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"Picture this: You hustle through freezing winds from your car to the doorway of the Sangria Sky Club in Royal Oak. You shake off layers of coats, sweaters, boots, and scarves, then grab a colorful cocktail as the sound of salsa music hits your ear. Suddenly the dance floor is filled with gorgeous, lithe dancers (who might not actually be gorgeous and lithe in real life) gracefully step-step-twirling their way around you. You'd love to join this momentary vacation from frigid Michigan reality, but don't know your clave from your conga.

Don't get your pantalones in a bunch: Metro Detroit is a veritable mecca of salsa resources, so that no matter your level of skill or interest, there is ample opportunity for you to let your inner salsero shine. "

Read the whole article at: http://www.metromodemedia.com/features/salsadetroit0147.aspx

Huge thanks goes out to Nicole Rupersburg for writing this article!

Creating a Movement - YA Salsa in the News!

Last Updated January 6th, 2008 by Geo-

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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