After the successes of our visit to the Venezuelan Flamenco last year I was more than happy to broaden my normal narrow comedy festival horizons and head to some more Latin dancing with Havana Rumba!
It was fantastic. The music and singing was vibrant and filled with feeling, the narrator (at 70 this month) was full of character and spun the yarn well, and the dancing! It was sensual, balletic, energetic, totally amazing.
You will be tapping your feet and clapping your hands at every opportunity – and might even manage a conga at the end of the show!
This was the opening night of the show with them being delayed a couple of days coming from Cuba – this meant there were a few raw edges with lighting/microphones/etc but for some reason this added to the experience. Maybe it felt more real than a squeaky clean faultless performance?
And the Kylie bit?
When the conga and audience participation was happening at the end of the show and the Assemby @ St George’s organiser was on stage being very enthusiastic, he appeared to bring a petit pop star in a hat onto the stage who danced with everyone else. Was it Kylie? Lorraine is convinced and I might be persuaded. I’m off to hunt through the press to see if she is in Edinburgh.
Blm