“We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.”
The following was written by Laurent Duperval one of our awesome Salsa students “We should consider every day lost on which we have not danced at least once.” —Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche I was petrified. If you had been there you would have had difficulty distinguishing me from the wall. I admit it was my fault. I thought it was from 8 to 11 PM but it was from 7 to 10 PM. I showed up at nine. Everyone seemed to know each other and they were all way out of my league. Finally, after 30 minutes, I mustered enough courage to ask someone to dance. To my surprise—and relief—she said “yes” with a smile. I was probably terrible. After another 20 minutes of hesitation, I gathered enough courage to ask someone else to dance. She said yes. I was still terrible. Then it was over. That, in a nutshell, was my first experience at a Baila Productions dance. Almost two years later, I have managed to become more comfortable on the dance floor. Yet, every time I go to a new club, I feel like the very first time I went to a Baila dance. Truth be told, I sometimes don’t go to a club unless people I know will be there already. My confidence in asking strangers to dance isn’t all that it could be. I still keep this experience close to my heart every time I go to a dance and it guides my behavior. In fact, like Asimov’s robot, I live by three rules. Rule number 1: I always dance with at least one new person at every dance. I make a special effort to identify women that I’ve never seen before, especially [...]
