Husband and wife dance instructors, Jennifer, left, and Miguel Aguirre, right, take their moves to the dance floor at Stevens Steak and Seafood House. (Emil Ravelo / For The Times) In the ...

Jennifer Samaniego, 23, grew tired of watching from the sidelines as her boyfriend, who's of Puerto Rican descent, dances salsa, a Latin genre that developed in New York from Spanish Caribbean rhythms ...

Besides the humidity, the evening in Little Haiti was picturesque. Palm trees swayed, the sun set turned the sky into cotton-candy colors and hundreds of twentysomethings were gathered wearing ...