LITTLE ROCK — The founders of Zumba, the Latin dance fitness craze, know how to play the marketing game. Just as a fast-food chain must invent original ways to combine ingredients to generate new ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — If your exercise routine is humdrum, boring and getting you down — there’s hope in sight! Though workouts are healthy, rewarding and benefit the body — they’ve truly never been ...

As a young woman, Lupita Cohen was a frequent visitor to dance clubs in her native New York City. When she married and had a family, dancing took a back seat to carpools and PTA meetings. Two years ...

SAGINAW TWP. — A new fitness craze called “Zumba” isn’t just good for toning bodies. The Latin-based aerobic dance workout is boosting attendance and profits for many fitness centers, gyms and ...

Amy Ash leads a Zumba class in February 2010 at Lawrence Gymnastics Academy’s Dance and Cheer Studio, 5150 Clinton Parkway. Ash, an attorney and social worker, said she held off a diabetes diagnosis ...

ALTHOUGH I’VE tried organized dance a number of times, I usually feel like a donkey on the dance floor. I have a severe aversion to looking stupid. So when I decided to take my first Zumba class, I ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — Music pulses from the stereo as more than two dozen swimsuit-clad women move their hips, shimmy and twist. They listen as the instructor tells them to smile, give attitude and ...

Zumba is a new fitness-dance phenomenon, which is taking over the Maltese summer with a mix of different Latin American dancing styles. It is a fusion of Latin and international music turned into a ...

You think you know these vital parts of your body fairly well. You take them to yoga class, you take them for walks, you talk pretty to them. But one Zumba class later and you realize something’s been ...

WHITEHOUSE STATION — Join Yong Cedro and Deirdre Anderson as they "rock the house" and raise money for America's Grow-a-Row at a Zumba fundraiser 2-4:30 p.m. Feb. 6 at Ludo's Ballroom (above the ...

Zumba is fun but not for the shy. This class, normally taught by Lisa Gillombardo was taught by Katie Pylypiak. She is a certified Zumba instructor who tried the exercise in college and fell in love ...

In his blue technician’s coat and safety glasses, Pierre Howard helps keep cars in motion by teaching auto mechanics at Norfolk Technical Center. And with a quick change into cherry drawstring pants, ...