WB-boying first swept New York in the 70s, legend held that street gangs used breakdancing as an alternative to fighting. Thirty years on, in another of America's great cities, competitive dancing is ...

It's early evening in the middle of the week in a Salt Lake City nightclub. Like many nightclubs, it's dark and deserted midweek. But once inside the door, you find complete chaos, a clamoring from ...

When Jamal “Litebulb” Oliver started dancing in the Footwork scene, the Chicago-born style had just made its way to YouTube. Now, at least for a night, it’s at the Museum of Contemporary Art. The ...

Those three words comprise the mantra that the members of the Era Footwork Collective live by. The local group—also known as the Era Footwork Crew—consists of four dancers and two producers who helped ...

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Amherst dancers took to battle Sunday at the Footwork Frenzy all-styles battle event hosted by the traveling dance crew, Chicago Footworkology. The event was free to attend for all ages and was held ...

In small corners of the globe, dancers are putting the pedal to the floor. In L.A. there's krumping. In Detroit, jit. In the South African town of Soweto, shangaan. All these types of dancing have one ...

DO BALKAN DANCE long enough, and you not only have the potential to learn hundreds of dances; you also learn to count in many languages — Croatian, Serbian, Romanian and Macedonian, among others.

Since the mid-'90s, a style of dance and a genre of music that share the name footwork have been livening up parties and late-night public access TV in Chicago. Now footwork is reaching beyond its ...