MONDAY, June 30th
On a recent trip to the salsa club, we met this guy who is actually pretty decent as a casino-style salsa dancer. He's local and learns just from whatever instructors come through and give workshops now and then. Someone else told me he knows how to call a rueda, but he says he doesn't really know more than one or two calls and he seems shy to try. He talks with me a little about teaching. We've had lots of requests already, but we can't legally. Even George can't legally, unless we're doing it for free. We've considered that a lot too, but there are other issues with free classes. One issue is, it's a lot of work to maintain a class, and will we be willing to fulfill the commitment and keep drumming up interest if there is no money in it? Also, we've offered free classes before. What we've found is people are suspicious of free things (although that could be an American thing, who knows) and there is no incentive to keep coming every week if there is no money being paid. Carmen suggests that we barter for nanny services by having the class pay for a nanny. I think it's a great idea but the logistics of that could feel a little too sneaky for me.
So on Monday George receives an email from this same guy from salsa and he asks George about teaching. Before George can respond, one of the other salsa people is chatting with him on Facebook saying that they heard we were going to start teaching. That same person chats with me and says they hear that we will teach on Sunday nights at this one place. Unbelievable! They even have the time and place picked out! I say we probably won't teach, she says she understands, but if we did, how much would we charge? Ha! Some of the latin crowd are eager for our lessons too. And people from Babywearing are also intrigued.
It would be nice to have some other people to dance with (if we taught them our style), but is it a good idea to do this illegally in Malaysia? Most people seem to think it's silly to be concerned about it. What do you think?
1 comment:
I'm sure there are ways around the legal side of it, but it depends whether you are comfortable with doing it. I think Carmen's idea would work, or one thing I've seen for slightly dubious bars before is that you buy tickets, which are then exchanged for drinks - could you do something similar to that?
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