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, cubana, 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 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 or am knackered!
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
- 04:55 kizomba, cuban & bachata rooms close
- 05:00 salsa room closes and time to go home
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Philip Wake I enjoyed the improvers class at El Grande tonight with Angel & Melitta and picked up a couple of moves I might incorporate in my repertoire. I don’t do the advanced class because I prefer to use the moves with which I have become so familiar that I can concentrate on the most important part of salsa dancing which is leading with dramatic interpretation of the music while dancing energetically with a smooth style in such a way as to bring out the best in my follower. If you make her look good – you look good!
I had so many wonderful dances tonight with so many lovely salseras I lost count but I could hardly forget you turning up Gery Vakufova – my Bulgarian princess – we virtually sizzled on the dance floor after not dancing together for what seems like ages. Hopefully you’ll make it to Scalalatina on Sunday so we can burn the floor together again!
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