Salsa Date Night - April 23rd, 2022
Oriental Lodge hosted a couples night dinner with Salsa lessons. Brother Richard Council is a professional dance instructor and led the effort to teach a basic lesson on the Salsa style of dancing. A surf and turf dinner was followed by an hour and a half of dance instruction.
Richard Council began dancing tango in 2001 and has since taught and performed on stage and television throughout the United States and abroad. In 2003 he, with partner Colette Hebert, won the US IDO Argentine Tango Championships in Miami, Florida. They were finalists in the Tango Salon division and semi-finalists in the Stage Performance division of the World Championships held in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2005. He has been an invited performer on the Susana Gimenez Show in Argentina, the Tango Libertad Festival in Japan and many milongas and theaters in those countries as well as all over the United States. He has taught and performed at the Portland Tango festivals a number of times. In addition to performing with Hebert in the short film "The Heart of Tango" he has also had the pleasure to share the stage with company members of Tango X 2, Forever Tango, Tango Fire, Tango Argentino and more.
More information about Brother Richard Council’s dance instruction can be found on his website: