In the beginning...
In the beginning, there cha-cha-cha, mambo and boogaloo (not in logical order)...now there is salsa, merengue and bachata... :) This is the first of a few blogs written about dancing, more specifically Latin dancing (Salsa, Bachata and Merengue if available) from a social aspect. The author is not a professional but rather an amateur and passionate about the music and the associated dancing. A word if I may regarding the last type of dancing, Merengue. For some unknown reason to this author, Merengue has fallen off the cliff of the planet (relatively speaking as of 2024), and from the social dancing scene. Reasons for this are probably a few, and beyond what is intended from this blog, however it still shows up in between whenever DJs are interested in "pumping up a crowd" or trying their hands at "tropical music" for what seems like 5 mins anyways. A much more fascinating opinion and potential explanation came from the words of an anonymous German dancer which c...