Dancehall experience in Sosua
Just came back from Sosua after spending Friday and Saturday there. Had a young woman from Nagua visit me for the first day / night. Like most Dominican women, she is into dancing the various Latin dances and so I took her to Classic at 11 PM - 200 pesos for me to enter. I have practiced the Bachata. A rhythm I love. And wanted to try it out with this woman, who can do salsa, bachata, merengue and what have you. I thought it would be fun on the dance floor. By the time, it was mid night the place was quite full and I realized there were many rather attractive women, none of whom I have ever laid eyes upon on the street. Clearly these women, had other modus operandi.
As the music continued, I identified one Michael Jackson number which was nice to dance to and a couple of Bachata and Merengue numbers. None of which I was familiar with. I thought, I would wait a little longer. Certainly DR has a rich musical history and they would play the local music. Was I in for a surprise? By the time I left, around 2:15 AM, the dance floor was essentially cornered by a majority of single males, from someplace else, who were expressing themselves as they probably do in NYC / Chicago clubs to the tune of what is called music there. At a decibel level that made any conversation impossible (Indeed even when we got out, we could not hear each other well for a while). The pretty women were all stranded in the background in the dark, wondering how to dance their beautiful dances with the males to the rhythm of what is to me, neither poetry nor music. I can understand the dance hall wants to cater to the paying customer base but boy, am I out of that gawd awful place that has lost the grace?
Bad dancehall experience in Sosua
To avoid Tempoecorto's bad experience, you could go to Rio Verde in Cangrejos. It is a dance-hall with a brothel attached so the clientele is mixed local couples and putas. The putas are to the Dominican taste (to put it diplomatically) but so is the music, mostly merengue, bachata and a bit of salsa. Too loud for me, but so are most places here, and the atmosphere is friendly. Ideal if you already have a chica with you as Tempo did.
I would expect there to be at least one similar place in Charamicos (which would be more handy), but in all my years here I have never seen one or read about one. Can someone help out on this?