Candela Pura Salsa Social

Candela Pura was insane on Saturday. This salsa event was organized by Dulce, Carlos and Ricardo of PV.  We had many salsero friends visit us here in Puerto Vallarta from Guadalajara. DJs Mambo, Salsa Vice, Brus and Tony Salsero were playing some hot, rhythmic salsa and bachata songs and keeping the vibe going.
Ricardo Zaragoza  was great as an MC and Cocoache as always never disappoints. There must have been approx. 400 people in one infectious room getting really sweaty to Latin beats. If any nightclub doubts that salseros and bachateros can be good business, this was the best evidence that they're wrong. Viva la salsa!

Candela Pura fue una locura el sabado. El evento de salsa  fue organizado por Dulce, Carlos y Ricardo de PV.  Muchos de nuestros amigos salseros nos visitaron aqui en Puerto Vallarta de Guadalajara. DJs Mambo, Salsa Vice, Brus y Tony Salsero tocaron musica caliente y ritmica   de salsa y bachata para que la vibra siga con fuerza.
Ricardo Zaragoza fue el MC y el grupo Cocoache nunca nos decepciona.  Fueron casi 400 personas  para estar en un cuarto infeccioso sudando con los ritmos latinos. Si algun club duda que los salseros y bachateros no son buen negocio esa noche fue evidencia que estan equivocados. Viva la salsa! 

Salsa and El Dorado

I'm so excited to be collaborating with El Dorado on Los Muertos Beach for Salsa nights on Friday!
It's a beautiful, beachfront restaurant with a lot of potential to be the SPOT for Latin Dancing. Every Friday from 9p.m. to 1 a.m. we'll be playing Latin rhythms and people can dance the night away or eat dinner and have drinks while they watch some of the most amazing dancers in Puerto Vallarta show off their talents. The goal is to have salsa, bachata, cha cha competitions, performances, and live music events. We also want to collaborate with charity organizations to help raise awareness for their causes. So excited about all of this coming together!

Salsa at El Dorado

I was sick as a dog on our first Salsa Social at El Dorado on Friday. I wanted to start that Friday ongoing series with a bang, but had been battling the flu or some but that knocked me onto my bed all week. The place needed better lighting and sound, but we're working on improving those two areas. El Dorado is a casual, fun, beach club-like restaurant with a lot of potential. I'm hoping to make our Fridays socials  fun, salsa, bachata, cha cha cha dancing   something people look forward to. Our first night attracted about 35 people. Not bad for a first night...

The Salsa EWW Factor

So... I'm going to skip all the rambling today about starting out with Latin Motion and it's progression.What I do want to mention  today is how unsettling people's egos and attitudes can be in the salsa world. Salsa, bachata and all of the other Latin dances evoke sensuality, passion , a joie de vivre-if you will- but then it's unfortunately  peppered with unsavory people that just want to show-off, think they're the best- and their style is the best because all the rest are out of style or not worthy of mention. They think that our lives are suddenly glorified because they SHOWED UP  on the dance floor or area where we reside. These are the people that give salsa that EWW!!! factor (will not ever mention names here). Dance, salsa dance specifically--call me am idealist-- should be about getting together, having a good time, and learning from each other's styles. Some that become very enamored with the dance will choose to go on and compete in local or national competitions, some will  perform and train to do exhibitions and shows, and some simply want to social dance  and enjoy the infectious music with their friends or significant others. All are valid reasons and really should there be a reason to dance?!.  It's so much nicer when we don't have to say, EWW!!

Latin Motion PV

So that's why I decided to start the page, mainly just as a means to communicate with other fellow dancers and as an attempt to provide visitors and new residents a forum from which they can find out where they can take a class or go dancing.When I started the page, it was exciting because dancing is exciting--it became a new hobby/ diversion. I don't have the tube so it became my diversion and from there I began to think of all of the possibilities with dance, my unfulfilled dreams, what I love to do, what I've been too afraid to try, what I have been denying myself, the changes the I wish I could make in the world, the fact that time passes by so quickly, etc. I've always been a risk-taker and a think outside-the-box kind of a person and as a result have had many failures. Call me a masochist, but this is the only way I challenge myself to grow-falling down on my face and getting back up. I suppose each time, I learn to get better at it so why stop trying? That is when the real visualizing began...

My first step...

I began Latin Motion PV, first as a Facebook page because as a lover of salsa and other Latin dances I didn't know where to go to enjoy these dances when I first arrived to Puerto Vallarta a year and a half ago. I moved here from the Bay area, California and everyone is well-connected about events and classes there.  I  La Bodeguita was an option which was conveniently close to where I live, but I didn't know where else to go and I didn't no where and if there were salsa classes anywhere. People didn't know me, I didn't know them,  so it took a little exploring, inquiring, and showing up at places on my own to feel the vibe. Sooo, I put myself in the shoes of the newcomer or visitor of Puerto Vallarta and decided to create a page for fun to help newcomers figure out where to go and so that us salseros in the community can communicate with each other about where classes, events and bands are playing. We are afterall, a small group and it's best when we don't divide ourselves so that we have enough people to dance with.