The last dance...

When I go to a salsa practica, or any other dance party, I usually stay till the end... till the music stops. Sometimes you can go a whole night without really "enjoying" any of the dances... and those times I just leave - but it happens very rarely. Usually the DJ plays at least a few songs I LOVE, or I get to dance with a couple of leads I LOVE dancing with, or both ;)

And I like to end the night with a favorite song, or dancing with one of my favorite leads. Last night it was both :) It was almost surreal... And the entire way back home in the car I played this song in a loop. A single dance like this is enough to keep me engaged!

'Save the last dance for me' has so much more depth to it than meets the ears ;)

Anyways, here is the last song from last night:

"How long have you been dancing?"

A question that I get at almost every dance party I go to :) Usually it follows a compliment "You dance so well", "You are so awesome" or something similar...

And when I tell them how long I have been dancing, the response varies from "Reallllllllly? Only 2 months?" "Oh, a year, no wonder you are so good" :)

Thing is, I have been dancing a year, but my "level" has stayed the same :( Sad in a way... I learnt SO quickly in the first 2 months, and have not improved much since... I used to be happy to answer this question in 2012, because their reaction was usually admiration, but now they dismiss it with "oh so long..."

I preferred it when I was a salsa 'prodigy' of sorts :D haha :D 

Art of leading!

I was helping out in a dance class (or being a dance model ;)), and Scott wanted me to demonstrate a new step which is not very commonly danced - at least, I had never done it before.

And instead of stopping and teaching me how it is done, Scott just *made* me follow during one of the practice breaks in class. Only when we stopped dancing did I realize how expertly he had led me. Renewed respect for awesome leads! :)

And later in class I learned that the move was called a "chase turn"... hmm...