Westminster College's Office of Diversity Services will host Latina dancer Eileen Torres for a lecture and salsa dance demonstration Tuesday, Sept. 25, at 7 p.m. in Orr Auditorium.

The event, which is free and open to the public, is in observance of National Hispanic Heritage Month.

Torres has been dancing since she learned the rhumba from her father at age five. She co-founded the first Ballet Folklorico at the University of Colorado while she was a student there. She graduated with a minor in dance and became an instructor and choreographer for the youth troupe Alma de Mexico. She successfully auditioned for The National Chicano Dance Theater based in Denver and toured with the company for two years. For the past four years she has provided group and private instruction for students in Washington, D.C. She teaches at the Duke Ellington School for the Arts and has lectured on Salsa in many venues, including the Kennedy Center, the Bacardi Salsa Congress in Puerto Rico, the European Salsa Festival in The Netherlands, and the Washington, D.C. Salsa Festival.

Torres is president of Salsation Productions and publisher of Salsamundo.com, a Web site dedicated to the promotion and appreciation of salsa music. She is a feature writer for Latin Vibes magazine and has had articles published in Latina Style and Latin Beat magazines.

Contact Jeannette Hubbard, director of diversity services, at (724) 946-7179 or e-mail hubbarj@westminster.edu for additional information.

Dancer Eileen Torres