2018-06-15: El Grande every 3rd Friday at Scala in Kings Cross!

I always look forward to being part of the biggest and best monthly salsa dancing venue in the UK which is El Grande at Scala from 21:30 to 05:00 – 4 rooms for  salsa, cuban, bachata & kizomba – often attended by more than 1200 dancers! Entry is £12 whether you do the lessons or not. The venue is Scala just a few hundred yards down the road from King’s Cross St. Pancras Tube Station at 275 Pentonville Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9NL. There’s always somewhere to park for free in the surrounding roads – you just have to drive round until you find somewhere.

I usually arrive around 9:30pm and do the improvers lesson with Michael Mandrel and his lovely wife just for fun and then dance the night away until around 3am when I am usually ready to leave because my salsa soul has been fulfilled or sometimes because I have overheated, have run out of shirts and am knackered! Tonight the lesson was by Fadi K & his partner Christina Varga which provided me with a few moves I was actually able to use later during the social dancing. My first social dance was with Christina which was an excellent way to begin my night of salsa. Fadi gave some good advice during the lesson:

• All moves and turns are the same no matter where you’re arms are
• Don’t progress to advanced lessons until you can make invent your own sequences and
• See a sequence being taught once and be able to do it immediately

Please see the facebook event on the El Grande London page for details for this particular night but the usual timetable is:

09:00 Doors open

09:30 Lesson at various levels for each dance genre in the 4 rooms

10:30 Social dancing

01:00 (approx) Performances

01:15 (approx) Social dancing continues

04:00 kizomba, cuban & bachata rooms close

05:00 salsa room closes and time to go home

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