Perhaps its that I don’t really know what Cuban dance is all about but Mirela and I were certainly surprised about the show we got. We were expecting a lot of Latin dancing – a lot of salsa, a lot of rumba, and basically a lot of sizzling, sexy, hot dancing. Even now we’re not entirely sure what we got.

The first half of the show was strangely indigineous with a lot of African style music and African style dancing. No doubt about it the dancers were very skilled but the rhythm of the show was disrupted by the unusual and odd pattern to the performance. It got a little bit better in the second half, but not much. I did enjoy the Latin dancing very much (when it arrived) and the urban flavour was also good additon. Unfortunately for most of the show though there was supposed to be a journey … I’m not sure we were on the same path cause I don’t think I ended up at the same destination! I was also disappointed to find that spoken bits were in Spanish – I respect that it is a Cuban show and all and fair enough for the songs to be in Spanish but I don’t think it helped me understand what was going on. Mirela did her best to translate for me – didn’t help!

Though the show as a little disappointing (I certainly couldn’t get into it as much as I did Into the Hoods) there is no doubt that the performers – the dancers, the singers and the band were extremely talented and highly energetic. Very quick with the costume changes too!

There were also free salsa classes after the show which seemed quite popular – as expected though it was mostly ladies sticking around for the class!