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 While we are waiting for the event to begin I had a stimulating dance with Leyla in her Amazonian blue outfit which warmed me up very well indeed. When the improvers lesson started with the eminent Miguel there were too many men so I decided to watch and recruit some ladies. By the end of the lesson the numbers were about even and I used parts of the routine later during the social dancing. I had a lot of good dances but a few of them were brilliant including an imaginative one with Magda, a smooth one with Silviya and a flirtatious one with Charlotte. I loved the performances which were all very professional and worthy of the El Grande stage. I kept on dancing until 3am at which time I had a lively dance with a scintillating young lady which was deserving of being my last for the purposes of a parting memory of a fabulous evening. ❤️
However, at 3:30 having driven only a few miles from Scala one of my front tyres suddenly burst with a loud bang. Later I discovered a 2 inch tear in the sidewall which indicated that some object had pierced the inner layers and caused the tyre to explode. See my separate post called HOW LONG IS A RESCUE for more details of why I didn’t get back to Gosport until 11am! 🙁
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Leyla Sharifullina Philip Wake thank you for your kind words! It was a great warmup for a great night 😊💃🏻🤩 sorry to hear about your tyre 😢
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Ralu Frusina shared a post. 15 November at 11:28 ·
Thank You my hero daddy Philip Wake 🤗
You make me more important than I actually am 🤠!
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- Ralu Frusina I am on duty 12h today
- I hope I’ll have energy to be there at SCALA 🤓🤗🍻 1
- Philip Wake I missed having a vibration with you on Friday night but hoping we will meet again soon! 💘
- Ralu Frusina Philip Wake definitely
Had a rough day at work on Friday 1
- Philip Wake Me too! XxX
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- Chris Diamond You are both important and look amazing in this picture. Hope to see you both tonight. 🤗 2
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- Karen Powles Ralu….would love to come with you some time! Hope you are well xx
- Ralu Frusina Karen Powles Karen, waaw.. I would love to have you dancing.
Maybe soon I’ll visit Essex ❤❤❤❤ 1
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- Philip Wake My feedback after having plenty of sleep!
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Philip Wake is feeling exhausted. 16 November at 14:07 ·
HOW LONG IS A RESCUE!
To cut a long story short, one of my front tyres burst at 03:30 while I was still in London so I contacted my rescue service and eventually arrived at my designated destination – Auto Tyre Centre Gosport – at 11:00 which means it took them nearly 8 hours to transport my car 80 miles. I ordered the replacement tyre by phone at 0900 when they opened so they would be ready to replace the burst tyre when I arrive at 11:00. Actually I ordered two tyres because the other one was losing 10lbs of air pressure every week and it’s always a good idea to have matching front tyres! Having not slept for 27 hours I can hardly remember what happened last night at ” EL GRANDE ” Friday 15 November, 9pm – 5am,4 rooms,30+ Artists so when I have caught up with my sleep I’ll see what I can do about the usual feedback for my blog! Whether or not I will go out salsa dancing tonight at 5050 Salsa & Bachata at Union Regents Place is in doubt because when I fall asleep (as soon as my girlfriend has left) I may not wake up until tomorrow!
” EL GRANDE ” Friday 15 November, 9pm – 5am,4 rooms,30+ Artists