Obersations and Personal Experiences while visiting Seoul, Korea to attend the SalsaCon 1 Festival Oct 7- Oct 14, 2013. 1) Air Conditioning is a National Priority in the Seoul Salsa Scene. Every venue I went to had floor to ceiling Industrial Strength Air Conditioning Units- SEVERAL in fact- set all around the room to ENSURE your dance night would be ...

I generally don’t like Dips and warn all prospective dance partners against any attempts at doing them with me if I even sense they are “Dippers”. If I haven’t properly vetted the Dipping potential of a partner and they attempt to Dip me while we dance, I kindly tell them- while we are fumbling through their Dip attempt gone horribly ...

Tonight, I had 7 dances at The Clarendon Grill with every level of dancer from advanced beginner to beginner advanced. And all of the dances were good in 7 different ways. They included the known dancer, the unknown dancer, the really challenging and stimulating dancer, the flirtatious dancer with history, the unexpectedly good dancer out of nowhere, the dancer I ...

Tonight (Wed, Feb 5, 2014) was the first time in years I arrived at a Salsa Club as early as 9pm but it was well worth it- so many fun dances and DJ Lorenzo Haire was rocking the house at The New Zanzibar! But the absolute highlight that put me on a Salsa cloud 9 tonight was a dance that ...

Being Comfortable is for Kids.  Yesterday for me was one of life’s emotional rollercoaster rides of wtf, mild embarrassment, lols, & extreme hunger while working strenuously to maintain my cool in the presence of human crazy. I went into work believing I had lost my job- at my instigation. While I have been itching to leave my do-nothing, dead-end job ...