Some describe the retro-inspired dance class Pony Sweat as Richard Simmons aerobics but more punk. Or they say it’s like dancing in your bedroom with all your friends. Others explain it as just plain ...

Richeson, a “queer punk ray of sunshine,” according to a press release, started attending Simmons’s dance classes when she first moved to L.A. in 2006. “He’s been such a huge influence on me. He ...

EVEN NIA instructors have a hard time explaining what NIA is. “NIA has to be experienced,” says East Bay instructor Danielle Woermann. “It is a fusion fitness,” explains San Rafael instructor ...

Instructor: Janet Pyle, of Boulder. Pyle has been teaching Jacki’s Aerobics since 1986. Before, she was a student. Pyle’s fitness background includes hiking and golf. She was a cheerleader in junior ...

The very first choreographed class I walked into at the former Kalispell Athletic Club years ago, some highly danceable music, in particular INXS, was blasting out of the speakers — there was no ...

A bubbly ball of energy in a crop top, ’80s-style hot pants and platinum mullet, Emilia Richeson-Valiente shakes her hips to the B-52’s’ “Private Idaho” inside a studio space at Live Arts Los Angeles ...

LANCASTER - Last year, Olivedale Senior Center line dancing instructor Betty Coleman said I have rhythm, but that I just hadn't found it yet. Well, after completing an aerobics/Zumba class last week ...