It makes me very sad to have to announce that this week was our last Cuban Salsa night at Las Iguanas, Lakeside.

Due to changes made to the set-up and use of the upstairs restaurant area at Las Iguanas, it is no longer possible to fit in our regular numbers of students and classes on a Thursday night, teaching Cuban Salsa and La Rueda.

This makes me very sad, as I spent a lot of time and effort to building up the number and standard of our students to warrant bringing in a teacher like Rafael Del Busto, and you guys made me very proud with positive feedback I got from Rafael when he started teaching at Las Iguanas.

Rather than lose the night altogether, I have decided to make Thursdays the same format as Tuesdays, and teach New York Style Salsa, Cha cha cha, and Bachata.

This will mean almost starting from scratch, as many of you who enjoyed the Cuban Salsa nights are not big fans of Cross Body Salsa, and will therefore no longer turn up on a Thursday evening…

Another reason to feel sad, as I will miss many of you!

Dealing with what has heppened at Las Iguanas is fairly straight forward. What is not so easy, is figuring out how to replace our lost Cuban Salsa night, so that those of you who are passionate about Cuban Salsa & Rueda don’t lose out.

I would like to continue working with Rafael, but seeing as he has recently moved to Wimbledon it is unlikely he would want to continue making the arduous journey to & from Essex every week for much longer… so I am going to see if I can find a venue in East London that at least some of you should be able to get to.

I am also going to try and find a suitable venue in Essex that the rest of you can get to, but it will have to be another night… Probably Wednesday. However, this will not happen overnight, so I ask you to please be patient, and I will let you know as soon as I have something arranged.

In the meantime, keep dancing, and I hope to have some better news to share with you in the near future.

Stuart