December Salsa Events

I had hoped to go to the Brean Sands event here in the UK this weekend but I had to cancel in order to see someone this Saturday evening, who then cancelled on me Friday due to visitors from overseas :roll: :x

If this wasn't important I would have told them "see you next weekend" but I couldn't. So, when I should have been dancing my little socks off, looks like I will be writing my Christmas cards sooner than intended :?
 
Weeeeellll, I suppose you can say that I still had "24 hours notice" :( BUT all is not lost :banana: we managed to catchup today Sunday so things are 'back on track' :D

It only means though that I wil have to be creative, possibly to the point of inventive :lol: to find some events I can attend before taking off for the holidays.

Singing: Come closer to me, so I can see, heaven in your eyes! :lol:
 
Well one of the other DJs told me he finished at 5.30am yesterday morning, and the floor was still full.

Quite a few people yesterday were saying they hadn't had much sleep...

These events are kind of a step down froom a congress -- whole weekend, several hundred people (850 this time, apparently), instructors, DJs, shows etc.
 
ElSereno said:
These events are kind of a step down froom a congress -- whole weekend, several hundred people (850 this time, apparently), instructors, DJs, shows etc.
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Sounds like you had a great time ElSereno. I am curious though. How is it a step down from a congress? The difference/definition between a "congress", "festival", "weekender" always puzzles me :?
 
Well, only a step down from a congress in the sense that the UK congress, for example, has I'm told perhaps 2000 people, and a top live band, whereas this Pontins event had only 850, and a less well-known non-salsa band in its Caribbean venue, with just DJs in the main salsa venue.

Makes it still bigger than the average weekender, I think...
 
Pacion said:
It only means though that I wil have to be creative, possibly to the point of inventive :lol: to find some events I can attend before taking off for the holidays.
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How about that trip to Scotland you've been procrastinating about :twisted: :wink:
 
MacMoto said:
Pacion said:
It only means though that I wil have to be creative, possibly to the point of inventive :lol: to find some events I can attend before taking off for the holidays.
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How about that trip to Scotland you've been procrastinating about :twisted: :wink:
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:oops: I have run out of time :oops: Next year though! It has been sometime since we had a "celebrity" casually drop in at a salsa club :wink:

ElSereno said:
Well, only a step down from a congress in the sense that the UK congress, for example, has I'm told perhaps 2000 people, and a top live band, whereas this Pontins event had only 850, and a less well-known non-salsa band in its Caribbean venue, with just DJs in the main salsa venue.

Makes it still bigger than the average weekender, I think...
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The UK congress didn't always have 2000 people AND it would appear that for some (based on a previous thread I started) it seems that some who have been dancing sometime would prefer a smaller event. Therefore, just tossing my thoughts out, I don't see how just on numbers of attendees you can say it is a congress or not. I know of other events titled congresses that don't have bands. Still, it is interesting to see.
 
Yep. That's the feeling I'm getting. Congresses can be small. They can be big. They can have bands, or just DJ's. They can have lots of classes or not so many. They can have performances or not. But call them congresses, advertise them on the web, and you're good to go. :wink: :lol:
 
Well, in the UK at least, I've only heard of one labelled a congress, and that's the biggest event here... The Pontins events have been going a bit longer, and aren't marketed as congresses, which is why I described the last one as "a step down". This is in no way a judgement on quality, just size and relative numbers of teachers, DJs, bands etc.

After all, the highest quality event might be a whole weekend with just you and one other person... :-)
 
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