Kim Martin reached her breaking point when she realized she couldn't even sit on the sofa with her youngest daughter. She always had struggled with her weight, which always had fluctuated, and having ...

Jenn Rupp, 34, co-owner and instructor for NOLA Danze Fuzion (zumbanola.com), demonstrates the merengue, one of the many dance fitness steps in the wildly popular Zumba repertoire. “Zumba has been ...

Some of the girls in the two lines of tweens and young teens giggled self-consciously as instructor Judy Saunders swiveled her hips. But they complied and followed her dance moves. For most of the 16 ...

The Elite Stars Dance Academy on Williamsbridge Road hosts the classes. Freddy and Maria Dibartolo, a married couple from the Bronx, say they just love it. "We can't stop, we follow her everywhere,” ...

Life gets more fun in the summer — it's just a fact. The sun sets later, beach days and rooftop hangs make a comeback, and you get to bring out all those flowery 'fits that have been collecting dust ...

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 ...

Blood-pumping Latin music, the tinkle of belly dancing charms and a room full of sweaty women laughing and dancing to the beat. It’s not what you’d expect when walking into a church. But that’s what ...

Every Monday and Tuesday for the past five years, hundreds of Sunset residents have made their way to the Sunset Park Recreation Center to participate in a popular Zumba dance class. Due to the ...

If it wasn’t for the movie “Grease,” a dot-com failure, a mother’s advice, nearly running out of money, a key change in a business model and a boost by the celebrity Pitbull and his pals, one of the ...