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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Love: Gery Vakufova, Like: Artur Ganaev, Deniz Nazim
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Philip Wake Another fantastic night of salsa dancing at El Grande bites the dusk! Have only just got home to Gosport at 5:30am so I must retire to my bed for some beautiful sleep but I’ll have more to say tomorrow when I wake up around noon! 🙂
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Philip Wake I enjoyed the improvers’ lesson as a warm up as I love helping inexperienced ladies with rhythm find out how it feels to be danced well. I had some fabulous dances Sasha, Ginny and many others – if only I could remember all their names! I watched the performances with Philip & Leoncio from the side of the stage and I have to say that it was a good viewing point to fully appreciate world class performances. Kathleen‘s Esencia Libre Ladies were amazing, Melitta‘s Pura Ladies were awesome and Juan & Shane were brilliant. I’ve been going to El Grande since it first started – El Grande at Colosseum – and it has always been the best place to be on the 3rd Friday of the month! 🙂 ❤️
Love: Leoncio Caicedo, Like: Sasha Phillips