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.

STUTTGART, Germany -- As the business day winds down at the USO front desk, Laura Keadle is about to heat things up in the lounge. Keadle, a volunteer club salsa instructor, is demonstrating what she ...

Mimicking the Latin music of the night, Havana Night's Latin Dance Party at Johnston's Ballybay Pub started slowly, but crescendoed into a mass of pulsating beats and bodies on a recent Friday night.