As Latin music throbs, Barbara Tuchman lifts her arms overhead while her husband, Russ Chalom, leads her through a salsa combination turn. But Tuchman spins a little too far away from her husband.

The band strikes up the rumba, and the dance floor in Kinshasa fills with couples who sway to its slinky, sensual rhythm. Rumba has an international following, especially for its brassy Cuban version.

Born among black slaves on sugar plantations, Cuba's rumba has since become a national icon almost as renown as its cigars or amateur boxers and two years ago was designated by UNESCO as an intangible ...

Here's your chance to dance with a star. Emmy Award-winning dancer and Orem native Chelsie Hightower will teach a Latin dance workshop in conjunction with DF Dance Studio in South Salt Lake this ...

Kinshasa (AFP) – The United Nations' cultural agency UNESCO on Tuesday added the Congolese rumba dance to its intangible cultural heritage list, sparking delight in the Democratic Republic of Congo ...