Dancing Sunday

After the frustration with the Brazilian party – where I intended to dance a lot, I decided to dedicate my Sunday to one of my passions: dancing!

In the afternoon, I went to the Sydney Dance Company, probably the most renowned contemporary dance company in Australia. But they also have classes for amateurs. And I took one of those – Broadway Jazz, quite nice! It certainly made me remember of Lalau Miranda, the Gaucho Dance Group I used to be part when I was in high school.

As it wasn’t enough, in the evening I went to a salsa class, followed by social salsa dancing. During my dancing day, some things called my attention:

- As my 32 year old female teacher was going to US to dance some musical, I could confirm than late maternity and instability are not big issues to Australians. In general, they are less attached to social rules and follow their dreams more easily. The economic situation is surely related to that;

- If Australians don’t follow that many rules in life, when it comes to shake their bodies, they seem to need 100 rules. Instead of just having fun, in the salsa class they were eager to learn a new step and there were lots of signs, pulls and lines so that they could accomplish it.

Cultural differences…