Quieres bailar?

On Friday 11th November our students and I had a Latin-American dance class with a Brazilian instructor.

We took the bus and went to a gym on the Aventine Hill. Since we arrived early we had a walk around the beautiful Aventine Hill, a very peaceful place compared to the rest of the city centre, and reached the Giardino degli Aranci (Orange Garden) which offers an amazing view over Trastevere and the dome of St. Peter’s.

Then we came back to the gym and met Reyna, the Brazilian instructor, who explained us how the class was structured: we were going to practice different kinds of dance: zumba, merengue, burlesque and group dance that are well-known in Italy. Then he told us that we had not to think about our movements, it didn’t matter if we made mistakes: we just had to enjoy ourselves!

We started with some warm-up exercises to loosen up our muscles and then we began to dance. We danced with many different songs, among them: the well-known “Waka-Waka” by Shakira; “Danza Kuduro”, the summer hit in Italy; “El Pam Pam”, a group dance; “The Vampire Dance”, a typical dance of Brazilian Carnival. We ended with a burlesque dance, Reyna gave us some colorful feather boas and told us to free ourselves and not to feel inhibited, so he turned off the light and we danced feeling less embarrassed.

We spent a very pleasant time and had a lot of fun, the instructor was very nice and we

hope to have another Latin-American dance class again very soon!!!