Salsa For People Who Probably Shouldn't - Hardcover

An entertaining memoir about salsa and the British, by a tall, white, clumsy Englishman who learned the dance with his Colombian wife

Matt Rendell learned salsa the British way, as an adult, rote-learning figures and routines. His Colombian wife, Vivi, acquired salsa in early childhood from her parents and grandparents; the dance made her part of her community. A love story about two people from cultures at sometimes comical cross-purposes, Salsa for People Who Probably Shouldn't explores how the world's most popular dance went global, how it reached the UK, and whether the saucy, salacious salsa of their national fantasy life is really as exotic as the British like to think. It looks at how, through salsa, the British negotiate personal issues like mind-body relations or sex, and wider social ones like their national identity crisis, and it contains interviews with some of salsa's most renowned dancers and musicians, as well as with dance coaches from Strictly Come Dancing.