Perrear hasta el piso or How to Dance Reggaetón in Germany

_Introduction: We Are Going to La Casa del Perreo Before any farra [Spanish for ‘party’], I avoid listening to the music that will be played that night. Like a cabala [rituals and superstitions for good luck], I feel it is better to listen later. Los temas, the song’s hits, are to be enjoyed at the momento and not before. Instead, on the night of the party, I was listening to a podcast. The time was 21:04 and the train from Giessen to Frankfurt departed with a ten-minute delay. After fifteen minutes, I heard someone speaking Spanish. I turned to my left. A woman appeared to be talking on the phone. I could not identify her accent, but I was sure she was Latina. She ended the call and returned to her seat. She might be going to the farra, I thought. The party tonight would be my second time in La Casa del Perreo, a Latin event created by a community of DJs (Mexicans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Ecuadorians, Peruvians, sometimes German DJs are invited). I have been following them for two years before I came to Germany. My first time at this farra was in winter, in early January. It was my first party after I arrived in Germany, and after seven months without celebrations. Then I wanted to dance. I was excited to see how Latin American people dance far from home, in the German winter. Inside, a crowd contrasted with the empty streets. Now, summer had come, and I had high expectations. I noticed how people change in summer. They seem more free and relaxed to me. What is more, the warm weather reminds me of the tropical mode of the Latin American Caribbean. The event was promoted on the collective’s social media as the best Latin party in the country, and hundreds of comments on Instagram concurred with this statement. [1] Fig. 1: Instagram post of an event in Munich, February 26, 2026, @lacasadelperreo.eu, © La Casa del Perreo The venue, Fortuna Irgendwo, is situated in the heart of Frankfurt Ostend. The building used to be a boiler house built in 1906. From 1999 to 2013, it was the prestigious King Kamehameha Club, which won several awards in its heyday, such as “Bar of the Year.” After the pandemic, this venue became a disco. Instead of live music, it started to host various music events throughout the year,…