Salsa! Salsa! Salsa!

I have been feeling so insecure about dancing salsa that everytime I go to Union, I am unwilling to dance with new poeple. I always take the safe route and dance with people I know.
Each time I get on the dance floor, I keep making mistakes and it sucks! I also have a huge problem remembering all the cool moves that I learnt at class. Hate it! Hate myself for it!

I was so affected by these two points until two wonderful young ladies set me straight.

1. Eileen said - "Sometimes even I don't notice the mistakes that you make, how much less will the people looking at us know that there was a mistake at all. Only you know when you make a mistake, but just carry on and dance"
2. Jona said - "Jo, the ladies are not looking for someone who can do all the complicated moves. We don't mind doing the simple moves so long as the guy is confident in what he knows and he makes the lady look good. No need to be so complicated."

I kept thinking about these two points and went down tonight prepared to do the simple things but focussed on making sure that the lady looked good doing it. I had an amazingly wonderful time. I even asked one lady that I hadn't met yet to dance. She said no coz she was really tired (and you could see it in her face!).

Then the band played this fusion piece mixing latin/big band/swing/rock n roll all into one song. Danced with Jona (read her views) on this one and I don't think I have ever had more fun dancing salsa! There was alot of space around us so we could move around more and we kept doing all kind of crazy stuff to suit the music. We spent alot of time dancing apart but trying to still complement each other as we danced.
The coolest part was that there were people around that we just watching us two having fun. I hope to ar that music piece again!!

I am beginning to like dancing salsa all over again!!!