Ye Olde town of London transforms over the coming week as many of the clubs and classes take the chance to challenge their patrons (you) to enjoy the Halloween celebrations. When preparing your costumes make sure you leave yourself enough wriggle room to dance and, from personal experience, don't use cheap face makeup unless you want to end up all streaky.

If a ghost or a vampire asks you for a dance, say yes and experience an eerily, magical minute or 5. 

Not everywhere is themed, so do check out LondonSalsa.co.uk to see which parties will be festooned with glowing pumpkins and witches around their cauldrons.

You know why skeletons don't normally take salsa lessons?
They don’t have the guts!
No body to keep fit!
No heart to get pumping! 

Please heed the ghoulish echo of my message that the events and lessons that appear in this newsletter are merely a miniscule speck of the fun that can be discovered on our site along with our spiders web of related sites, such as bachata.events, ukdance.events, londonkizomba,co,uk or UKSalsa.Dance amongst others.

You are invited to try the Global Dance Card app which can be downloaded from www.GlobalDanceCard.com - if you know of any clubs or teachers, globally, who deserve to be included, please send them to www.A2Z.Events, where they can list for free.

So we are mysteriously one day early with our newsletter this week.

Very simply the Pexava monthly Thursday Social is tonight and you deserve the opportunity to share the ambience of Conway Hall in Holborn with fellow salseros and salseras & a selection of the best DJs in town. If you are harbouring vampire tendencies this is a perfect place to sharpen you fangs as Shelley, Gil and team thoughtfully provide orange wedges. 
BTW I don't think this is fancy dress.

Putney Salsa Club on Friday always offers a bachata lesson before all level salsa classes and their social.

A quick mention for Makis and his team at the House of Mambo, who host their first ever Friday party in Watford. I popped into their regular Sunday evening (not on this week) to receive a friendly welcome, mixed ability dancers upon a perfect dance floor. 

Caramelo, in Paddington, this Saturday afternoon offer a choice of bachata or salsa intensive workshops.

Caramelo are also hosting their early evening Halloween social including student & pro performances plus DJ Julian Summers, who has a freakish method to get you dancing demonically even when some vampire has sucked that last morcel from you.

DJ Hughie is on the decks for the free Saturday salsa evening at the Theatre Royal in Stratford, to the East of town

Over in West London, Jeff normally makes a spooktacular effort to make sure those donned appropriately really enjoy the fancy dress Halloween Party Night in Hammersmith (generous prizes for the best dressed). A combination of 6 levels of class, shows and freestyle dancing till the bewitching hour of midnight.

The tricks and treats will be served up in the most delicious manner at Salsaticity's Saturday Halloween  party in Whetstone, North London, where Heather will bring the sunshine into what otherwise would be a den of skeletons, black cats and possibly even vegetarians, taking salsa, bachata and kizomba lessons before falling victim to late night Latin rhythms.

Guildford's Halloween Party includes a massive dose of live music, a big chunk of salsa, a dash of bachata, a soupcon of kizomba and merengue (£2 discount if you mention London Salsa) to create their potion intended to give you a shiveringly, horrific good night out.

Don't be terrified by this news: Tuesday nights became that bit better in central London, when Todo Latino offered a free intro to salsa before their salsa classes for all levels at Salsa Temple,

And if you ask nicely in advance, you can be on their free guest list for social dancing.

Remember please that Streetbeat have moved their Tuesday salsa/rueda lessons to Gabeto in Camden.

You don't need your skull examined to claim a first beginners lesson free in Hammersmith any Wednesday. 

It is the start of the Salsa, Mambo, Cha Cha, Semba and Kizomba monthly courses in Paddington on Wednesday, delivered by a highly experienced Caramelo team, 

Caramelo's Thursday courses also start on November 2nc, also in Paddington but in this instance in salsa, bachata and ladies styling.

If that isn't enough salsa to enthuse you to have a devilishly delicious weekend of dance, followed by blood curdling week of lessons then I urge you to pop onto the site for more inspiation. 

Dancing this week is so important as it will raise your spirits, especially as mental health issues seem to be topping the bigger agenda. 

Dance like a devil,

Leigh and the LondonSalsa team