Dimitri Nina Well thank you so much for your reply I hoped you would About six months ago I noticed how badly ballroom dancing in general was being treated on WP and decided to do something about it I had been taught dancing by someone who had taken tuition in the latin dances from Pierre Lavelle so I knew their names from being a teenager in the 1950s I wish now I had taken the trouble to meet them but I didn t Since I m something of an expert on Cuban music I decided to start with the group of dancers who started LA dancing in England from where it has spread all over the world I soon discovered the lack of reliable reference sources was the main problem I kept seeing references to Pierre but it was ages before I had enough to put up the page on WP I still don t have enough for Lavelle With difficult cases I start a Word file offline Anything on WP gets copied by bots and plagiarised widely Even these personal pages I ve got copies of all the books written about LA dances at that time including both Dimitri s books and Pierre s book I don t know where you are of course but if you are somewhere in England we might arrange to meet and you could have a look at the books It sounds as though you don t have a copy of his first book I ve tried to interview all the survivors from that time So far I ve only found two I d certainly like to meet your father if he was willing He s bound to have lots of things tucked away at the back of his mind which might help us And I ll answer more fully about myself but not on WP for reason given above Now I m going to let you have my e mail address If you wish you could send me an e mail which would automatically give me yours Then once you know your e mail has worked please wipe off my e address from this page after you ve stored it preferably on a private machine rather than one available for general use open machines without good security get scanned regularly Here goes inmanross hotmail com Regards