Student Spotlight:

Sahelit Bahiru

Salsa Student

Sahelit joined salsa lessons in Los Angeles with a simple goal: "to get movin’!" She embraces mistakes as part of the process, focusing on learning and progressing with each step. Restaurants that unexpectedly play salsa music have been her unique and fun practice venues.

If she could choose any celebrity dance partner, Brad Pitt would be her pick—because, as she says, "that man is fine." Her advice for anyone thinking about trying salsa? "Do it!"

Sahelit shares her dance journey through the following interview questions.

1) What inspired you to take salsa lessons here in Los Angeles?

To get movin'!

2) How do you deal with mistakes while learning to dance salsa?

It's part of the learning process. I try to learn and move on.

3) What’s a time you found yourself unexpectedly dancing salsa in a unique or unusual place. Where were you, and how did it go down?

Restaurants that play salsa music!

4) If you could invite any celebrity, alive or fictional, to join you for a night of salsa dancing in Los Angeles, who would it be and why?

Brad Pitt because that man is fine.

5) What advice would you offer to someone considering taking salsa lessons?

Do it!