My Blue Heaven

Dirty Dancing 2

I went to see Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights last night. It was awesome! I reeally liked it… and I wanna see it again! 🙂 It’s really made me long to dance again. I haven’t been to dance class or a club in absolutely aaaaages. And its starting to really eat at me… I’m just itching to dance again… somewhere.. anywhere!! I’ve been all jittery all day coz I’m wanting to dance so much.. :\

I’m thinking of trying Salsa again. I’ve only been once before, to a beginner class at Club Salsa. The only problem is that I’m impatient… the basic steps bore me long before others in the beginners class master the steps.. and I wanna do more complicated stuff, the kinda stuff you see the advanced dancers do! But I do have problems in following the lead of the guy – I’m not used to doing that.. probably coz I’ve been too trained in jazz dance, where you’re very independant, dancing the steps by yourself. Still, if I gave it a bit of a chance, I think I could learn pretty easily. I actually very nearly made it into the Intermediate class after that first Salsa class (the week I went happened to be an audition week for the int/adv levels – I went up and auditioned just for the hell of it. I think the thing that held me back was a couple of times I balked at following my partners lead coz I didn’t know what he was doing). 🙂

Now if only I had more time…. *sigh*

Oh yeh, as for the movie, I liked it. My only minor disappointment with it was how they subtly “modernised” certain aspects of the movie. Like you’d expect lots of traditional cuban/latin music… but it was more latin flavoured R&B (artists like Wyclef Jean, Santana, Black Eyed Peas) than traditional Cuban stuff. And yeh, it was set in the 50’s, but some parts seemed slightly.. modern.. for the 50’s, making it seem a little unrealistic. (Like the Cuban club scenes.) But I still loved watching it, and I’d definitely pay to see it again! 🙂

Oh yeh, and the lead guy in the movie.. Diego Luna.. hello! He was kinda hot… and sexy.. *cough*.. maybe it was the dancing. It’d be cool to dance with someone like him. 🙂 Also, there’s a little suprise in the movie for the original Dirty Dancing fans. Keep an eye out for it! 🙂

Current listening :: Dirty Dancing Havana Nights OST (yes I went straight out and bought the album today.. I’m obsessed, I know.. :P)

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