Christmas 2010 Salsa Social

It’s been 2 years since I seriously celebrated Christmas and I thought this year will be the same, staying home, sleeping early and just bumming around the house on Christmas day. Well, that didn’t really happen as the week was spend going from place to place for some Salsa Social.

Even though the community of salsa dancers is still small, I would say it is growing rapidly with more new faces appearing at the clubs every day. In KL, the Christmas celebration started from Wednesday at Aliyaa til Sunday at Shivz with tunes ranging from salsa to bachata and the occasional zouk tunes. (more…)

Lambada-Zouk & Bachata Night @ Shivz

Just recently Shivz opened it’s doors to the salsa community on Thursdays for a weekly session of Lambada-Zouk and Bachata just for the crowd that’s into those genre of dance instead of the more common Salsa, Bachata or Merenggue. I don’t dance Lambada-Zouk, tried to pick it up but crashed and burnt, but seeing how there’s a strong following by a small group of people to this genre of dance and how gracious Shivz is by having a night just for it on top of the salsa night on Sundays, I decide to volunteer my services.

So yeah, you can catch me at Shivz on Thursday as well where I’ll be spinning a lot of Lambada Zouk tunes on top of some Bachata and a few Salsa thrown in (so that I can at least have a few dance myself).The majority type of Zouk I play on these nights is the Neo-Zouk where the music is mixed and fused with trance and modern music with basic Zouk beats, the original French or Portuguese lyrics are ommitted as Neo-Zouk ethuthiasts have better connection with transcendental music. For the you, especially with this genre of dance and all these new terms you’re reading, you can swing by at 9.00pm onwards where Cherie Thum would conduct a small introductory workshop for beginners to the world of Lambada-Zouk, more precisely, the Porto Seguro-style. (more…)