Hi, Welcome to my Website,

This site is about the things I love to be and do.

If you are interested in what I do professionally, or if you are looking for ways to secure a comfortable future for yourself  then a visit HERE might be worth a look. ——– and that’s as much as I’m going to say about business.

Dancing, Dogs and Quartehorses  seems to be an apt title for my personal life, apart from my journey to discover and reveal the person that my dogs think  I am, my life truly is made up of Dancing, Dogs and Quarterhorses.

Dancing

My passion is Salsa, particularly Cuban Casino and Casino de Rueda( which is Cuban casino danced in with a group of people in the form of a wheel where the moves are called by a caller), and its great fun.

I started of dancing Salsa in its American crossbody form ie “NewYork On2″, but there aren’t many On2 teachers in the UK, so I took up “NewYork On1″,

It was very balletic, routine oriented and felt more like  a ballroom style , it portrayed what I would call “suits,boots and sequins” and was very formal. The unfortunate,or perhaps in hindsight fortunate, thing for me was that my teacher at the time would teach crossbody routines that have a  formal feel to them and then for practice play Salsa music that was very free, edgey and freeflowing. The dance and the music just didn’t fit each other. So all the routines that were learnt couldn’t be practised  very well. I wasn’t a very happy bunny.

But, me being the persistent bugger that I am and the type of person that immerses themselves deeply in something, I wasn’t going to give up and  so I went along to a “3 day Weekender” in Pontins Pakefield to try to learn more  but frustration set in to the point where on the Sunday evening the music was just too edgey to dance Crossbody to. I spent the most part of the  evening listening to this fabulous music that I couldn’t really dance to.  So I thought I’ve got to do something about this.

I did some research and discovered that there is another Style of Salsa  which was the Original Cuban Casino. and by luck and good fortune I found that this  great Cuban Casino Teacher “Richard Fallon” was going to be teaching Cuban Casino in Norwich.

Wow, I thought, thats only 50 odd miles from where I live. I can do that. and so my journey to heaven started.

I had seen the light and I discovered that for me, Cuban Casino is the business, its funky, free flowing, down to earth, its about connection with the music and with your partner,and the cuban dancers are very very  friendly people. The movement is completely different than the American Salsa styles (crossbody) as you dance Cuban in a triangular/circular form whereas the crossbody styles are danced as though you are dancing on tramlines/ Rails which I found to be very restricting and doesn’t allow for much expression,  as I say now  “Not Suits No  Boots, No Sequins No Rails.

I’ve had an interest in dancing for many years. When I was in my mid-teens in the sixties and live bands  and dance halls were the way we entertained ourselves, the best way of  getting a girl were to make sure you could jive and rock and roll. So, guess what I did,  I became a  boogie woogie, jive and rock and roller.

Now some think they are the same thing but there’s quite a difference, not only in the dance, but in the energy and the personalities of the folks that danced them. but no matter what the style we all had a great time.

I didnt like disco too much as there was no, or at least very little, contact with partners.