After working on Hip Shake Fitness for almost a year now, it has been a real roller coaster. I still can’t believe that what started as an idea in my head is now a reality. I am so grateful to have my life surrounded by dance AND to have been introduced to so many amazing…
What’s the best way to spend a Saturday night? Dancing to Bollywood Abs of course! I was lucky enough to be dancing again with the amazing Ashley and Hip Shake Fitness founder, Charlene aka my wonderful sister. So let’s go back on our blog time machine and check out some behind the scenes of our…
Belly Dance Trance is coming to Hip Shake Fitness soon. We were back at The Beat Box Studio for another 10 hour shoot, half of which was dedicated to Belly Dance Trance with Jacqui Wong. Let’s go back in time and shimmy through our behind the scenes of our Belly Dance Trance shoot day.
At every party, there’s one song that will get everyone on the dancefloor. That song happens to be This Is How We Do It by Montell Jordan and it also happens to be our newest YouTube tutorial dance video.
We have a fun dance challenge for all our Hip Shake Fitness members! Sign up now and get 30 days free with code “dancelaunch” and join the challenge.
Jacqui Wong So excited to introduce our newest Hip Shake Fitness instructor, Jacqui Wong. She will be teaching our Belly Dance series that we will start shooting this weekend! She is also a professional photographer and has graced many magazine pages and covers.
We are beyond excited to welcome Brazilian Warrior Workout to our dance category. This is a fitness workout version of an Afro-Brazilian dance, Maculele, that uses sticks or grimas which the dancers rhythmically strikes together. We can’t wait to see what our adventurous users choose as their grimas! For now, let’s go back to our…
One of the most versatile and fun dance is Old School Hip Hop. Everyone gets into it and you can use it in the club, the gym, the car or right at home. I’ve compiled the 5 best old school hip hop dance moves that you can pull out of your pockets at a party…
Old School Hip Hop dance is one of the most fun styles to ever hit the dance floor! We were back at The Beat Box Studio on a beautiful Los Angeles summer, ready to kick it old school with Ashley. Our girls got the look, the moves and the attitude down so let’s go behind the…
Jessica Carla De Lima-Moran Meet our Brazilian Warrior Workout instructor, Jessica or Pavão, a first generation Brazilian-American who fell deeply in love with Capoeira. As a result, she is the lead teacher at Capoeira Brasil Los Angeles and often travels to teach and perform her craft. What do you love about dance? I love the…
Dancing can make you feel young. These beautiful ladies feel like a million bucks just doing their thing! Get inspired to move and learn the lesson that age is NOTHING but a dang number. I assure you that by the end of this article, you’ll be grinning from ear to ear.
We are so lucky to work with strong and inspirational women here at Hip Shake Fitness. One of them is Ashley Chatman who was willing to share her transformation story to inspire others. Check it out:
K-Pop is a music genre that originated from South Korea. It’s popularity in the United States has increased over the years with it’s catchy sound, vibrant videos and mesmerizing choreography. There are so many K-Pop dance videos floating around the web so we compiled some of the best and easy to follow K-Pop dance videos.
Have you ever wanted to be in a Broadway musical? To be in a Broadway musical one of the things you need to know how to do is DANCE. I looked around YouTube to give you the best Broadway dance tutorials I could find. Get your jazz shoes ready and take a little trip with…
Last month we went back to The Beat Box Studios in Culver City to shoot our Dancehall Jam series with the lovely Zen! We’re so excited because this series involves some of our Kickstarter backers that wanted to be in our fitness workout videos. So let’s go back to our shoot day and check out…
Are you having a bad day? Or just in need of some cheering up? We’ve compiled 5 of our favorite inspirational dance videos that always puts a smile on our faces! We’ll count them down from a smirk to a full on tears of joy.
Where my ladies at?! Do you love dance parties? Do you love cardio? This is the one for you. Let’s go behind the scenes of our Flirty Hip Hop shoot. Get your Diva Pose ready and let your hair whip and come join the dance party!
I know you can’t get enough of our dreamy LA Latin instructor Matt Mancuso. And you came to the right place. Our first big shoot weekend was a month ago and we still smile thinking about it! Here’s exclusive behind the scenes action during our LA Latin shoot.
Broadway style dance will always have room in my heart and with the success of Hamilton, it is now getting a Hip Hop makeover. I was very excited to take a Broadway style dance class and what better day to take it than the day after the Tony Awards. I got even more excited when…
Did you know that Dancehall Jam is a unique dance style that you’ll only get from Hip Shake Fitness? If you are like me, I had no idea what Dancehall Jam is about. Dancehall is a genre of popular Jamaican music that was less political than Reggae. And Zen, our lovely instructor, incorporates her core…
Meet Shaun Arora, one of our amazing backers from Kickstarter, a dad and now an official dancer for Hip Shake Fitness! He is the GM at Make in LA where they are creating the Los Angeles epicenter of entrepreneurship focused 100% on hardware technologies. He helps startups thrive providing them with top notch programming and…
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