I always look forward to being part of the biggest and best monthly salsa dancing venue in the UK which is El Grande at Scala from 21:30 to 05:00 – 4 rooms for salsa, cubana, bachata & kizomba – often attended by more than 1200 dancers! Entry is £12 whether you do the lessons or not. The venue is Scala just a few hundred yards down the road from King’s Cross St. Pancras Tube Station at 275 Pentonville Rd, Kings Cross, London N1 9NL. There’s always somewhere to park for free in the surrounding roads – you just have to drive round until you find somewhere.
I usually arrive around 9:30pm and do the improvers lesson and then dance the night away until around 3am when I am usually ready to leave because my salsa soul has been fulfilled or sometimes because I have overheated, have run out of shirts or am knackered!
Please see the facebook event on the El Grande London page for details for this particular night but the usual timetable is:
- 09:00 Doors open
- 09:30 Lesson at various levels for each dance genre in the 4 rooms
- 10:30 Social dancing
- 01:00 (approx) Performances
- 01:15 (approx) Social dancing continues
- 04:55 kizomba, cuban & bachata rooms close
- 05:00 salsa room closes and time to go home
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Ralu Frusina I am afraid I am on duty today and tomorrow 🤗
Philip Wake That’s a shame – it’s my last salsa before Christmas – but I’ll be going to Boxing Day Mega Party – The Latin Collective at Bar Salsa Soho! xx
Any Lee I’ll see you tonight there 🙂
Janet Harris 😬😬😬
Philip Wake That was a fabulous Xmas special to end the sequence of 12 monthly El Grande‘s for 2018. I had many excellent dances but the highlights of the night for me were recruiting some ladies for Melitta‘s salsa improvers lesson which was slightly over populated with men (normally I join the lesson for fun but with the shortage of ladies I had more important work to do), watching Edwin & Melitta‘s passionate performance and having the last beautiful dance of the night with the lovely Melitta! ❤️💃🔥🕺❤️
Love: Melitta; Like: John LSH;