Salsa dance is everything I am and everything I am not. Salsa is passionate, sensuous, rhythmic, social, creative, flirtatious and intimate. Somewhere inside me, I feel all these things, like quiet, ...

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.

Last week, a colleague and I had the chance for a rare social evening out together. As we were brainstorming what we were going to do, we came across a salsa club that offered two sets of salsa ...