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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Love: Sofi Cook; Like: Artur Ganaev, Leoncio Caicedo, Philip Frost, Kaloqn Dakov
Philip Wake El Grande London at Scala featured more beautiful and talented salseras tonight than I’ve ever seen before at any event anywhere! Thank you Inga, Sara, Abena, Ugne, Borislava, Sabina, Ellen and many other charming ladies for my beautiful dances. The performances of Jennifer White‘s Reinas De Timba and Fuego Caleño’s Ladies Team were totally professional and highly entertaining but I have to say I’ve never seen anything to match the stunningly passionate performance of Juan & Clarita! I had a nice surprise on the way out after having my last dance with a lady I nearly missed thus finishing an amazing night in tremendous style! ❤️
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- Inga Mamedova Philip Wake It’s always a great pleasure sharing a dance or two on the venue like this 😃👌 2 Love: Philip; Like Sara
- Ellen Nicola Philip Wake pleasure! How do I find our photos? Xx 1
- Philip Wake Ellen – they usually publish photos as a way of advertising the next El Grande so it will be just before 20 March: www.facebook.com/events/567179543887088 1
- Ellen Nicola Philip Wake thankyou x 1
- Philip Wake Ellen See you there again? xx
- Ellen Nicola Philip Wake for sure xx 1 Love: Philip
- Sara Borrego Thank you so much for your dances and your energy! It is just a pleasure every time i see you! 🔥💃🕺 #dancers #salsa #dance #salsalondon 1 Love: Philip