When I first heard bachata at a salsa club a couple of years ago, I was puzzled. Salsa DJs regularly slipped salsa’s tropical cousins cha cha and merengue into the mix, but this Dominican sound was something I’d never heard before. I quickly scooted off the floor when a bachata song came on because I [...]

When I first saw the videos of the dance phenomenon known as silent disco, I was tickled beyond belief. It’s a quirky concept: instead of having a dance party with giant speakers to amplify the sound for the crowd, revelers tune into a DJ broadcast on wireless headphones. So when people walk by and stumble [...]

Larry King, the former host of CNN’s “Larry King Live,” once tried to learn some dance moves from Janet Jackson on his show. Needless to say, this didn’t go very well – he wasn’t exactly up for her urban/sexy brand of choreography! But right at the end of the segment, Janet grabbed him for a [...]