If only it were that easy. Help is available. Habana Village, a club, restaurant, and cigar bar in DC's Adams Morgan, offers salsa lessons on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings. Saturday is tango night.
Cushions are understated florals in maroons, tans, yellows, and peaches.
Ocher walls, straw baskets, cigar boxes, and more plants than you usually find in a bar lend some authenticity. Back upstairs, where the dancing is, has a grittier feel. The walls are covered in wooden planks with graffiti all over them. The decor is modeled after a famous bar in Cuba. It must be that Latin sense of time, because when the lesson ends two hours later, at least 60 people have arrived, and the room is packed.