Ett skolarbete om dansen! =)
På våra kurser har vi många studenter som läser olika program på Mittuniversitetet. Flera stycken har gjort olika skolarbeten om Tropical Sundsvall! Det tycker vi är jätteroligt!
Alina Fischer är en av våra kursdeltagare som har skrivit en jättefin artikel om Club Bachata! Den har jag nu fått mailad till mig och självklart vill jag dela med mig av den till er allihopa!
Club Bachata: Feel free while you are dancing latinamerican dances!
By Alina Fischer
Bailamos! – Let’s dance! This is what Club Bachata is all about and so everyone who loves to move to the rhythms of Latin-American music was invited to this dancing event at Casino Cosmopol in Sundsvall last Saturday.
The Carribean sounds fill the entire building, pulling people to the ground level to invade their hearts with music and the wish to dance. Guitars, bongos and claves are significant for the Spanish songs that come out of the loudspeakers. A wide area in the middle of the darkened room offers space to dance. At about 20 people with different skin colors, appearances and ages already took this opportunity and move to the rhythms in couples. The whole setting appears to occur in some South-American country. The moving group of people seems to form a unity which includes everybody no matter of gender, culture or dancing ability. “This is a different kind of party, which is not very common in Sundsvall”, Eva, a young student from Germany, says. “I go here to dance!”
This exactly seems to be the spirit which drives all of the people at this fascinating dancing event. Obviously all of them enjoy every moment and seem to be totally concentrated on dancing. Most of them dance throughout the evening without stopping for a second no matter how exhausting the previous dance was. All over the place one sees smiling faces and people filled with a certain passion for dancing. Some of them have a sensual way of dancing in couples while others practice complicated and fascinating figures and performances with their partners. Women shake their hips while men push them around in a very fast and lively way leading them to do turns and steps.
The idea to organize such an event as Club Bachata first developed two years ago. Hector Oviedo Abreu and Lina Törnqvist, instructors at the dancing school Tropical Sundsvall, already had invested much effort in the dancing scene in Sundsvall. Still, the city lacked an event that could act as a gathering place for all dancers.
“We didn’t have Latinomusic to go out to dance,” Törnqvist explained.
So the goal was to, “create a place where people can meet and dance.” As a result, Törnqvist and Abreu established “Club Bachata”. The name is derived from the Latin-American sensual couples-dance Bachata. Nevertheless, the DJ also plays music for Salsa, Merengue and Reggaetton, all of which are also latinamerican dances. The Casino Cosmopol supports the event by offering room for all enthusiastic dancers. Since its première in January of 2010, the event has been carried out monthly on Saturdays. Törnqvist identifies several reasons that pull people to this event: “It is something different, Latino-music is exotic.” Furthermore she states that Swedes desperately need a place where they can recover from the cold winters. They “want to feel like in Latino-America”.
Club Bachata offers all of this to the visitors. At the event one recognizes that the dancers feel happy and forget about their stressful, structured day. The people are filled with an energy that encourages them to move until the music ends. This is also what Eva experienced: “You feel comfortable when you dance here.”
Besides this dancing experience, Abreu and Törnqvist gave a short lesson for Bachata on stage last Saturday in order to give each visitor the opportunity to dance with the others. Most of the visitors formed themselves up in front of the stage and imitated the moves both instructors performed. Obviously all of them had much fun while learning new steps. They were laughing and talking. After this short session even more dancers joint in to the moving people on the floor. To support the fun factor of the event Abreu always presents the latest music in Latino-American genres.
The next Club Bachata takes place on Saturday, 24th of March.
For further information visit: http://www.tropicalsundsvall.se/
Thank you so much for your great article Alina! =)
Stor Kram!
