Comic, Playwright, Non-Essential Artist

Pandemic

March 2020…WTF

RIP salsa dancing.
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Maybe I am less aware and informed or just down right ignorant, but I admit to being blindsided by the COVID pandemic. I mean, sure in February I heard rumblings in my office. But at the beginning of March I had four things on my mind; work, birthday, getting my book published and travel. Let’s just say the last one was wiped clean off the plate.

For my birthday, on March 7, I entertained 25 people in my apartment. I rarely have parties, let alone on the advent of a pandemic. But it all went great and nobody got sick, as far as I know three weeks later. I enjoyed it, but deep down I was really focused on getting my book, “Salsa Chica: How I Learned To Dance Salsa And Avoid Real Life” self-published on Amazon. It took thirteen years to finish. That was hard. But then there was all this other stuff. Like copyediting. It turns out, even if you hire people to help you, you can never truly eradicate typos. If you find a typo in my book, please, do not tell me. I will cry.

Also, the cover was not the right size, and by the end, I had nothing left in me for this 13-year project. I spent March 9th crying to a God I don’t really believe in to help me finish this book. The Kindle version was done and up, but being a pre-Internet child, it would not feel real until I had the book completed. I am goal oriented. I don’t feel complete until things are done.

Finally, on March 11th, in the middle of a new project at work, I unleashed the paperback version about my journey through the world of salsa in Los Angeles. Just in time to watch the world of salsa dancing take it’s lat breath (for now). Salsa World, the culture of music, dancing, and large groups of dancers who touch each other and get in each other’s personal spaces ended the very week my book launched into the Amazon-sphere. On Sunday March 8th, I went to the 3rd Street Promenade like I did every Sunday and to have a “birthday dance.” The birthday dance is a tradition where the birthday guy or girl dances with all of their favorite partners. That was the last time I danced salsa. And while I can dance alone in my apartment, it will probably the last time I dance with a partner for a long time.

A lot of fear and sadness and uncertainty plague the world right now, as the result of an actual plague. The fact that salsa dancing is gone, is the least of many worries. The fact that this activity seems downright strange also does not necessarily impact the book’s reception. But it’s almost like the rush to finish came from this unconscious premonition or force. Like I had to release the ghost of a community and culture that might not live for a long time.

I am grateful for my health and employment and that of my family. Like almost everyone in the world, my life is different now. I look at salsa and so much of my life with a lot of gratitude that I once had so much freedom. Like that of a friend’s friend who planned to get married in Italy this summer, or anyone who wants to go out to eat, or to their job so they can pay their rent, everything changed.

Stay safe.