Good bye, salsa LA

Finally I’ve given up the LA style. The main reason is that I like much more the casino, which is more authentic. The small one is that I’ve got annoyed by its complexity and pretence. That was a hard step after a year of intensive study.

The same story of music

The same story repeated, I discovered that I can’t just calmly listen to the argentine tango music. But I used to earlier! The same story, like with the salsa music!

When I hear their melody, rhytm or whatever else, warm and exciting emotions come to my head, and fill out all my mind. There’s the only desire after that: to dance one more time again.

Many things happened during the last month. I’ve been quite busy on the job, participated in an international salsa congress “Salsa mayovka”, opened the bike season after the winter break etc.

First milonga

It happend indeed! The other day I visited the first in my life tango milonga. After three unsuccessful attempts.

Well, I’m astonished, not deeply impressed. But I think I’ll like them in the nearest future. The music of good quality is not loud, one can just seat and have chat with others.

I felt that dancing on milongas would give me a masterfulnes and some certainty that I’m doing well, that my experience is portable indeed. It’s not an assumtion, it’s a fact!

Dancing with teachers

I really like dancing with teachers! They treat me very carefully, just like my mother does. The fear of failure goes away when I'm dancing with a teacher, so the dance become much more clear and fluent. Tonight I liked dancing with Anya (the teacher of NY) very much, just can't recover my sense!

It happend indeed!

I danced salsa with Tanya Yur'yeva today. As long as she is my teacher, the fact itself is something like a ceremony of initiation for me. Actually, I've been trying to catch her for two last months, but she was too busy to visit salsa parties. "The ambition of an idiot" became true ;-)

Experience is a big deal!

To gain dancing experience, I went to the "Luxor" night club the last Saturday. I knew no one, and no one knew me there. Nevertheless, (almost) every experienced girl I was dancing with determined that I'm learning in the Salsa club. Moreover, one of them guessed my teacher's name. I was very astonished, how they all could know that! It appeared that every school has its own features and habits in leading, and my partners knew and distinguished them.