No real salsa craze going on here that I have picked up on. Sure, people are learning it at the studios in the region, and Chicago has a salsa club or two, as it always has. But I'm not seeing a lot of young people clamoring around to learn it, nor am I noticing it in the media as a "craze" in the nightclubs or college campuses. If it's going gangbusters in Europe, that means it will get here in a bigger dose eventually. No one in our classes makes a noticable request for more Salsa, and nobody I teach ever presses me on wanting that dance over the others. But I am glad to hear it apparently is growing in popularity. It's fun, though not particularly easy for beginners to catch on and embrace. I think I started a thread not long ago in which I said the salsa, for whatever reason, was one that I quite easily would forget the steps and timing if I went too long without dancing it. In closing I would again say I hope Terence is correct about dancing's staying power, and I hope that JJ is incorrect about the economy taking a more disastrous tumble than the Great Depression. Somewhere in the middle is probably where the truth lies -- things may not get as bad as JJ is thinking, and dancing may suffer a little bigger hit than Terence envisions.
