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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Before Zumba became a global dance fitness sensation, it was gaining steam in 2001 as a "rhumba-cise" class in Aventura that ...

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 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… ...

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.

At the Virgin Active gym in London's Broadgate, 30-odd women are being taught to shimmy. "Arriba!" ("Upwards!") squeals Margarete, undeterred by the stiffness of her students' efforts as, with varying ...

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 ...