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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It’s getting so you can’t turn around without encountering Zumba. You can already partake of the Latin-dance exercise craze at the Greater Carbondale YMCA, and last weekend saw the opening of Zumba ...

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 ...

Hip shaking and shoulder shimmying aren’t the moves many correlate with exercising, but with Zumba, a Latin rhythm-inspired workout program offered at the RPAC, students are dancing their way to ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 for Seniors is offered at 10:30 a.m. Monday, Wednesday and Friday at the East Central Community Center, 500 S. Stone St. There is no charge for the class, but participants are asked to pay a $10 ...