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 ...

THE GIST: Zumba® steps it up a gear. Literally. It’s the class you know and love: same infectious Latino rhythms, same Shakira impression in the mirrors (admit it), but incorporating elements of old ...

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? Part of that resentment comes from ...

A sweaty crowd, loud Latin music, and sporadic cheering — no, it’s not a Pitbull concert, it’s Zumba. The fitness craze that started in the 1990s is still going strong as millions of people around the ...

Today, Alberto Perlman, 41, is CEO of the world’s largest branded fitness program, Zumba Fitness. But before he co-founded Zumba, he was an unemployed 24-year-old. In 2001, Perlman was still reeling ...