Leading salsa
So other than a few times of salsa dancing in undergrad, I pretty much picked it up when I came to MIT and started dancing with the Boston Rueda group. Since I went to about two practices a week, I started learning pretty quickly, but we would go over a lot of the same moves. I don't mean to sound egotistical, but I pick up the moves pretty quickly, and I would get a little bored when we would go over them a lot. So then one day I started learning how to become a leader. I guess I learned how to be a leader fairly easily because I can mentally reverse the roles and not need to re-learn the move to be able to lead it.It really made me realize that I'm good at this when, during one of my first practices with them, the advanced rueda group let me lead. And yesterday, I switched from being a follower to a leader halfway through an MIT Rueda workshop, and some of the girls commented that I was their favorite leader. :-) I know all of that made me sound like a complete egotistical jerk, but dancing makes me happy, and I wanted to share this.
Speaking of the MIT rueda group - I don't understand them. I dance with a Boston Rueda group, and we have about 6 practices a week, where we focus on teaching all levels of rueda. All our lessons are free, and everyone that teaches is a volunteer. The MIT Rueda group holds workshops a few times a semester, charges a decent amount of money, and holds exclusive practices once a week. I've e-mailed the MIT Rueda exec a few times and their president specifically once, but I've yet to receive any sort of response. Why do they have to be so unresponsive and seemingly unwelcoming? I talked to someone at the workshop yesterday, and he said he would talk to the president about getting back to me, so we'll see. I would just like to dance with people from MIT in addition to the Boston group, and why does that have to be so hard?
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