Lindy Beige has made a very long rant: “Fighting is like dancing (so men don’t like to dance)”. 45 minutes! I find it not only entertaining but very, very interesting and inspiring. I recommend it to the whole dance community. Lindy Beige is a British YouTuber with close to a million followers. Lindy mixes the most hilarious fun and seriousness
Read moreIf salsa dancing is going to be more than a secret pleasure for the few outside the Latino world, it really must be better grounded also in the local culture. If we love salsa dancing so much that we want it to become mainstream culture, it must be rooted in ourselves. If we want salsa dancing to become for all
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“Islands Brygge” (Island’s Quay) in the center of Copenhagen harbor is a very popular place for open air free dance events like Salsa, Bachata, Kizomba and Tango, almost every day in the summer time, and you have many indoor dance events the rest of the year. This local Cultural Center dance venue with a lot of outdoor and indoor facilities,
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“Dansepladsen” (litteraly “the place to dance”) is located in a corner of the biggest park of Copenhagen, “Fælledparken”. If the sun is shining, “Dansepladsen”, simply called “Fælledparken” among the local dancers, is the most popular dance venue in Copenhagen. It is free and it is World Class. 1. Summer Dance in Fælledparken During the summer, from end of June to
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We all seem to agree that the new album, “Cantor del Pueblo”, released 2018, by Alexander Abreu y Havana D’ Primera, lives up to expectations. The band has just had a very successful concert in Copenhagen, June 2018, the second concert in a year. They performed several of the new songs. The audience already knew them and applauded like crazy.
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The “Arrasando” (Devastating) album from 2009 is one of the very best albums by Los Van Van and one of the very best timba albums ever. Here is the story. In 2016 “Arrasando” disappeaerd from Spotify and other music services due to some copyright issue. For several years now, no one has heard this fantastic album unless they have the
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“Salsafy Your Life”, Dancing Solutions to Energize Your Life, An A-Z Guide, is a cute little book, published 2018. Almost a “Salsa for Dummies for Children and Grown Ups”. Most pages have a headline with a picture of dancers often featuring the author, a short paragraph or two, a yellow post-it note, and a bulleted list with highlights. Almost a
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Laura Riva is in a class of her own. Her Canadian based dance blog, The Dancing Grapevine – All about the “Social” part of Dancing, is without doubt the mother of all dance blogs, when it comes to the social aspects of dancing. Laura has a formidable ability to generalize in the good sense, to always be spot on, to
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