And So, We Are Aware

It’s telling isn’t it? My recent posts on the Cape Town SBK scene seem to have stirred the dance floor in both delightful and… uhh, less-than-delightful ways.   Let’s start with the bad, shall we? Certain individuals have stopped greeting me altogether. Shocking, I know.  But honestly, it’s no great losss. I wasn’t planning on dancing…

About Ginga…

We all have Ginga, it just depends how we use it, or what we use it for. Some guys have loads of it when it comes to playing football, others are good poets, some ladies show it when they walk and a few people in the way they dress.  Ginga, it is skill, it is…

Bachata: Symbolising love

I’ve read that, back in the day, Bachata was frowned upon, because it was danced by Black people in the Dominican Republic. In fact, it was not just a discrimination of colour, but a bias of class, too. So the elitists of that island disassociated themselves from the people who danced this Bachata. That was…