The Six Sigma Mambo

摘要

South Beach, Miami, starts to come alive about midnight. As I travel from club to club, I am mesmerized by the dancing. I have a desire to participate, but I don't know how to dance. After a few hours of watching, I get up the courage to ask someone what type of dance the people are doing. "The cumbia, mambo, cha-cha. You know, salsa." I decide I need to get some lessons before I try it. The music is the same, but it sounds different coming from the sterile class studio. The instructor announces, "Men, start on the right, women on the left. 1-2-3-4-5-6-7-8, 1-2-3-4…" A few months and a few dollars later I feel like the Mambo King and head back to South Beach. By the next evening I will be known up and down the Florida coast.