By admin, on September 4th, 2011
Yesterday was one of the only real summer days that we have had this year. A friend of ours sent a Whats app text inviting us out to Mango’s beach bar in Zandvoort aan Zee. We arrived back in time to collect the tickets at Het WitteTheater it was 18:40 the doors opened at 18:30 starting off with 8 workshops. I found it surprisingly quiet, we went home had dinner and got ready. Irene arrived and shortly after came Sandra, I already had three ladies to dance with.
We arrived in time for the party 21:00, very few people compared to the year before. The band a 5 piece lady Salsa band “RUMBADAMA” was just great. every 30 minutes they would take a break and DJ Latin Masters played the music..
The demos as well as the demonstrations where done by ZoukLovers, Club Fiera and Patrick Mussendijk.
Patrick Mussendijk is just one of the best dancers you could ever meet. He is so relaxed while doing so many moves it makes it look easy. The bachata team from Club Fiera done a good bachata routine. I noticed that they have got their timing good and come over much more relaxed than in the past. I am sorry to say but I personally found the Zouk routine from ZoukLovers under par. The dancers mist flow, rhythm, and lacked confidence. I seen them struggling through some moves.
Stalls: Dance shoes from Peroti Zapatos, Oma’s Kitchen: Suriname kitchen, SalsaSupply had DVD’s as well as shoes, and Most Wanted with DVD.s.
We enjoyed the party, it was a lot less busy than first year. It was very warm on the night. The floor was very hard to dance on. I spoke to a lot of people who had problems dancing, even with dance shoes, it felt like that it needed a good buffering, which was a shame.
I don’t know if they will have a VELSALSA 3 if they do, I will go again, we met a lot of people we know and it is a nice location.
A beer cost 2 euros.
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I made a few clips seen here:
Patrick Mussendijk
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RUMBADAMA
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By admin, on August 14th, 2011
Lately I notice that there are less and less salsa parties around the North Holland area’s. We do have a few monthly parties, but as keen dancers we like to dance as much as possible, at least a few times per week. Looking around the net I found a site with a flyer that stated salsa parties in the Grand Café Cinetone, close to Amstel.
We had never been there before so just before leaving we gave them a ring to check. It’s the summer months and most dance schools are on holidays, we find that some dance school internet sites are not updated as they should be. They told us that the party is on but the site has not been updated and the parties have moved from Sunday night to Friday night. Great, we thought, it’s also exciting to go to a new location. Maybe it’s really busy or maybe it’s empty, either way we can dance.
The main roads lead right up to the cafe so it took us only 25 minutes to get there. When we arrived it was really quiet, there was only 3 ladies and no men in sight. Two ladies sat on comfortable chairs and the other at the bar. The DJ was playing merengue. We got a drink and found two nice sued chairs to sit on.
It is a really nice place, the theme of the cafe is of an old movie theater with posters of old famous movie stars. When the first salsa song was being played we got up to dance, we where alone and just enjoyed being able to dance. later on a few more people arrived, in total 6 more people. We found it to be a really nice location, the music was good, lots of salsa and bachata, also some older slow bachata.
For the first few hours when anyone wanted to dance you where basically on your own, what can be a bit nerve raking, but the people where all experienced dancers and had no problem dancing alone.
The dance floor was made from hard linoleum, not the best material for a dance floor but we could dance on it without any problems. It is not a big floor, maybe room for 10 couples.
I ordered a Bacardi cola and a glass of Rose which cost me €10:00 the Bacardi cola cost €6:50.
We found it to be a nice place and will certainly go back again, when leaving the owner told us that it is usually busier than tonight it is because the site had not been updated and the salsa night had been changed from Sunday to Friday.
Before I left home, I had posted the party on Twitter. The next time I will certainly put it in Tip of the Week on stephencassidy.nl and in our Latin Dance agenda on DanceBachata.nl
I think it will be on next Friday night, so we will phone before we go.
Stephen Cassidy,
stephencassidy.nl
DanceBachata.nl
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By admin, on July 6th, 2011
This Salsa & Bachata Party Deluxe Party was a special edition as it was Nucita, Bripa and Esther’s birthday party. Three in one you might say. Nucita is the organizer of the party, Bripa gives salsa classes at one of her dance schools and Esther does the administration for Club Fiera.
It was not as busy as it . . . → Read More: Salsa & Bachata Party Deluxe 18th June 2011 – Osdorp
By admin, on June 5th, 2011
SuzyQ and Dances2Love, have had parties before, but this party was just great fun. We arrived pretty early, had a chat with the Jan and Mini the owners of the Bonel dance school who give Ballroom classes at the location, and done a few dances. The evening started out quiet, I was thinking all the promotions . . . → Read More: SuzyQ – Dances2Love Latin Party 4 June 2011
By admin, on April 21st, 2011
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