^THIS
CHRIST, this. So far I've had two girlfriends try and fail to schlep me along to salsa lessons. My attitude to dancing is this: having a good old mosh to some good music is great fun, but having to learn a predetermined series of steps and then repeat them in order like some kind of performing monkey is my idea of Purgatory. That only half-addresses the real issue, though: why SALSA?

There are literally thousands of different dance styles out there. Jive, rock and roll, lindy hop, bebop, line dancing, country dancing, barn dancing, ballroom dancing, breakdancing, modern jazz...most people will probably have heard of all of those. So why does EVERYONE seemingly want to dance salsa? What's so special about it? It's crap. You mince about like you're trying to avoid stepping on a mouse and somehow it's supposed to drive the ladies wild with passion.

The next time anyone tries to sell me the virtues of salsa dancing, I'm going to tell them that 'salsa' is Spanish for 'sauce' and dip a large cast iron tortilla chip I have had manufactured especially for the occasion into their brain cavity.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 17:09, 1 reply)

umm
once you are even vaguely good at a dance style, you don't have to repeat steps in order; you just do whatever you know in whatever order you like. They teach in ordered routines because it makes learning easier.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 22:58, closed)

That's never the way the punters dance, though.
Salsa evenings are populated by lemmings who repeat the movements by rote and gurn to show how much fun they're having.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 23:02, closed)

well
that is odd.
(haberman is singing in the changes, Thu 31 Mar 2011, 23:09, closed)