Every week for much of the year; millions of Brits view and vote on Strictly Come Dancing; with the salsa being one of the most popular dances. Dark; enticing Afro-Caribbean rhythms; moving bodies gently interlaced; responding to the music: at first sight; salsa dancing seems to recover something our regimented British lives suppress. For not much more than a fiver; salsa can reconnect us with our bodies. So we seem to think: with perhaps a million Britons taking a class every week; salsa is statistically our national dance.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 Shouldnt explores how the worlds most popular dance went global; how it reached the UK and whether the saucy; salacious salsa of our national fantasy life is really as exotic as we like to think.
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