Chilli Festival fun at West Dean

You can expect to be enthused by her passionate approach.

“I just live and dance,” says Crystal, a former UK Ten Dance Champion and a dancer on BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing.

“When I was young, all I ever really wanted to do was dance. My mum knew she had to put me into something because I had too much energy. She put me into ballet first of all, but that didn’t challenge me as much. I got a little bit bored.

“My mum then put me into disco and again it didn’t really gel, and then a friend said to come and join the Latin and ballroom dance. It was a bit old-fashioned then before Strictly and all that, but I went along and I just absolutely loved it.

“For me, there were just lots of different rhythms and lots of different types, different formats and different structures, how you hold your body. I just loved it. I just loved connecting to somebody else and connecting your energy with their energy and you have got like the double whammy of the two energies meeting.”

You can expect to be infected by that energy too when Crystal performs daily at the Fiesta: “I will go on stage and hopefully do my thing and I hope I will get the audience to join in. I am going to teach the crowds some salsa.

“I work closely with the creative director and for a few times through the day I will be going on to perform Latin dance – samba, cha cha, rumba, paso doble, jive and then the last one will be salsa, and that’s the one I will be getting the crowd to do.”