Instructor: Ashley Patchen started teaching herself hip hop in upstate New York. She moved to Colorado for graduate school and fell in love with Latin dance, taking salsa and bachata classes. She’s ...

STUTTGART, Germany -- For an evening out with Latin music and dancing, all Stuttgart military community members need to do is stop by the gym. They may want to trade their dancing shoes for trainers, ...

In her forties, Michele Perron didn't realize how stiff she had gotten until she went to her first Zumba class. The Zumba approach features dance movements to Latin rhythms, including a lot of hip ...

Zumba, created in the mid-90s by fitness trainer Beto Perez, is a concept of Latin-inspired dance fitness which fuses Latin rhythms and easy-to-follow moves to create a one-of-a-kind fitness program ...

It’s Friday evening at the Higashi Honganji Buddhist Temple in downtown Los Angeles, but there’s no Zen quiet here. Instead, Latin-inflected hip-hop thumps from a basement room, where about 30 men and ...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) - Zumba Fitness instructors worldwide are not only using a Latin-heavy song lineup in their classes, they're also creating new fans for artists such as Pitbull, Daddy Yankee and Don ...

As Zumba organizers hold their biggest members-only party in Orlando this week to promote Zumba techniques and music, here is the full menu of Zumba styles taking off in gyms and studios around the ...

CORAL GABLES, Fla. — On a rooftop parking lot, with temperatures in the chilly low 50s, a crowd of all ages shimmied and shook, sweated and smiled as DJ Francis played an eclectic mix of dance music.

The deep bass and hypnotic drumbeats beg students to shake and shimmy. In the wood-floored studio at Dance Dynamix in Tempe, the song booming from the sound system shouts: “Are you ready?” AUDIO ...

Life gets more fun in the summer — it's just a fact. The sun sets later, beach days and rooftop hangs make a comeback, and you get to bring out all those flowery 'fits that have been collecting dust ...

Zumba dancing is more effective than salsa to help inactive women get healthier. In a study by Kingston University and the University of the West of Scotland, 24 healthy women aged 22-56, who usually ...

It's the trendy dance routine and fitness craze that has taken the world by storm and includes the 'Goddess of Pop' Cher among its allegiance of fans. But scientists have now revealed Zumba - a ...