Slug & Lettuce Fareham have started up Cuban salsa dancing classes and social dancing in their salubrious event room every Thursday from 8pm to 11pm.
Venue: Slug & Lettuce Fareham at 64 West Street, Fareham, PO16 0JN
Parking: The nearby Market Quay Car Park is free after 6pm.
Times:
- 8pm Cubana lessons for beginners and improvers
- 9pm Social dancing
- 11pm Close
Tickets: £6 for lessons and social dancing, £3 for social dancing only
Hosts: Bluetouchlive, Slug & Lettuce Fareham & Mug Shot Coffee Shop
DJ: DJ Trevor Pinto
Afterwards many people move on the Drift Bar in Southsea to dance on upstairs until the wee hours of the morning! Arriving around 11pm works well because the bachata lessons upstairs finish around 10pm and the music begin to include salsa tracks as well a bachata about that time.
Venue: Drift Bar at 78 Palmerston Road, Southsea, PO5 3PT
Parking: There’s plenty of parking round the back in the Ashby Place car park.
Tickets: £2 after 10pm
Host: DALE Afro Latin Entertainment
DJ Upstairs: Hazel Ashleen Squibb
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Like: Hazel Ashleen Squibb, Jasmina Andonova, Bluetouchlive
Philip Wake There weren’t many at Slug & Lettuce Fareham but when the lesson finished I danced with as many of the ladies as I could and finished off with a superb dance with the teacher Jessica. When I left I had a chat with Michelle outside who had followed me quite well for a total beginner. Her boyfriend was having problems moving rather stiffly so I showed him the ‘waiting for a bus’ way of weight transfer but he couldn’t get it at all – his body leaning in all directions as he tried to transfer his weight from one leg to the other. Michelle turned out to be a boxer and therefore knew about weight transfer – that’s why she had followed me so well. She tried to show him too but nothing worked. I told him to keep practising with Michelle until he got it.
I went on to Drift Bar Southsea which was quite well attended. However, the floor seemed much stickier than usual which made dancing difficult – hard on the knees. I realised it was because the floor at the Slug & Lettuce was really sticky and had made my shoes sticky too. I had quite few dances which were fun but I enjoyed dancing with Michelle the most because she said her boyfriend had tried to show her how to dance but she just couldn’t do it. Her boyfriend persuaded her to dance with me when I offered to show her and I managed to get her to dance a bachata quite well after a few bars. Later I managed to get her to follow me dancing a salsa too. She said with a big smile on her face that she felt like she was really dancing and loved it. She gave me some nice hugs and kisses at the end of the dance which made my night complete so I decided it was time to leave and do my shopping at Asda Fareham on the way home! And so to bed . . .
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