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 ...

Horns blare, drums pound, timbales keep time while 40 women shake, shimmy and swivel in unison. Whoops and hollers ring out as a petite redhead with the best abs on the planet leads the women through ...

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, ...

A heavy salsa beat pulses through the room where women of all ages and sizes move to the rhythms of the Latin-inspired music. An instructor stands at the front, pumping up the energy with calls to ...

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 ...

The popular Latin music-inspired fitness program has moved into strength training and step aerobics, and has even added some kickbox and bootcamp moves with the newer class formats. What started with ...

If it wasn't for the workout clothes and a lot of sweat, it would be easy to confuse a Zumba exercise class at All-Skate Fun Center, 1313 W. North St., with a dance party. In the center of the wooden ...

Zumba%2C the Latin-inspired dance workout%2C was created in the late 1990s It%27s one of the top fitness trends Zumba classes are now offered in 125 countries in 110%2C000 locations This story appears ...

Zumba is to the 21st Century what the Macarena was to the ’90s — except it brings even more and more people to Latin music. And it does it through emotion. That’s what Zumba Fitness’ founders told ...

The biggest workout craze of 2012, according to our friends over at Google? The Latin-inspired dance craze known as Zumba, which has won over celebs like Jennifer Lopez and Giuliana Rancic and taken ...

If it wasn’t for the movie “Grease,” a dot-com failure, a mother’s advice, nearly running out of money, a key change in a business model and a boost by the celebrity Pitbull and his pals, one of the ...

FILE - This Aug. 9, 2012 file photo released by Starpix shows Zumba creator Beto Perez performing at the 2012 Zumbathon Fitness Concert on the first day of the 2012 Zumba Instructor Convention in ...