From the activity decks of cruise ships to breast cancer awareness walks in Belgium, Zumba Fitness’ explosion onto the cultural arena over the last 10 years has created a mini empire. The company ...

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 ...

TEAYS VALLEY -- Two years ago, Tauletha Chaffin weighed 220 pounds. She began watching the type of food she was consuming and the size of the portions, and she started Zumba classes. Now 85 pounds ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — 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 Omar ...

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.

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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 ...

Beneath glinting disco balls and festive decor, illuminated by multicolored strobe lights, the group ― all beaming, glistening with sweat ― are caught up in hip-shaking, body-swirling dance moves. But ...

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 ...

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… ...

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, ...

For many, exercising is a chore. But thanks to Zumba, it doesn't have to be. By Kenneth Partridge Although the dance-fitness program Zumba encompasses numerous styles of music and movement, its roots ...