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Cuban Gigolos Who've Destroyed The Global Dance Scene!.

by Donna
(Toronto)

Don't get me wrong I love salsa. I've been dancing it for years.

I remember the joy of learning the intricasies of my first salsa steps on a trip in my teens to Santiago 10 years ago. And no I was not taught by a gigolo. I am self taught. Dance has always come naturally to me, as natural as breathing.

Fifteen years ago you could find some great dance venues in the large and small cities of the world.

New York, London, Toronto had some fantastic salsa venues, from the humble church hall, to a great 50's art deco ballroom you could pay the nominal $5 or so and dance the night away either to a live band or a great salsa D.J.

I met my ex boyfriend at one such dancehall (gigolo -free)

He was a hardworking Latino (not Cuban ) who woke at 5am to work three jobs to pay for his medical school studies.

He was not afraid to get out of bed at dawn, to clean floors, wait tables, and clean banks before going to College.

Back then you could dance the night away with friends and family to some great tunes, uninterrupted by some hustler in a white suit with more gold chains and bling than the Lord Mayor or P.Diddy.

It seems the days of the salsa dance hall are long gone.

The arrival of the Cuban Gigolo to Canada and the UK has ensured that these days unless you pay for lessons you are not allowed to dance.

It works like this.

The hustler/gigolo meets the plain much older Canadian/Brit. at the tourist resorts.

He targets her, charms her and she purchases him. No it sure as hell is not love, it's a transaction!.

Yes, pays a fortune to import this hustler to Canada or Europe.

He is always unskilled and work shy. And oozes charm.

The Cuban Govt. is very very happy to offload him.
He's a burden on their welfare state.

The plain older woman soon susses him for the lazy parasite lout that he is and hassles him to get a job.

Since he's unskilled, he decides that he will become a 'Salsa Teacher'. Or better still a 'D.J'.

Every workshy loser who leaves Cuba eventually becomes a 'D.J.' or 'Salsa Teacher'. They have no skills to speak of other than charming older women in the hope of a passport out of poverty.

Sadly for those of use who do not want to set sight on these parasites who now want to charge us $20 to enter a dance hall.

It's extortion when you know you can dance better than them.

They take up the work because it's easy money and the older plain wife is by now sick of them and given them their marching orders as he has no doubt brought home more than a bunch of flowers from all of his many dalliances with young women fooled by the fake charm and sense of 'exotic'.

Meanwhile our dancehalls have been monopolised by these idiots who are a liabilty to any country.

Does the world really need more Salsa Classes?

Is there anyone left in the world who has bot been taught how to salsa?.
"Un Dos Tres" "Beginners" "Intermediate" "Advanced" What a joke and how they spin it out for the Bridget Jones of this world and their ugly dull dance partners from the accounts dept!.

Kick these gigolos back to Cuba and give us back our dance halls I say!!.

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Sep 05, 2011
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black men who only dance with white women
by: Anonymous

Thanks for this article, it's so refreshing and reassuring to read. I live in London and have been taking salsa classes since the beginning of the year at a well known dance institution. Before this I had always loved the music and danced to it naturally. As a person of African origin I have grown up in a culture where music and dance are not just about having fun and expressing yourself, but about spirituality, a celebration of new life, the passing of a loved one, the union of a man and a woman and all the other important stages that we pass through as part of our human development.

I decided to take classes because I just wanted to improve my technique and gain a bit more confidence on the dancefloor. However, although I love the music, especially that old salsa music that speaks about social injustice, political resistence against racism and prejudice and the celebration of black people and black women, i have come to realise that in the west the Salsa scene is full of arrogance and self hating racists. In particular black men who as you say will go out of their way to dance with a bouncing blonde wearing a mini skirt up to her behind or any other plain woman of caucasion descent rather than any of their beautiful black sisters. My last experience was quite disheartening, especially as it seemed that the only men that would ask me to dance were the white, asian, arab or mestizo latino guys. The black guys just refused to ask any sister in the room for a dance.

As you said the salsa scene does seem very learned and pretensious and not at all like what I saw and experienced when I lived in South America. It seems to be all about learned ball room style moves and has become overtly sexualised with white women waving their hair back and forth like nutters - which to me makes the whole thing seems rather messy. However, this is what seems to define the London Salsa scene.

Yes, the Cuban gigolos in the house always make me cringe when I see them with their plain janes that could be their grandmothers, but it also seems that black british men of African and caribbean origin are happily following this trend. I came home that night feeling like there is so much self hate and ignorance in our communities which to me is a truly tragic state of affairs.

I'm not sure what to do about it other than write about it and I'm considering surveying Salsa clubs in London and interviewing these guys to try to understand their motives.

Jun 26, 2010
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I Know One Such Scammer!
by: Emily

I am so happy that someone has finally been honest about the Cuban scammer and tricksters who trick con and decieve women so they can leave Cuba.

I met a scammer in a Salsa club in London. I too love dancing salsa but the only men you meet in those clubs are scammers who have used older women to buy them out of Cuba.

This small man was Afro Cuban man from Santiago di Cuba, small and very arrogant.

He told me he was a D.J. and musician.

We went out for a few weeks, he never had any money. Always expected me to pay.

One night a very angry woman walked over to us in a club. She was mid fifties, small grey, not at all pretty, and very angry!!.

It was his wife!!.

Her name was Susan and apparently she had brought him over from Santiago ten years before,

Purchased him for a lot of money.

They had a daughter. She owned a house and was She worked at Elle in London and she was furious with this small pathetic little man.

Guess what, She's welcome to him he is a leech. Florian or Lorian is the name of this jerk.

He tried to run away, told me it was some mad jealous woman who was obsessed with him.

I discovered it was not.

She was his wife, foolish?, yes, stupid? yes, much much older?, yes.

She was welcome to him. He is a creep.

Ladies be aware of the Cuban scammer!!.

They really are not worth it!!.

Jun 26, 2010
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So True Estelle!
by: Bill

I agree with Estelle, it's a myth that all Cuban men are Patrick Swayze on the dance floor.

Not all are.If you get out into the countryside and meet real Cubans you'll find that many can have two left feet when it comes to salsa or mambo steps, and are not as interested in dance as the playboys who work in the tourist resorts.

What women do not seem to understand is that these players give up great jobs in science, engineering, accounting to work as a waiter or water sports gigolo in a tourist hotel.

When the women fork out thousands to bring them to their country they soon realise what a liabilty some of them are.

Just read through the pages on here.

One women on here went so far as to set up a dance school for her casanova in Canada - 'Salsa Fiesta' she calls it.

She writes that she spent ten years looking for 'Mr. Right' in Havana.

She says she spent a helluva lot of money in the process and got through a lot of men!.

No doubt he has access now to lots of slimmer younger more attractive women on the dance floor of the school she set up for him.

What motivates a woman to go to this expense and these lengths to acommodate a gigolo? Will they never learn?.

These are the kind of men being described in this thread. The type who have been purchased by an older plain woman who thinks she has found the love of her life.

Do these women honestly think that a young handsome fit man like they purchased would actually fall in love with a fat fifty something woman ?

If they believe that then they need help!.

Many of them seek that help after the horse has bolted so to speak.

When he has bolted out the door as soon as his permanent visa papers drop on the mat.

Jun 25, 2010
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Anonymous It's a Myth That All Cuban Dance Well
by: Estelle

To Anonymous.

It's a myth that all Cubans are great dancers or even great lovers.

They're not!!

It's actually a racist stereotype to classify all Cuban or Latins as you put it, as 'excellent salsa dancers'.

They are not!.

But it's the misguided non too intellgent women who flock to Cuban resorts, who believe that myth, who are the very ones who are headed for disaster, duped, and as soon as they have exported the gigolo at great expense to Canada and seen what a lousy dancer he is and an even worse provider.

So don't believe the hype, or the myths for that matter.

Jun 25, 2010
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???
by: Anonymous

dont be so negative get over yourselves...they are the latinos and the salsa dancers ....

Jun 25, 2010
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So True Donna!
by: Alice

A great post which I agree with entirely.

Donna, I also love to dance salsa, but it is impossible to find a dance hall that has not been taken over by these hustlers who sell classes.

Each class can cost as much as $25 to $25 for instruction we neither need nor want. And most of the hustlers posing as 'teachers' are not really that good at dancing.

You know they are really theere to meet women and make money.

You cannot find a community hall, church hall, dancehall these days that has not been taken over by some Cuban hustler who thinks he is Patrick Swayze in 'Dirty Dancing' and is cleaning up financially in the process.

I also remember not so long ago, when you could find a fantastic dance hall on a Saturday night, where you went with a group of friends for a great night of salsa dancing.

Sadly those days are no more.

With the current trend of the older chubby but solvent Canadian women going to Cuba on those cheap package holidays and purchasing a Cuban playboy gigolo at a resort, who has no desire to get a proper job, but instead sets up 'dance classes' in our dance halls as a means to earning a buck and meeting younger women, it seems the days of the great dance locations and salsa nights are a thing of the past.

And that is sad.

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