Merenge!

Browsing around YouTube this morning on my mother's computer. Looking at various Latin-dance lessons. Came across some Merenge stuff for which the basic-step looks dirt simple! Thought of Pam while watching it, and thinking how much we're both looking forward to getting some lessons down and doing some fun dancing together once were done with all the medical junk.

It's just a simple left-right step, over and over again. No pauses, no extra repeat stepping. It's like the shuffling dance I saw once at a Haitian wedding I went to years ago. At that time, I didn't understand and couldn't quite get it. But now I think that must have been some form of Merenge.

With the stuff I've learned from all the Mambo classes I've taken, some of the added fun-stuff - turns, swings, shifts in directions - looks pretty easy to add in.

I emailed a YouTube video to Pam that I thought was pretty good in it's lesson-combo: basic step, simple direction-changes, simple turns, etc. I think she'll get a kick out of it!