Some people dance for joy, some for entertainment, while others dance for pleasure and inspiration.
On February 23 from 7-10 p.m., Art Kalmer, a professional ballroom dance instructor, will be dancing for all of those reasons and more. Kalmer, owner of Art Kalmer's Dance Studio located in the Fir Hill Plaza on Forge Street, will be holding a West African Dance class featuring the dance High Life. The dance was brought to England in the 1920's and '30s, and came to New York in the '60s. Kalmer stated that Africans have always made music out of anything, from bottles and gourds, to pieces of metal and sticks. Even without instruments Africans made music with bangles hanging from their arms and bells dangling from their ankles.