Sylvia White

Hi I am Sylvia and I was born and raised in England. Started doing acrobatic dancing when I was about 5 then went on to being a dancer on Christmas Pantomines until I was about 14. My father did not think it was a good idea for me to be a professional dancer so I had to quit. Thats when I started to do social dancing. I worked at a company that had about 6 branches in Liverpool, my home town, and they had a group in each one that would go to another branch each week and entertain them. Also at Xmas they would do Xmas Pantomines at their Social Club. So I did that until I came to the U.S.A. in 1958. I didn't do any dancing for about 20 years. Then I decided it was time for me to get back into dancing again. About 10 years ago I found Salsa and fell in love with it. It was like a new lease on life. I was never good at taking classes, and at that time there were no places to go for classes. So I learnt by just doing it on the dance floor. Now we have a great studio to learn from. I will never get a chance to be a professional dancer now, but I will always want to dance. To me life is not worth if I can't dance. It keeps me alive and in reasonable good health at my age. I think that's great.

I encourage everyone to keep on dancing , whether you are good or bad. It's a wonderful way to live you life.