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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A great dance workout lifts your spirits while torching calories, and Latin dance definitely fits that bill. Equinox instructor Nicole Steen leads this high energy dance class — she will keep you ...

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 ...

If it wasn't for the workout clothes and a lot of sweat, it would be easy to confuse a Zumba exercise class at All-Skate Fun Center, 1313 W. North St., with a dance party. In the center of the wooden ...

Cardio is more than just running on a treadmill! This Latin-dance workout proves you can get your heart rate up while shaking your hips and shimmying your shoulders. Nicole Steen, a cardio dance ...

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 ...

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 ...