The dance that began as a folk tradition has exploded into the mainstream, from nightclubs to performance halls, senior centers and salsa schools. Today, histories and traditions are recounted on ...

The jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader helped lay the foundations of salsa before expanding into rock, funk, and ...

After Pupy died in June 2011, Insua’s friends helped him get a US work permit. He began teaching classes and gigging for whatever salsa, rumba or Latin dance festival or concert would come to town.

To many, Cuba is known as the isle of rum and salsa. I'm at the Havana Club for a dance lesson. Its tasting room is a reminder of the drinking establishments that made the city famous in the pre ...

“It’s street dance,” Moody said. “It’s for everybody to come out and enjoy.” Moody has been dancing Cuban salsa since 2002 and brought salsa to Athens in 2012 with her SALSAthens group.

Longtime salsa instructor Rene Gueits, born in Miami and raised in Hialeah, recalls how he helped make the dance popular in South Florida, helping take ‘it to the next level.’ ...

But what distinguishes New York salsa, or “salsa dura,” is the trombones. “If you listen to Cuban music up until the ’60s, you get trumpet solos all over the place, but no trombones ...

Salsa in the Park: Outdoors Summer Dance Party When: 1st and 3rd Mondays June – August. June 5th and 19th, July 3rd and 17th and August 7th from 6:30-9 PM. August 21st, Grand Finale Party, 6:30 ...