Discover the Bliss of Asheville's Latin Dancing: Salsa Dancing and Salsa Lessons... Tango Dancing and Lessons... and Flamenco Dancing.

Dance Calendar Showing the Wide Variety of Asheville's Dance Opportunities

DanceAsheville.com
is a wonderful website which has an ongoing frequently updated calendar showing all of the many dance venues, workshops and events in Asheville and within an easy driving distance. You'll find listings for salsa, tango, contra, waltz, swing, English Country and more!

Salsa Dancing

Salseros828
"... a Latin Dance Company... We offer Instruction and Performance in Salsa, Rueda De Casino, Cuban Folkloric Dance, Bachata, Merengue, Cha Cha Cha, Brazilian Samba, Cuban Son, Mambo and more...." Calendar

Saleros828 performance.... Maria 'Guajira' Voisin, Director... at a Christmas Party in 2007

Salseros828 of Asheville, NC Maria 'Guajira' Voisin, Director 'A Las Seis' at Lake Eden Arts Festival 2007

Z Lounge
Salsa Wednesday at 10 p.m. (lessons at 9:30). In back of Europa Cafe, 41 N Lexington in Historic Lexington Park section of Downtown Asheville.

Directory of Salsa

SalsaPower
Large international Cuban Casino-style salsa directory with up-to-date club and instructor lists, SalsaCities, events, CD and Concert Reviews, Tour Schedules, etc.

Click on each of the dozens of categories to the left to uncover what makes the Asheville area so vital, so intriguing and so, well, UTTERLY BLISSFUL!

From Rolf Potts' Vagabonding blog:

I've never been one of those uptight literary types who thinks that you have to have actually read a book in order to recommend it to others. So I feel no trepidation in suggesting Eric Weiner's new travelogue-slash-memoir The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World The premise of the book is simple but intriguing-- here is Amazon's description:

Part foreign affairs discourse, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide, The Geography of Bliss takes the reader from America to Iceland to India in search of happiness, or, in the crabby author's case, moments of "un-unhappiness." The book uses a beguiling mixture of travel, psychology, science and humor to investigate not what happiness is, but where it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Singapore benefit psychologically by having their options limited by the government? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? With engaging wit and surprising insights, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

In the imaginary Netflix queue of books-that-I'm-planning-to-read, this one has just jumped to the top. By the way, why has no one started a Netflix for books? This question, and many more, I'll leave for another day.

Tango Dancing

Joli Rouge
"... 'Tango Tuesdays' at the Joli Rouge, 130 College Street, downtown Asheville Downstairs– Non-smoking 7 pm -8 pm All Level class with Karen Jaffe , Followed by a 'Casual Milonga', social tango dancing, 8pm-10pm, (the dance party), DJ music, traditional and “nuevo” tango mix... $10. class/milonga, $5.after 8pm Come and see what it is all about! Joli Rouge requires all patrons be members or a guest of a member. $5. to join, or come as Karen’s guest for Tango Tuesdays..."

TangoAsheville
Check out their calendar for upcoming events

Flamenco Dancing in Asheville

Flamenco Soltado
"... The cuadro that is Flamenco Soltado is dedicated to performing and preserving the passionate Spanish art form of traditional tablao flamenco. Our group is founded with the clear intent of wanting to share the music we so love, in it’s purest form, yet with a freedom to express what we feel, in our own dramatically creative way. We want our style of music to be affective in touching lives in copious ways. We believe that our music is influential and therapeutic. Most of all we believe that the best in life fulfillments is found predominant in quality music that has a history of the woes and joys of life…..."