All are clients of Rudy Lopez, a Chappaqua resident who is a hairstylist, boxing teacher, ballroom dance instructor, sometime math tutor, occasional actor, former stand-up comic, father of six and owner of Rudy's, a loft in downtown Mount Kisco that redefines the notion of one-stop shopping.
Ms. Kaplan, a former ballroom dance instructor and pro golfer, was enthralled by the youthfulness of the city's nightlife.
She took a job as a ballroom dance instructor and became interested in what she calls "primitive cultures," reading about voodoo at the American Museum of Natural History.
He was born in Atlanta in 1906 and as a youth moved to Chicago, where he became a ballroom dancing instructor and a printer's apprentice.
It was not until she and Mr. Kaplan divorced in the late 1960s that Ms. Kaplan moved to New York, finding work as a ballroom dance instructor and as a framer in an art gallery.
Madina Musina, a 24-year-old ballroom dance instructor, said she voted for the new constitution because she favors a parliamentary system, after seeing two presidents — Askar Akayev and Kurmanbek Bakiyev — so anger their citizens they were overthrown.
Originally from New Jersey, she moved to New York City after divorcing her second husband, and trained as a ballroom dancing instructor before being offered the opportunity to travel to Mali, which ignited her interest in Africa.
After her second divorce in the late 1960s, she moved to New York, became a ballroom dance instructor and began indulging a passion for what she called "primitive cultures," traveling to Mali and other exotic destinations in search of the woodcarvings and fabrics from which she made her eye-catching designs.
According to ABC News, Haslet-Davis, a ballroom dance instructor at the Arthur Murray Studios in Boston, was attending the marathon as a spectator with her husband, airman Adam Davis, who had just gotten back from Afghanistan.
Mr. Marrero, 56, is an independent ballroom-dancing instructor who gives lessons in various locations in San Francisco.
