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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The international workout program of Zumba that began in the '90s uses music and dance moves from all sorts of genres and cultures. This Zumba-style Salsa Lunge works your quads, glutes, hamstrings, ...

Music pumped and hips swiveled as Candi and Bob Muro led an enthusiastic group of dancers through another Friday night salsa session at their Platinum Salsa dance company. The sultry dance, which ...

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 ...

I can’t deny that I felt a little ridiculous shaking my hips violently in front of my TV set the first time I did this workout (the quick workout to be exact, since I thought that was all I could ...

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 ...

WGN-TV‘s Jewell Hillery says the dance floor is, by far, one of her happy places. So for this edition of Jewell’s Jems on Sunday’s WGN Weekend Morning News, Jewell welcomes Lisa “La Boriqua,” who’s ...

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