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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

The high-energy dance classes are all the rage, but some critics are taking issue with the fitness craze being labeled as Latin dance. Authentic... Zumba Is A Hit, But Is It Latin? Zumba isn't just a ...

As their hips swivel, vibrating to the salsa beat, these movers and shakers are like Elvis gone Latin. There's a whole lotta shaking going on, as arms windmill and feet flamenco. But this isn't the ...