She travels all over the United States, Europe, Asia and Africa,
presenting her Kukuwa Dance Workouts. She also teaches muscle
sculpting classes and has centers in the US, Asia, Europe and
Africa. Check her website (se below) for locations and her
schedule.
Experts say that dance-style workout are hot and new ones spring
up constantly. Over 100 people have passed the Kukuwa instructor
certification course and teach hundreds of classes weekly in the
Washington, DC area, as well as in Japan and Spain. A few cruise
lines offer packages for Kukuwa fans.
On Kukuwa's website, she sells exercise gear printed with
African symbols, and at least 10,000 copies of her DVDs have
been sold on Amazon.com and other sites.
For Kukuwa, this is not overnight thing--she's been working on
it seriously for at least 10 years. Strangely, she never studied
dance. She just copied traditional dances and made up her own,
winning several dance competitions.
At 16 years of age, she left for work in the Ivory Coast, then
on to Paris for college studies. In 1980, she moved to
Washington and worked as a French-English translator at the
World Bank, giving funk dance classes to co-workers. As she
moved to New jersey and New York, she kept up her dance classes,
teaching in community centers and even in her basement. People
loved it. They were losing weight and staying in shape.
A few years later, she wrote a manual for her workout so she
could hire instructors. She also needed a slogan to describe
shaking their rear ends and found a Caribbean word for the
derriere--"boombsey."
So, don't be surprised if in the near future you see people at
your local YMCA having a good time shaking their boombseys!
More Info.
website:
www.kukuwadanceworkout.com
Phone: 703-307-3918 or 1-866-9KUKUWA