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
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Philip Wake Another fantastic salsa party at El Grande tonight – the air conditioning in the main room of Scala was working well all night keeping me cool while I had hot dances with so many gorgeous ladies. One lady I danced with, who exhibited much energy and confidence which I managed to capture and lead back to her, told me I was awesome at the end of the dance and I had no hesitation in agreeing that she was too! I enjoyed Kat and Eddie – Esencia Libre‘s improvers lesson which I always do for fun and dancing with Kat later. All the performances were world class, naturally, so I will continue to report to the salsa world that this 3rd Friday night of every month is always the best and I’ll always be there while I live – to 120 hopefully! 🙂 ❤️
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Philip Wake I met the same energetic lady at 50/50 the following night – she said her name was Touche but I’m not sure how that is spelt. We had some more ‘awesome’ dances! She said that nobody else could control her like I could! 🙂 ❤️
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Philip Wake I like that video Thalia because I appear dancing with Gery in the last 2 seconds! Thanks for the dance tonight! 🙂 ❤️
Love: Thalia Padilla, Gery Vakufova
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Thalia Padilla LD Philip Wake thanks to you
Love: Philip Wake
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Gery Vakufova Philip Wake thank you, my salsa man! Was a pleasure for me 💃❤🕺
Love: Philip Wake