Brad Gluckstein, center rear, with “So You Think You Can Dance” competitors Comfort Fedoke and Paul Karmiryan to his left, poses last fall during the Conga Kids competition at Esteban Torres High ...
Brad Gluckstein, owner of downtown Los Angeles music venue the Conga Room, estimates that 20 years down the road, the average fifth grader will remember approximately four things from that fleeting ...
On a recent Monday morning, as most fifth graders were studying math and English, a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Knox Elementary School in South L.A. were learning something else: how to train and ...
As he stood in front of a TV set on a recent afternoon, Aiden Alvarez made a few steps to the right, then to the left, spinning in circles and dancing across his living room. For a few minutes, ...
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...
Maria Nava took a deep breath and looked at her partner one last time before stepping onto the dance floor. “Remember,” she told him. “Slow down.” “OK,” Eugene Figueroa said. Moments later, the crowd ...
WOODLAND HILLS>> Taye Sangkhae and Vanessa Freigher may have been the shortest dance pair rehearsing at their school Tuesday for the Conga Kids Dance Championship at L.A. Live on Wednesday. But these ...
Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...