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Mumbaikars sway their way to salsa

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Give them a Latino track, dancing shoes, a Cuban cocktail and a floor, they will swivel, spin and shimmy; move, turn and lift. Well, this is the magic of Salsa.

Slowly but surely, the partner dance form has stormed its way into the lives of city youths and how. Gone are the days when salsa was restricted to dance schools alone.

It has evolved into a form of social dance which has swayed its way into clubs, coffee shops, terraces, halls and even homes, where salsa aficionados get together almost every day, dance and socialise.

The salsa community in the city boast of more than 500 Salseros, with numbers growing like never before.

Thanks to a number of clubs, individuals and dance schools that are organising salsa nights, a slew of Salsa festivals that happen across cities and also the informal and underground dancing spaces where the dancers get together, Salsa has managed to not just break the routine of their everyday lives, but also create a special bond among people.

To top it all, most of these dancers come from different walks of life. Be it doctors, actors, lawyers, pilots or journalists, the love of salsa brings them together, post their work hours. The best past is that you would find people of all age groups a parts of the circuit.

Mary Lobo, an executive, working with an MNC, who hosts Latin nights on Wednesdays at Shiro, said, "Salsa is an addictive dance form. And there is never an end to learning and improvising it. The three-hour Shiro Salsa night is where people flaunt their skills, experiment and become better at the form. The energy here is simply contagious."

She added that while three years ago, around 50 dancers were a part of the community, now it has crossed 500, especially because of the mushrooming of dance schools and trainers. "The community is so active that apart from dancing, we meet up every once in a while for movies, parties and dinners. It gets you connected to people across the world, as a social dancers we also take part in international salsa festivals and events," said Raoul D'souza, an HR professional, who also owns a dance school called RaSa.

Raoul's school hosts Salsa nights at Ren in Bandra every Sunday.

Apart from Salsa, it's other Latin extensions like Bachata, Rueda and Merengue, that are also part of the socials.

Vicky Oberoi, a dancer and a marketing executive, said, "The thing about salsa dancers is that, we end up doing Salsa and other Latin forms even at a wedding. That's what happened at my Punjabi wedding when I called my friends. They ended up doing Salsa on Bhangra beats. That's what salsa does to us. We can't let go of it."

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