Salsa is wonderful to watch! Guapea, Pa’l Medio, Sombrero, Gancho; one hundred salacious steps, sudden flicks, fluid twirls, swirling skirts, camaminos, dame son sopresa, soporific suenas, salsa is frolicsome! An unconscious hand (do you believe that?) strays smoothly over the sweat-scape of another’s body all the time.
Some call it a wicked workout – physical and mental. Surely, the only one you go to all dressed up. Permanent partners (a bit like marriage, really) dancing breath-close to you. Smelling your hair, slipping their ubiquitous arm round the small of your back (just the way I like to do).
If my girl suddenly turned to Salsa, the choices would be bright-red crystal. One, I go along. Two, she walks away from it. Three, I walk away from everything! And, still, Salsa really is sweet with maddening manoeuvres, crazy kinetics!
Brilliant, Nana. Many people of both sexes feel the same way about salsa. Thanks for putting it so well in words.
ReplyDeletenow there, the better choice will be to go along. Who else,but u should be all up ur girl.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Devlin. Though you'll agree with me that it is not particularly about Salsa, but about all 'contact' events, no?
ReplyDeleteLucci, are you saying that if I will not go (simply because I do not like dancing) then my girl should still go?
ReplyDeleteThis piece reminds me of what happened to a friend of mine.she was crazy about salsa and her boyfriend had no interest in the dance.she had another male friend who loved the dance and so every friday she and this friend went salsa dancing.her boyfriend had no problem with this arrangement. In the end she got married to this other guy and they have a baby boy.i know for a fact because i was her maid of honour.Nana i agree with lucci that if your girl likes the dance,find something about the dance that you like too and go with her!
ReplyDeleteI don't know about that, Kordai. If you don't like something, you don't like it. Not many girls will go to a ball game on every Saturday just to please their man. The reverse can only be fair. The best compromise is if aspects of an activity highly offend your partner, you ought to channel your interest into something else, which they will accept.
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