LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- At Dr. Owen Knox Elementary in Los Angeles, salsa is in full swing with the "Conga Kids" program. "You learn a lot of new dances and you get a lot of exercise," said fifth-grader ...

8:49 a.m. March 29, 2024: A previous version of this story said that singer-songwriter Blessd performed at the event. He did not. The article also said that the Conga Kids program has served 50,000 ...

Life is a bit like dance — you just gotta keep moving your feet, and keep the beat best you can, and if you go a little off, hey, that’s OK. Get moving again. Youngsters from all over Southern ...

Kids and conga were right on beat Wednesday in Los Angeles. The Conga Kids spring Dance Championship moved its way through downtown’s Microsoft Square, where Conga Kids danced away using their ...

Brad Gluckstein, center rear, with “So You Think You Can Dance” competitors Comfort Fedoke and Paul Karmiryan to his left, poses last fall during the Conga Kids competition at Esteban Torres High ...

On a recent Monday morning, as most fifth graders were studying math and English, a group of 10- and 11-year-olds at Knox Elementary School in South L.A. were learning something else: how to train and ...

Brad Gluckstein, owner of downtown Los Angeles music venue the Conga Room, estimates that 20 years down the road, the average fifth grader will remember approximately four things from that fleeting ...