to your list!

I think kbitten and MacMoto are alluding to a common convention in linear salsa rather than arguing to keep things simple or to avoid excessive styling, albeit those are also good suggestions. Doing something other than the basic at the wrong time will interfere with leading. Here is a...

¡Tremenda combinación!

Glad you enjoyed them! I like to mix it up a bit, or else I get bored.

This was a terrific talk by a world-renown mambomatician. I wonder if data from real dancing fit his mathematical model, as On2 can, in some cases, might seem "snappier" than the smooth version he's describing. I guess we'll have to wait until an experimental mambophysicist tackles the...

I read this book a couple of years ago. If I recall correctly, I learned about it while reading Malcolm Gladwell's Outliers. Talent Is Overrated is definitely a good read!