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Home Schooled Salsa

I am currently a senior instructor and managing director for London’s specialist On2 Salsa School, TNT Dance. As such one of my responsibilities is to look at the Salsa scene, assess growth/decline, and coming trends and put together a list of things that we can incorporate into our school to stay current, to continually add… Read more »

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Salseology Live Music Social – Behind The Scenes

Three months ago TNT Dance (a Salsa company in London) and Salseology (London’s award-winning Salsa band) agreed on a date for the next Live Music Social, Saturday 16th November 2013. Organising such an event is a lot of work but it is NOT something that is beyond the reach of the average dreamer. If you… Read more »

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Thinking Fast and Slow

I was reading Thinking Fast and Slow by Nobel prize winner Daniel Kahneman. I highly recommend this book if you have the time. In this book the author portrays the brain as two systems. System 1 as they call it is the intuitive quick (fast) thinking part of the brain while System 2 is the more… Read more »

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9 Years and Counting

As I slowly approach my 32nd birthday I cannot help but reflect on the hobby that has been my obsession for the past 9 years. Given that my longest job has spanned 2 years (a graduate job at Sapient from 2004 – 2006), the longest optional course was 4 years (MSci computer science from 2000-2004),… Read more »

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Top 3 Post Dance Comments

Over the past 6 months, I have had some strange and amusing responses after dancing with me.  I thought I would share my top 3 post dance comments in a light hearted post.  My top three in no particular order: 1) When I walk into a venue the first thing I do is see if… Read more »

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Enjoy Every Salsa Night

This topic is dear to my heart and one that I wanted to write about for some time. Before we get started let me give the reasons behind this blog. I often hear Salsa dancers complain about parties that they attend. Statements like “I did not enjoy the night because…” – The place was too… Read more »