Phew!

Well, another Salsa en la Calle has come and gone, and all I have to say is “Phew!” My knees and feet are still reeling from 11-plus hours of dancing on the concrete – does anyone know the Spanish for “I need a foot massage”?

Oh well, I guess have a full year to recover before next year.

A salsa fan whoops it up.

All in all, it looked as though a great time was had by all. Yes, there was some major disappointment in that the headline attraction missed their connecting flight out of Dallas, but the bands that did show up to play delivered as advertised.

In case you haven’t figured it out yet, I love Salsa en la Calle. Where else can you dance with someone from Columbia, Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and not even be able to speak their language? All that seems to matter is that you share the magic of dance. In that sense, salsa really is a universal language.

Salsa en la Calle 2010

It was great to see so many new faces this year too. I made lots of new friends from the Spokane and Yakima area, and it was nice to finally meet Seattle photographer Jorge Alonso, who was generous enough to share some of his Salsa en la Calle photos on Facebook this past week. Muchas gracias, Jorge! Jorge is a salsa junkie and can be found photographing salsa events throughout the Northwest. Be sure to drop him a note on Facebook to thank him for sharing his work with us.

If you stuck it all night – as many of you did, you saw some great dance performances. And while I won’t pick a favorite, I will say that Los Peques de la Salsa certainly stole the show.

Well, I’m off to soak my feet now – I hope I recover by Thursday so I can start all over again. Thanks to everyone for following my blog these past few weeks. I’ll be back with more salsa news soon.

See you on the dance floor!

August 31, 2010. Uncategorized.