Besame Muchos Mambalsa at Kings Cross Station

Besame Muchos Mambalsa at Kings Cross Station

One of my highlights of this year so far was a beautiful dance I had with Miranda Bild in Kings Cross Station.

We danced to the beautiful bolero Besame Mucho is sung by Fabian Velez accompanied by my wife Felicity Sadler on violin. Their concert at the Venezuelan Embassy in 2010 was in part the inspiration for me to create Mambalsa, a dance where you can dance slow and romantically as well as fast and funky.

I believe that when you dance a slow dance, a magic bubble is created around you. People glance but seldom intrude.
To test this we danced Mambalsa to Besame Mucho at London's Kings Cross station. We filmed for twenty minutes with no permits and were not interrupted once :-)
 

We filmed other scenes to create a plot (which I will get around to editing some day!)... They met one last time. Chatted and had fun at a cafe where they danced by the tables. They said their goodbyes outside the station and she walks away. After a few moments of loneliness he impulsively follows her in the station and they dance one last time. .... 

The dance is an analogy for a kiss or is a kiss an analogy for a dance?

I always have been a little over cautious of authority and tend to use it as an excuse not to try things. This clip broke through that fear for me so I've added it to the eXtream Mambalsa playlist.

enjoy. Alastair

Mambalsa is the new partner dance that I created in 2014. Info and on-line tutorial at mambalsa.com
It works to any 4:4 time music from very fast rock and pop down to the slowest boleros.
Twitter @mambalsa facebook group Mambalsa.
I host popup fash mob classes at meetup.com/mambalsa