Julissa Alvarado, a dance lover who recently moved from New York to West Haven, found a new spot to groove at Salsa in Ninth Square, a bimonthly open-to-all dance party at the Orange Street Promenade.

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.

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 ...

Hornak started salsa dancing in 2001, just a few weeks after deciding to quit her job as a District Attorney and write full time. During the early stages of her freelance career, she was published by ...

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 ...