Thursday, August 09, 2007

Coming up

Well, I wasn't dancing very well on Monday night - I'm not fitting in enough practice. Best dance of the night was Cristina who it's impossible to have a bad dance with. The previous time I'd seen her was at WOMAD, having just seen a terrific set from the wonderful Lila Downs. Great Mexican cantina music for crying into your cerveza, and an extraordinarily lively and fun performance - when you see pictures of Lila she always looks moody and intense, but she hardly stopped smiling and never stopped moving. After watching her set I found myself speaking Spanish to Cristina when I came across her wading through the mud, which I never usually do because her English is so much better than my Spanish.

There's loads of exciting stuff coming up in the Autumn. Tammi kicks off with a night featuring Angus Peters, one of my favourite salsa teachers, on 15 September, at the Three Saints in Llantrisant. The following week it's Irene's turn at the Electricity Club in Pontcanna, with Rohan Brown (who I haven't seen for years). This looks like a really entertaining night, including both improvers rueda and intermediate salsa trio (one man, two women - or vice versa as I once saw Anna the scientist dancing it). The real biggie is Tammi's boot camp on 8-10 February with Edie the Salsa Freak, who's a world-famous teacher, and with evening party nights - Robert Charlemagne on the Saturday and Moe Flex on the Sunday.

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