When poet and biographer Grevel Lindop takes up Salsa dancing in rainy Manchester, all he has are size 12 feet and excruciating adolescent memories of ballroom dancing lessons.
Funny, passionate and inspiring by turns, it is a book that will be loved by Dance addicts and armchair travellers alike..
His quest also gives rise to basic confrontations with himself: can a 6\'4" white, English poet really dance? And what happens when he does? "
Travels on the Dance Floor" is Lindop\'s vibrant and evocative account of his odyssey, written with wry humour and a poet\'s eye for colour, detail and atmosphere.
From the streets, bars and dancehalls of Cuba, Venezuela and Colombia to those of Panama, Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Miami - land of Cuban exiles - he stumbles across a colourful cast of characters and a raft of new tricks.
Inspired to learn more, Lindop decides on a solo adventure to find the geographical and cultural roots of salsa.
Intense and intimate, sexy and addictive, the adrenalin-pumping Afro-Latin-American Dance style soon becomes an obsession.
But Salsa has a way of getting into your blood.
When poet and biographer Grevel Lindop takes up Salsa dancing in rainy Manchester, all he has are size 12 feet and excruciating adolescent memories of ballroom dancing lessons
