OF ALL THE things I thought I might like about salsa — and I liked many things — holding hands with a stranger while learning new dance steps together was not one of them. I thought I might hate that.

Donald Saldana (in white) teaches a basic salsa step on a makeshift dance floor in Dolores Park. Sign up below to get Mission Local’s free newsletter, a daily digest of news you won’t find elsewhere.

Dance instructor Rachel Chinn and her co-instructor Dan Carro dance on Wednesday at Oeno. The pair will be giving free salsa lessons to start an evening of Latin music on Fridays at the club. The ...

Activity: Ever been a wallflower at a club or a wedding, wishing you had the gumption and the groove to light up the dance floor? Salsa lessons may be your saving grace. The American School of Modern ...

Agnes Black, a social worker in the Hartford schools, learned something newthis summer because two of her friends are avid salsa dancers. “I felt very self-conscious and I wouldn’t get on the floor ...

On El Rumbiadero Stage at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival, in front of over 200 spectators and eager participants, stood Luz Aydé Moncayo Giraldo and Deyvi Johan Zúñiga Jiménez. Wearing outfits ...