I've not danced there, but I hear it is yeah.
I dislike when a DJ plays too much of any genre. Some DJs play too much of fast dura and some play too much of mid tempo (found that especially in Europe). It is like food either having too much sugar or too much salt.
I generally hate old tinny virtuosic songs with lots of breaks, super fast mambo or Colombian. So I am happy with lots of timba and mid tempo or spritely.
50 years? Are you sure about that? Vinyl sales were at their peak 50 tears ago. Maybe they said it 150 years ago when phonograms first appeared as they used horns to record music but that changed once the electrical microphones where invented and audio quality improved dramatically.
Music will always exist, but when recorded music appeared the amount of live music shrinked and when AI takes over then the amount of human music will shrink. Maybe music will even get "better" (hard to define), but it will change definitely. Human musicians need to get payed and can only deliver a new album every two years, but AI has no restrictions.
I went to a congress for 1 night (well the old easter festival at the sheraton). The salsa is now in the smallest room. Spent most in the empty cuban room.
There are no spaces in North America to match grandeur and beauty of Europe. For one, NA as a current society hasn’t been around for very long and lacks history. Most of the things standing have been built 1800s onwards but primarily post 1900s. Except for a few that aren’t accessible to hold festivals, the rest are purely functional. For example the city hall of San Francisco has gorgeous rotunda, but you can’t hold a festival there. There are some good churches but again you can’t hold festivals in them. A couple of modern palace like building built by rich families are too expensive for dance festivals to rent.
I like the sheraton center way better than the royal rock for atmosphere. But I'm just not gonna bother anymore. I am really starting to not care.
You can in europe, widely inhabited by infidels nowadays, so churches are closed and transformed into climbing halls or dancefloors - like that Prague marathon in december. I guess this is unthinkable in the US.
My favourite city for outstanding locations is again Prague who has lots of late 19th century grandeur architecture (it was part of the austrian imperial back then), I've been to two impressing dancefloors and seen others in video like in the video below: it's worth watching just for the background. They seem to have such locations endlessly, I wouldn't be surprised to find more of them in upcoming videos.
Having no good A/C indeed is a problem in northern europe, social dance widely comes to a halt in summer due to that. There is mostly some A/C but too weak to fight against heat waves like the current one. I don't go out anymore due to that. There is outdoor dancing, but this attracts mostly the "fun" crowd aka bad dancers - for some reason the good dancers don't show up, seems they all prefer making barbecue instead. The local dance schools I know all have unbearable sauna heat as instructors often halt the A/C as it is so loud that it is hard for them to be understood. Good A/C costs money which was rarely invested as the heat days were rare - until now, but climate change is hard to deny. I guess in other continents the A/C is mostly stronger and better?
When you grow up with strong A/C you accomodate to it I guess. But for us northern europeans a constant change between hot and cold is a challenge and indeed many report they got a cold when repeatedly entering sweated a very cooled down building. I always carry a jacket to shelter against getting a cold when strong A/C can be expected somewhere (like train rides).
I'm pro AC when temperature gets above 30°C, but in general if I have a choice, I will open the window and switch it off. In some office buildings it's impossible.