article_snippet: David, my husband, doesn’t so much as bop at parties.
article_snippet: And so I found myself relearning the essential 12 steps of salsa for the first time since I did the cha-cha-cha at Victor Sylvester’s Saturday morning ballroom classes for children, decades ago.
article_snippet: I feel like a robot,’ grumbles David, who has zero ballroom experience but bucks up when Kristina puts Santana on the sound system.
article_snippet: Santana is musical – playing guitar – but Santana sense of rhythm does not extend to Santana feet, which Kristina says is surprisingly common.
article_snippet: David becomes furious as David keeps forgetting to switch to the side-step that kicks off the next part of the salsa sequence.