Travels On The Dance Floor

One man's journey into the heart of salsa, in Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America. Follow Grevel Lindop's vivid and evocative account of his search for the roots of Afro-Latin-American dance.

When poet and biographer Grevel Lindop takes up salsa dancing in rainy Manchester, all he has are size 12 feet and excruciating adolescent memories of ballroom dancing lessons. But salsa has a way of getting into your blood. Intense and intimate, sexy and addictive, the adrenalin-pumping Afro-Latin-American dance style soon becomes an obsession. Inspired to learn more, Lindop decides on a solo adventure to find the geographical and cultural roots of salsa. From the streets, bars, and dance halls of Cuba, Venezuela, and Colombia to those of Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic, and Miami--land of Cuban exiles--he stumbles across a colorful cast of characters and a raft of new tricks. His quest also gives rise to basic confrontations with himself: can a 6'4" white, English poet really dance? And what happens when he does? Travels on the Dance Floor is Lindop's vibrant and evocative account of his odyssey, written with wry humor and a poet's eye for color, detail, and atmosphere. Funny, passionate, and inspiring by turns, it is a book that will be loved by dance addicts and armchair travelers alike.

Ballroom dancing is back! And now anyone can move like a pro. Includes step-by-step photos, footwork illustrations, and instruction covering all the common ballroom dances. The #1 selling ballroom dancing book. Includes hundreds of illustrations and instructions Allen is a renowned, award-winning ballroom-dance teacher

A sensual, evocative history of women and dance; "brilliantly researched and utterly absorbing." --Venue (UK)

You are ready, ready for tango. Anyone can dance. Who doesn't dream of going on a journey and enjoying beautiful music, which touches "all of us". In togetherness, in an embrace, in a dance! I want to share this joy. My tango. It is not a fairy tale that brings us these feelings for tango music. It is a passion, a passion, so beautiful to watch and to feel. A feeling like coming home. A welcoming home, a warm embrace and a beautiful moment, for 10 minutes or longer, depending on the length of the songs. It all happens with a leading man and a reacting-following woman or with dance partners of the same sex. You think it's a dream, and it won't work? Be open and travel with me! In this book. Tango for everyone, traveling around the world. The author Michael Komm: get to know areas of his life, his experiences and his encounters with people. You will see his passion for TANGO, with everything that is there in all facets and nuances of his life. There are friends, family, love, passion, professional passion, giving, enrichment, sexuality-sensuality, scent, feeling and this in such a way that it reaches the heart. To share this, with husband and wife, or life partner, is the art of accepting, understanding and practicing it. Living dance, living love - MY TANGO. In his book, Michael Komm tells us about his point of view, his travels, where it has taken him in over 80 places on our planet, with different worlds. We will read and understand what it is all about! He leaves us free to follow him and to travel. So, it will be a journey around the world for us, with tango. Even for non-dancers, this book offers valuable insider tips to make traveling and LIFE easier. Let's celebrate, rejoice, travel without fear, and embrace the party.

Mike and Barbara Bivona have danced their way around the world, embracing the colorful rhythms of each country and culture in their travels. Now, Mike, the author of Dancing Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona, returns to share more of their globe-trotting adventures in part one of a new travel memoir series. While cruising the islands, they witnessed lava flowing into the surf off the shores of Hawaii and danced on a nightclub floor that once saw the white-uniformed officers of the warships anchored at the naval station in Pearl Harbor. Mike describes the thrill and challenge of learning the intricate steps of the Argentine tango in Buenos Aires and, more importantly, absorbing its proper attitude from master dancers. The brimstone fumes wreathing the slopes of Mt. Vesuvius transported them back in time, as the frozen bodies of the unlucky residents of Pompeii and Herculaneumas well as the evidence of Romans lively erotic imagination left on walls and sculptured into clayinspired numerous colorful conversations. Mike and Barbaras shared passion for art and history has led them to seek out the haunts of other lovers of adventureColumbus, Ponce de Leon, General Custer, circus impresario John Ringling, and the elderly jazz musicians in New Orleans. Part memoir and part travelogue, this volume offers you a trip around the world with the Bivonaswithout ever leaving your chair. Traveling Around the World with Mike and Barbara Bivona by Michael Bivona CPA, published by IUniverse, was a winner in the Annual Eric Hoffer Awards for Short Prose and Independent Books 2014 for eBooks nonfiction The US Review of Books reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott.

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