Creating a Movement - YA Salsa in the News!
Posted January 6th, 2008 by Geo-
Photo by Kenneth White
Article published Jan 6, 2008
SALSA GURUS SHARE DANCE, FRIENDSHIP, ENERGY
By Stacy Jenkins
STAFF WRITER Eccentric/Observer
A dozen or so inches of snow, icy roads and frigid temperatures set the scene for a smokin' hot evening of salsa dancing.
Despite the early December snow storm, the self-proclaimed salsa junkies took to the wooden dance floor at the American Legion Post 346 in Farmington. The group of about 150 on that night wouldn't miss the monthly YA Salsa Social.
The music and the dancing attract a mix of people from all ethnic backgrounds and people from their teens to their 70s and every age in between.
"The music, the people, it's inter-generational and it's international," said Suzanne Geldys, of Dearborn Heights, who is a dance instructor at Eastern Michigan University. "It's great fun."
Read the whole article on hometownlife.com
Photo by Kenneth White
SALSA GURUS SHARE DANCE, FRIENDSHIP, ENERGY
By Stacy Jenkins
STAFF WRITER Eccentric/Observer
A dozen or so inches of snow, icy roads and frigid temperatures set the scene for a smokin' hot evening of salsa dancing.
Despite the early December snow storm, the self-proclaimed salsa junkies took to the wooden dance floor at the American Legion Post 346 in Farmington. The group of about 150 on that night wouldn't miss the monthly YA Salsa Social.
The music and the dancing attract a mix of people from all ethnic backgrounds and people from their teens to their 70s and every age in between.
"The music, the people, it's inter-generational and it's international," said Suzanne Geldys, of Dearborn Heights, who is a dance instructor at Eastern Michigan University. "It's great fun."
Read the whole article on hometownlife.com
Yaya!!
Tha'ts what I'm talkin' about!!
Judging from all the new faces...
Judging from all the new faces, it seems like the article was viewed by a lot of people. If the yesterdays turnout was like that every social we would need a bigger place!
Not only great turnout...
Like you are saying, there was not only a great turnout, but it looked like 50% new faces or at least people who had not been out in quite a while. You guys (the people running the whole show) did a great job of keeping the chaos under control!
Geo-
Front Page News!
The article help bring awareness of the social to a lot of new people, even more then I thought it would. And now it know why... It was on the Front Page! I didn't realize that before until Ken found a paper and told me about it. Pretty cool eh??