Salsa Etc

The Rhythm Method is a memoir but also an answer to the question of why the UK has become so obsessed with this dance which is seemingly alien to our natural rythm.

It is partly journalistic investigation, but also personal recollection, examining the contrast between his very British experiences of salsa and those of his Colombian wife, whose parents and grandparents were magical on the dance floor.

She was dancing before she learned to speak, too young for personal choice to come into it.

Salsa was part of her very identity, while, for Matt, it was something you trained your body to perform.

Tracing the routes of the music and dance back to Colombia and following it to New York and eventually the UK, The Rythm Method is an exploration of this exotic dance and our fascination with it.