CHESAPEAKE -- "You are magnificent!" are the words colorfully painted across the backs of several women attending Zumba at Chesapeake Community Center. These words are attributed to Beto Perez, ...

Instructor Natalia Carpenter helps the Zumba class participants elevate their heart rates. Cheryl Polacheck, in the foreground, and Karen Gingrich were among the exercisers who showed up for the first ...

The pulse of Latin rhythms can be heard as you turn the corner. The beat is infectious and you want to start tapping your foot. Maybe even start to dance. That’s the beauty of Zumba Gold, a fitness ...

The second I walked into my local Zumba class for the first time, I felt a twinge of embarrassment — I was the youngest person there by decades. Did I really belong? But I figured I’d give it a try ...

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 ...

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 ...