What sets ballroom dance apart is that it’s always danced with a partner — which is where the term “Pro-Am” comes in, meaning a professional dancer paired with an amateur dancer.

Three days a week, Edward Wan, of Bethesda, Maryland, steals away to a ballroom dance studio so he can glide across the floor in the company of older Chinese immigrants like him.

In ballroom dancing, the leader generally starts with their right hand on the lower back of the follower, and holds the follower's right hand in their left hand in order to guide the dance.

A gunman attacked a ballroom dance studio in Monterey Park. Eleven people were killed, devastating a community of older ballroom dancers, many of whom are from Taiwan, China, Thailand and Vietnam.

“In Asia, ballroom is an incredibly popular sport and social dance,” said Marisa Hamamoto, a professional ballroom and salsa dancer in L.A. who had been to Star on occasion.

Ageless World of Dance Executive Director Lon Wilkinson and 9-year-old dance partner Catalina Percy show off some of their ballroom dance moves. “This is not my first rodeo,” she said, smiling.

Mymy Nhan was a regular at the Star Ballroom for more than a decade, choosing the Los Angeles-area dance hall popular with older Asian Americans as the place to “start the year fresh” with Lunar New ...

The Willowbrook Ballroom, with its 5,400 square feet of dance floor, was the top choice for ballroom dance aficionados on Dec. 19, 1981, in Willow Springs, Illinois.

The tour will feature multi-genre, international ballroom dance, with events that offer innovative dance training and competition programs led by experienced dancers and choreographers.

No matter how old we are, the discomfort of learning to do basic dance steps with strangers is one way to become a kinder person. Especially to your spouse, writes Molly M. Schpero.