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Taiwan Salsa Festival 2006
Man! Time flies when you're on holiday...
Juz came back from Taiwan... Superb place! Lots of
food, clothes, frenly ppl... The Taiwan Salsa Fest was a great blast! It was
small, but real cosy. We met Israel and Juan Carlos who are both really
fantastic Cuban dancers. They way they isolate their shoulders and bodies just
make you gulp... and drool. The great thing about taking part in overseas
festivals is that you get to see the different ways each country dances Salsa.
For example, Singapore's version of Bachata accentuates the hip on the 4 and 8,
while the ppl in Taiwan do not do that! Instead, they glide their hip up slowly
on the 4 and 8. It creates a totally different feel to the dance, and it'll be
cool to incorporate it in our Bachata. And ohmigosh, the way Juan Carlos dances
Bachata is fantabulous! haha... I can't describe it except that you have to
follow him coz his rhythm changes as he feels it and as the music flows. haha...
That's dancing from the heart for you!
The Taiwanese people were super friendly. On our
first night there, they brought us to eat Tai Chung's most famous stinky tofu...
It was cooked to perfection lah! Haha... One our students in the workshop, Sugar
(tt's her name! =p), offered to drive us back to the hotel from the place where
we conducted our workshop, on both days! She also bought us chicken feet and
some crackers that were famous in Tai Chung... So sweet of her!
Taiwan's a great place to go... the night life's
fantastic, the variety of food is amazing and intoxicating, the people are
fun-loving and shopping's great!
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