College to Host Speaker for Hispanic Heritage Month

Westminster College's Office of Diversity Services will host Latina dancer Eileen Torres for a lecture and salsa dance demonstration Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 6:30 p.m. in the Berlin Student Lounge of the McKelvey Campus Center.

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 several years she provided group and private instruction for students in Washington, D.C.  She taught 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.

Contact Jeannette Hubbard, director of diversity services, at (724) 946-7179 or email for additional information.

Eileen Torres