Every week for much of the year, millions of Brits view & vote on Strictly Come Dancing, with the salsa being one of the most popular dances. Dark, enticing Afro-Caribbean rhythms; moving bodies gently interlaced, responding to the music: at first sight, salsa dancing seems to recover something our regimented British lives suppress. For not
much more than a fiver, salsa can reconnect us with our bodies. So we seem to think: with perhaps a million Britons taking a class every week, salsa is statistically our national dance.
Matt Rendell learned salsa the British way, as an adult, rote-learning figures & routines. His Colombian wife, Vivi, acquired salsa in early childhood from her parents & grandparents; the dance made her part of her community.
A love story about two people from cultures at sometimes comical cross-purposes, Salsa for People who Probably Shouldn